Hadley Designs is a family-founded brand redefining early education through creativity, beauty, and connection. As a Finance Business Partner, you will own the full finance function, building scalable systems and managing financial strategy to support the company's growth towards $100M and beyond.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver accurate, audit-ready financials by the 20th of each month with full account reconciliation and zero material errors
- Build and maintain a 12-month rolling cash forecast, updated weekly, ensuring perfect liquidity and visibility
- Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process across all departments with ≤10% variance between forecast and actual results
- Develop automated systems and workflows that reduce manual reporting time by at least 25% within your first year
- Partner with leadership to implement initiatives that increase profitability and improve EBITDA by 2 percentage points in your first 12 months
- Create and document SOPs for close, forecasting, cash flow, and reporting processes
- Implement new systems for expense management, travel, and purchasing by Month 6
- Produce insightful financial dashboards and KPIs that drive better decision-making
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Operations to align growth, cash flow, and inventory planning
- Evaluate technology solutions (ERP, reporting tools) that prepare the company for scale
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance (MBA or CPA strongly preferred)
- 5+ years of progressive experience in finance or accounting, including 3+ years in leadership
- Proven success in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
- Experience implementing scalable systems and automation in growing organizations
- Strong knowledge of GAAP, compliance, and tax standards
- Proficiency with tools such as Xero, QuickBooks, or advanced Excel/Google Sheets
- Excellent analytical and communication skills; you turn complexity into clarity
- Collaborative mindset and the confidence to influence executive-level decisions
- Experience in e-commerce or multi-channel retail