Overview
Strategic Finance Manager Jobs in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada at DRMERS CLUB
Title: Strategic Finance Manager
Company: DRMERS CLUB
Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
STRATEGIC FINANCE MANAGER — DRMERS CLUB
Location: Vancouver, BC
Type: Full-Time
Work Style: Hybrid
Start Date: ASAP
Reports To: CEO
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ABOUT THE BRAND
DRMERS CLUB is a fast-growing lifestyle fashion brand rooted in storytelling, intentional design, and community.
We create product that sits at the intersection of streetwear, self-expression, and everyday wearability, with a focus on meaningful design, elevated silhouettes, and building emotional connection through clothing.
As the brand continues to grow across ecommerce and retail, we’re building stronger internal systems, reporting, and decision-making processes to support the next stage of scale.
We’re looking for high-ownership, hard-working individuals who want to contribute to something bigger and help build the systems, discipline, and decision-making needed to scale a fast-growing brand.
Feel free to check us out on Instagram @drmersclub to get a feel for who we are.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Manager to become DRMERS CLUB’s first in-house finance hire and help build the company’s financial operating system from the ground up.
This role is ideal for someone who is highly analytical, organized, and excited about working closely with a growing fashion brand to improve forecasting, cash flow visibility, inventory planning, marketing efficiency, and overall business performance.
You’ll work directly with the CEO and cross-functional team to help guide decisions around cash flow, inventory purchasing, marketing spend, retail growth, and profitability.
This is not a traditional accounting role.
This is a high-ownership finance and operator role focused on building systems, creating models, improving visibility, and turning financial data into clear business recommendations.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
FINANCIAL PLANNING + REPORTING
- Build, refine, and maintain the company’s financial reporting and planning systems
- Create weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reporting cadences
- Build financial models from scratch to support business planning and decision-making
- Prepare weekly financial updates for the CEO
- Track actual performance against forecasts, prior periods, and prior year performance
- Conduct monthly variance analysis across revenue, margins, operating expenses, and profitability
- Identify risks, opportunities, and key business insights from financial performance
CASH FLOW + CAPITAL ALLOCATION
- Build and maintain a rolling cash flow forecast
- Provide clear visibility into cash position, runway, and upcoming cash needs
- Support decisions around where capital should be deployed across inventory, marketing, retail, operations, and growth
- Build models to evaluate the cash impact of purchase orders, ad spend, retail expansion, and other major business decisions
- Help the business plan ahead instead of reacting last minute
- Support the CEO with capital allocation decisions and financial tradeoff analysis
INVENTORY + WORKING CAPITAL
- Build inventory planning and purchasing models
- Partner with Operations to align buying decisions with demand, sales forecasts, and cash flow
- Support open-to-buy planning, reorder decisions, and inventory investment decisions
- Improve visibility into inventory at cost, sell-through, stock levels, and purchasing needs
- Identify opportunities to reduce stockouts, overstock, and cash inefficiencies
- Help create better systems for understanding how inventory impacts cash, sales, and profitability
MARKETING + PRODUCT PROFITABILITY
- Build models to track MER, contribution margin, SKU-level profitability, and product performance
- Support marketing spend decisions with clear financial insights
- Help connect ad spend, Shopify sales, product performance, and contribution margin
- Identify high-performing products, margin opportunities, and scaling opportunities
- Help the team understand which products, campaigns, and channels are driving profitable growth
FORECASTING + SCENARIO PLANNING
- Build best-case, base-case, and worst-case forecasts
- Model growth scenarios tied to marketing spend, inventory depth, retail performance, operating expenses, and cash flow
- Help leadership understand the financial impact of different growth decisions
- Support annual planning, quarterly planning, and monthly business reviews
- Provide forward-looking recommendations, not just backward-looking reporting
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL BUSINESS SUPPORT
- Work directly with the CEO on financial planning, reporting, and strategic decision-making
- Partner with Operations on inventory, purchasing, supply chain, and working capital
- Partner with Marketing on ad spend, MER, contribution margin, and campaign performance
- Partner with Retail on store performance, profitability, inventory, and expansion planning
- Work with external bookkeeping and accounting partners to ensure financial data is accurate, timely, and decision-ready
- Help create stronger visibility across the company so teams can make better decisions with better data
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WHO YOU ARE
- 5+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, consulting, transaction advisory, investment banking, or a similar role
- Strong financial modeling skills in Excel and/or Google Sheets
- Comfortable building models from scratch, not just maintaining existing templates
- Strong understanding of cash flow, gross margin, contribution margin, operating expenses, inventory, and working capital
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail
- Able to turn financial data into clear business insights and recommendations
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, growing company where systems are still being built
- Strong communicator who can explain financial information clearly to non-finance teams
- Proactive, ownership-minded, and able to identify what needs to be improved without waiting to be told
- Strong business judgment and ability to connect numbers to real operating decisions
- Comfortable working closely with founders and cross-functional teams
- Interested in ecommerce, retail, consumer brands, fashion, or inventory-heavy businesses
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STRONG PLUS
- Experience in ecommerce, retail, fashion, or consumer products
- Experience with inventory-heavy businesses
- Experience supporting marketing spend, inventory purchasing, or retail expansion decisions
- Experience with Shopify, QuickBooks Online, Triple Whale, Lifetimely, NetSuite, or similar tools
- Experience building dashboards or automating reporting
- Background in Big 4, transaction advisory, investment banking, high-growth startups, or consumer brands
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COMPENSATION + PERKS
- Salary: $100,000–$140,000 CAD based on experience
- 5–10% annual performance bonus tied to company profitability and strategic milestones
- Clothing allowance
- Paid vacation + sick days
- Extended health benefits
- Hybrid work environment
- Opportunity to become the first in-house finance hire at a rapidly growing fashion brand
- Direct exposure to CEO-level decision-making across growth, inventory, retail, marketing, and operations
- Opportunity to build the finance function from the ground up
- High-impact role with clear growth potential as the company scales
- Collaborative, ambitious, and fast-moving team environment
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WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS
DRMERS CLUB is entering its next stage of growth across ecommerce, retail, inventory planning, and international expansion.
As the business grows, we need stronger financial visibility, cleaner forecasting, better cash flow planning, and clearer decision support across every major area of the company.
This role is for someone who wants to be close to the business and help build the systems that guide how the company scales.
You won’t just be preparing reports. You’ll be helping the business understand what to buy, where to spend, what to prioritize, what to avoid, and how to grow with more discipline.
