Lumilens is hiring a VP of FP&A to build and lead the company’s financial planning and operational finance function. You will translate the company’s strategic plan into operational budgets, forecasts, and financial insights, focusing on partnering with key teams to drive profitability and efficiency.
What You'll Do
- Help drive the company’s annual operating plan and quarterly forecasting process.
- Translate the company’s strategic financial plan into department budgets and operating targets.
- Maintain financial models to support revenue growth, margin expansion, and scaling operations.
- Drive forecasting accuracy and financial discipline across the company.
- Build a finance business partner function aligned with key operating teams and act as a co-pilot to VP-Manufacturing.
- Help operating leaders understand the financial implications of operational decisions.
- Support planning for hiring, product development, manufacturing ramps, and customer demand.
- Lead financial governance for contract manufacturers and outsourced production partners.
- Review and negotiate cost structures, pricing models, and volume commitments.
- Ensure alignment between contract manufacturer economics and company margin objectives.
- Lead financial evaluation of manufacturing capital investments.
- Monitor CapEx spending vs approved budgets.
- Ensure post-investment performance reviews.
- Implement and maintain strong manufacturing financial controls.
- Strengthen controls around procurement, production and contract manufacturing.
- Define and maintain the company’s operational and financial metrics.
- Develop dashboards and reporting to track performance against plan.
- Lead variance analysis and identify key financial and operational risk.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and cost optimization.
- Provide analytical support for key operational and strategic decisions, including product ramps, manufacturing scale, pricing and margin evolution, and resource allocation.
- Work cross-functionally to help leadership make data-driven decisions.
- Hire and develop a small team of FP&A analysts over time.
- Implement scalable planning processes and tools.
- Establish a consistent cadence of planning, forecasting, and financial reviews.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A or operational finance.
- Experience in hardware, semiconductor, or manufacturing-driven businesses.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities.
- Experience partnering with engineering, operations, or supply chain teams.
- Demonstrated ability to build finance processes in a rapidly scaling company.
Team & Environment
Will report to the future CFO and work closely with the CEO and executive team.
