14 Oct
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DRMERS CLUB
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Vancouver
14 Oct
DRMERS CLUB
Vancouver
___ ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Manager to become DRMERS CLUB’s first in-house finance hire and help build the company’s financial operating system from the ground up. This is a highly analytical and high-ownership role focused on helping the business make smarter decisions across cash flow, inventory, marketing spend, retail growth, and profitability. You’ll work closely with the CEO and cross-functional teams to improve forecasting, financial visibility, operational planning, and overall business performance as the company continues to scale.
This is not a traditional accounting role. We’re looking for someone who can think like an operator — someone who naturally identifies inefficiencies, builds systems, creates clarity from numbers, and helps guide better business decisions through financial insight. ___ RESPONSIBILITIES FINANCIAL PLANNING + REPORTING - Build, refine, and maintain financial reporting and planning systems - Create weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting cadences - Build financial models to support forecasting and business decision-making - Track performance against forecasts, prior periods, and historical trends - Conduct variance analysis across revenue, margins, operating expenses, and profitability - Identify risks, opportunities, and key business insights through financial analysis - Translate financial data into transparent recommendations for leadership - Build and maintain rolling cash flow forecasts - Provide visibility into cash position, runway, and upcoming cash needs - Support decisions around inventory purchasing, marketing spend, retail growth,
and operational investments - Model the financial impact of major business decisions - Help leadership plan proactively instead of reactively - Build inventory planning and purchasing models - Partner with Operations to align inventory purchasing with demand forecasts and cash flow - Support open-to-buy planning and reorder decisionsImprove visibility into stock levels, sell-through, inventory at cost, and purchasing needs - Identify opportunities to reduce overstock, stockouts, and cash inefficiencies - Build models to track MER, contribution margin, SKU profitability, and product performance - Support marketing and ecommerce teams with financial visibility around ad spend efficiency - Identify high-performing products, margin opportunities, and profitable growth drivers - Connect marketing performance to overall business profitability FORECASTING + STRATEGIC PLANNING - Build best-case, base-case, and worst-case business forecasts - Model growth scenarios tied to inventory, marketing spend, retail expansion, and operating expenses - Support quarterly planning, annual planning, and monthly business reviews - Provide forward-looking insights and recommendations to leadership CROSS-FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT - Work directly with the CEO on financial planning and strategic decision-making - Partner with Operations, Marketing, Ecommerce, and Retail teams to improve visibility and reporting - Collaborate with external bookkeeping and accounting partners to ensure accurate financial data - Help build stronger systems and reporting processes across the company ___ WHO YOU ARE - 5+ years of experience in FP&A;, strategic finance, corporate finance, consulting,
transaction advisory, or investment banking - Strong financial modeling skills in Excel and/or Google Sheets - Comfortable building models from scratch, not just maintaining templates - Strong understanding of cash flow, margins, inventory, operating expenses, and working capital - Highly analytical with strong attention to detail - Able to turn financial data into actionable business insights - Comfortable working in a fast-paced, growing company environment - Strong communicator who can explain financial concepts clearly to non-finance teams - Proactive, organized, and ownership-minded - Interested in ecommerce, retail, fashion, or consumer brands ___ STRONG PLUS - Experience in ecommerce, retail, fashion, or consumer products - Experience with inventory-heavy businesses - Experience supporting inventory purchasing, marketing spend, or retail expansion decisions - Experience with Shopify, QuickBooks, Triple Whale, Lifetimely, NetSuite, or similar tools - Experience building dashboards or automating reporting - Background in Big 4, investment banking, transaction advisory, startups, or consumer brands ___ COMPENSATION + PERKS - Salary: $100,000–$140,000 CAD based on experience - 5–10% annual performance bonus tied to company profitability and strategic milestones - Clothing allowance - Extended health benefits - Hybrid work environment - Opportunity to become the first in-house finance hire at a rapidly growing fashion brand - Direct exposure to CEO-level decision-making across growth, inventory, retail, marketing, and operations - Opportunity to build the finance function from the ground up - High-impact role with strong growth potential as the company scales - Collaborative, ambitious, and fast-moving team environment ___
📌 FINANCE MANAGER — VANCOUVER, BC (IN PERSON)
🏢 DRMERS CLUB
📍 Vancouver