Reports to: CFO
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Compensation: The base salary for this role begins at $200,000; final offer will be determined based on experience and scope.
About PATH
PATH is on a mission to create a sustainable future by becoming the go-to bottled water brand that helps break the addiction to single-use plastic. As global consumer demand for sustainable and reusable packaging continues to grow, PATH is leading the way with innovative solutions that make a difference.
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Director of Finance to lead FP&A and serve as a key strategic partner to the CFO and leadership team. This role will own financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and strategic analysis across the business, helping guide decision-making in a fast-paced, high-growth CPG environment.
This is a highly visible leadership role that blends hands-on financial modeling with strategic business partnership. The ideal candidate is both analytical and operational—capable of building scalable FP&A infrastructure while also delivering insights that drive growth, profitability, and operational discipline.
As a key member of the finance organization, this individual will help shape how PATH plans, measures, and executes against its growth objectives.
Why PATH?
We offer competitive benefits for all full-time team members, including:
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. PATH does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination under Federal law. For more information, please see EEO is the Law.
Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. While the range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, the final offer amount will depend on the factors listed above.
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Compensation: The base salary for this role begins at $200,000; final offer will be determined based on experience and scope.
About PATH
PATH is on a mission to create a sustainable future by becoming the go-to bottled water brand that helps break the addiction to single-use plastic. As global consumer demand for sustainable and reusable packaging continues to grow, PATH is leading the way with innovative solutions that make a difference.
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Director of Finance to lead FP&A and serve as a key strategic partner to the CFO and leadership team. This role will own financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and strategic analysis across the business, helping guide decision-making in a fast-paced, high-growth CPG environment.
This is a highly visible leadership role that blends hands-on financial modeling with strategic business partnership. The ideal candidate is both analytical and operational—capable of building scalable FP&A infrastructure while also delivering insights that drive growth, profitability, and operational discipline.
As a key member of the finance organization, this individual will help shape how PATH plans, measures, and executes against its growth objectives.
Why PATH?
We offer competitive benefits for all full-time team members, including:
- 401k with a 6% employer match
- Flexible Time Off policy
- 12 company holidays + year-end company shutdown
- Communications and wellness stipends
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Flexible Time Off Policy
- Executive Partnership: Partners with CFO to develop and implement goals, policies, priorities, financial strategy, and procedures in regards to financial and cross departmental management.
- FP&A Leadership: Lead the company's FP&A processes, architecting multi-year financial roadmaps and agile forecasting models that drive informed executive decision-making.
- Strategic Advisory: Serve as a trusted financial advisor to executive leadership and department heads, providing critical financial insights, variance analysis, and recommendations to drive performance and achieve strategic goals.
- Financial Modeling: Lead management of sophisticated financial models (e.g., P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, unit economics, business unit) to support strategic initiatives and scenario planning.
- Sales Forecasting: Manage multi-channel sales forecasts and collaborate with the sales team leaders to ensure accuracy and adherence to revenue growth expectations.
- Reporting & Analytics: Oversee the preparation and presentation of comprehensive financial reports, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to the executive team highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Performance Optimization: Identify opportunities for cost optimization, revenue enhancement, and process improvements.
- Fiscal Governance: Evaluate contracts and proposals to ensure fiscal alignment and policy compliance, partnering with cross-functional leads to provide financial sign-off and strategic recommendations.
- System Innovation: Drive the continuous improvement of FP&A systems, tools, and processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, including AI.
- Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Cultivate robust cross-departmental partnerships to streamline information flow and embed financial discipline into broader organizational operations.
- Strategic Financial Engineering: Expert-level mastery in architecting sophisticated, integrated financial frameworks (P&L, Cash Flow, Unit Economics) from the ground up; transforming static models into "digital twins" of the business to stress-test assumptions and steer capital allocation.
- Predictive Insight & Narrative Synthesis: A proven ability to move beyond "what happened" to "what is coming." You must excel at distilling granular, complex data into high-level strategic narratives that identify hidden margin levers and provide the C-suite with clear, actionable roadmaps.
- Digital Transformation & AI Integration: A forward-thinking architect of the finance tech stack, with a track record of implementing automated BI tools to drive organizational scalability, precision, and real-time visibility - preferably on the cutting edge of AI technologies.
- Advanced Scenario Stress-Testing: Sophisticated ability to model and interpret the financial impact of volatile market variables; specialized in pressure-testing CPG-specific drivers like channel mix shifts and pricing strategies to insulate EBITDA and optimize enterprise valuation.
- Cross-Functional Stewardship: Proven ability to embed financial discipline and "ownership mindsets" across non-finance departments on multi-channel revenue growth.
- Process Engineering: A track record of developing and implementing robust financial policies and procedures that maintain agility while ensuring institutional compliance.
- CPG Leadership: 12+ years of progressive finance experience, with a significant tenure in CPG.
- Sector Mastery: Deep expertise in CPG-specific financial drivers, including margin structure optimization, trade spend efficiency, pricing elasticity, and complex distribution economics including broadline and DSD.
- Scaling Success: A proven track record of architecting financial infrastructure and strategy within rapidly scaling organizations ($100M+ ARR preferred).
- C-Suite Partnership: Extensive experience serving as a key advisor to the CFO and Executive Team, with the ability to translate complex financial datasets into high-stakes business narratives and actionable insights.
- Executive Presence: Exceptional communication skills with the poise to lead Board-level presentations and drive cross-functional departments towards collective company financial goals.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: High comfort level operating in ambiguous, fast-paced, and evolving environments; a builder who thrives on creating structure.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. PATH does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination under Federal law. For more information, please see EEO is the Law.
Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. While the range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, the final offer amount will depend on the factors listed above.