The role:

CookUnity is redefining the way people experience food at home by connecting independent chefs with customers through a unique, chef-to-consumer platform. As the Senior Director / Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), you will serve as a key strategic partner to the CFO and executive team, bringing financial discipline, forward-looking insights, and deep business understanding to help scale a vertically integrated, multi-marketplace business. This role requires a hands-on and data-driven executive who can lead a high-performing FP&A team, partner cross-functionally with senior leadership, and provide financial insights that shape the company’s strategy.

📍 Location Note: Please note that this is a hybrid role based out of our Brooklyn headquarters.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the corporate financial planning processes, long-range planning, and rolling forecasts.
• Serve as a thought partner to the CFO and executive leadership, offering actionable insights on business performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Build and maintain strategic financial models and scenario analyses that inform decisions across pricing strategy, capacity planning, culinary investment, new market expansion, and customer LTV/CAC tradeoffs.
• Own company-wide financial dashboards and KPIs, ensuring timely, accurate reporting on business performance.
• Present financial results, forecasts, and business drivers to the executive team and board of directors.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing FP&A team.
• Drive automation, scalability, and rigor in FP&A systems and processes, enabling faster decision-making across a complex operational model.
• Partner with leaders across Culinary, Growth, Product, Operations, and Supply Chain to align resource planning with business priorities and deliver financial accountability.
• Support go-to-market strategy, resource planning, and pricing decisions with rigorous financial analysis.
• Partner with the accounting team to ensure alignment on reporting, close processes, and variance analysis.

Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required.
• MBA, CFA preferred.

Leadership & Personal Characteristics

• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and high intellectual horsepower.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to simplify complex data into compelling narratives for executives.
• Operates with a high degree of integrity and ownership.
• Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a bias for action.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and leading through change.

Success Metrics

• Timely, accurate, and insightful financial forecasts and performance reporting.
• Strategic impact on key business decisions.
• Scalable FP&A processes and systems implemented.
• Engagement and development of a high-performing FP&A team.
• Improved financial transparency and alignment across departments.

Learn More About CookUnity

We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we’re looking for, we invite you to explore CookUnity’s Leadership Principles – The values and behaviors that guide how we operate, collaborate, and scale.

We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and product vision. If this excites you, we’d love to connect!

Benefits

🩺 Health Insurance coverage

🌅 401k Plan

📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1

🌟 Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus

⛱ Unlimited PTO

🗓️ 5-year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical

🐣 Paid Family leave

🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises

🥘 A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly

🧘🏽‍♀️ Wellness perks: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle

👩🏾‍🏫 Personalized Spanish coach

🌟 Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!