About us: Daring is one of the few scaled plant-based brands that has broken through with a clean-label, high-protein product consumers continuously repeat-purchase.
Daring is a wholly owned subsidiary of v2food, an Australia-based global company on a mission to feed the planet in a way that takes care of the planet. The company is strategically partnered with Ajinomoto, the international Japanese ingredient company.
About the role: Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer of v2food Group, the Finance Manager is responsible for the company’s financial planning cycle and operational analysis. You will translate complex data into actionable insights for the Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams, ensuring the company scales profitably across wholesale, and retail channels. The Finance Manager is forward-looking, driving growth through Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), commercial partnership, and margin optimization.
Key Accountabilities:
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the annual budgeting process and manage monthly rolling forecasts.
- Identify risks and opportunities versus the strategic plan.
- Commercial Finance Partnership: Act as a dedicated finance partner to the Sales and Marketing teams, as well as the CEO of Daring Foods. Analyze the ROI of trade spend, marketing, and promotional activities.
- Profitability Analysis: Conduct deep-dive SKU-level and channel-level profitability analysis. Evaluate gross margins, landed costs, and the impact of shipping/logistics on the bottom line.
- Cash Flow & Working Capital Modelling: Maintain sophisticated 13-week cash flow forecasts to ensure liquidity for inventory purchasing and expansion initiatives.
- Management & Board Reporting: Develop and maintain executive dashboards, monthly reporting and KPIs, to monitor business performance and synthesize complex data into high-level strategic takeaways for all Stakeholder levels.
- Strategic Support: Provide financial modelling for new product launches (NPD), geographic expansion, and other ad hoc analysis.
What success looks like:
In your first 6–12 months, you will:
- Build a forecasting model that leadership uses to run the business weekly
- Identify and unlock margin improvements across key SKUs and channels
- Bring discipline to trade spend and promotional ROI
- Support critical decisions on pricing, innovation, and expansion
About You:
Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:
- Passion for the creation of new and exciting products
- Self-starter who is naturally curious and enjoys working in a fast-paced innovation centric environment
- Exceptional communicator with strong presentation and relationship-building abilities
- Interest in plant-based, better-for-you foods and a desire to shake up the status quo
- Proven ability to collaborate with peers and others to achieve shared objectives.Position Description
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Accounting; Post graduate (CPA, MBA, etc) highly desirable but not essential.
- 5+ years of experience in finance, with at least 3 years specifically in FP&A within the consumer products or retail sector.
- Mastery of advanced financial modelling (eg. Excel), proficiency with BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and ERP systems (e.g. NetSuite). Demonstrated experience with driving efficiency with AI tools also an advantage.
- Exceptional ability to "tell the story" behind the numbers to non-finance stakeholders, including Executive level.
Daring's Company Values:
- People and the Planet First
- We Win and Lose Together
- We Raise the Bar
- We are Fast on our Feet
- We Talk It Out
Social Responsibility:
We strive to make a meaningful difference by ensuring our business practices respect human rights, promote diversity and inclusion, and support the communities in which we operate. All roles across v2food have the opportunity to contribute to projects that make a difference and we welcome all thoughts and ideas to enhance our social responsibility.
Environmental Sustainability:
Our commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our mission. From reducing carbon emissions to minimising waste, all roles across v2food play a role in promoting sustainable practices. We are focused on improving the overall environmental footprint of our business operations, ensuring that we adhere to sustainable sourcing and reduce the impact on the planet’s natural resources. All positions at v2food are expected to play a role in promoting sustainability practices and we welcome your ideas and insights into how we can continue to improve our practices.
V2food seek to lead the way in integrating both social and environmental responsibility into the core of our strategy, ensuring that future generations can thrive in a better, more sustainable world.
General comments/other requirements:
Expectation to be able to work independently with the freedom to make decisions. This is a remote role, with preference for being located on the West Coast. Daring has a Southern California office, so Hybrid is an option.
