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title: 'Strategic Finance Manager at Zola'
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# Strategic Finance Manager at Zola

- **Company:** Zola
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://www.zola.com/about/jobs?gh_jid=8662251002

## Job description

Zola is seeking a high-energy, analytical and motivated Strategic Finance Manager to join the Strategic Finance team. This role will report into the Head of Strategic Finance and will partner closely with the marketing, commerce, merchandising, operations, and accounting teams to forecast sales & margin, analyze trends and drive strategic thinking. This person will be responsible for providing accurate monthly & annual forecasts, thoughtful analyses and cultivating strong partnerships across the company to drive strategic initiatives.

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Build plans and forecasts for the total Zola business sales & margin and ensure plans align with financial goals
- Cultivate strong cross functional relationships and partner closely with marketing, commerce, vendor marketplace, and merchandising teams on business unit strategies and analysis and identify risks and opportunities
- Drive ad hoc analysis around business trends, both Zola specific and macro, to provide thoughtful and clear reports to key leaders
- Own reporting for weekly KPI reports, monthly forecast meetings, and quarterly opex reviews
- Partner with Accounting and Business Intelligence teams to ensure visibility and integrity of business and financial data
- Work with business leaders on Board materials, including financial projections, PowerPoint presentations and supplementary analysis
- Collaborate with leadership team members to determine and prioritize business strategies in accordance with annual planning
- Partner with the Head of Strategic Finance to drive strategic initiatives like M&A, cross-functional strategic processes, and long-term vision/roadmap planning
- Proactively drive process and workflow improvements for the team

## QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor’s degree required
- 3+ years of experience in a finance role in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
- Investment banking experience preferred
- Exceptional financial modeling and data analytics skills, with the ability to build clean, flexible models that tell a story
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint required, proficiency in Looker and/or SQL a plus (or ability to become proficient quickly)
- Highly analytical and critical thinker with ability to conduct analyses and defend such analyses; enjoys solving problems creatively and proactively and thinking strategically
- Highly detail oriented with strong organizational and problem solving skills and the demonstrated ability to manage multiple work streams efficiently and accurately
- Excellent storytelling and presentation skills. You can develop and deliver engaging presentations, emails, and financial reports. You know the importance of “details” and have the highest standard of excellence in verbal & written communication
- Team player and collaborator
- Able to build trusted cross-functional relationships

## SALARY RANGE

The salary range for this role is $130,000-$150,000. This full-time role will be hybrid at our office in NYC (Tuesdays & Thursdays).

## ABOUT ZOLA

We're Zola, the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples’ lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology… all in the service of love.

We built our entire platform from the ground-up in 2013, and quickly became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country. Our team has deep experience creating award-winning online and mobile products that are helpful, intuitive, and simply magical. We’re proud to have investor partners including Female Founders Fund, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Canvas Ventures, Thrive Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others.

We are passionate about supporting all forms of love, and we’re proud of our thriving community of over 1 million couples. We strive to hire a team that is as beautifully diverse as the couples getting married today, and we encourage individuals from every race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, religion and perspective to apply. Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, and partner will be respected and accepted and valued.

Our headquarters are in New York City. Come work with us!

## About Zola

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zola is an all-in-one wedding planning platform offering a free website, registry, guest list management, venue discovery, and invitation services to help engaged couples plan their weddings.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Shan-Lyn Ma, Nobu Nakaguchi

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Wedding Planning / E-commerce / Internet Publishing
- Target customers: B2C (engaged couples), with a mix of self-service and vendor partnerships
- Mission or purpose: "To make engaged couples happy" by turning big ideas into great solutions that simplify the entire wedding planning process [zola.com](https://www.zola.com/about/team)

## Products & Services
- **[Registry]**: Universal registry that lets couples add gifts, cash funds, experiences, and group gifting from any store, all in one place. Includes 20% off post-wedding for forgotten items [zola.com](https://www.zola.com/).
- **[Free Wedding Websites]**: Customizable, ultra-design-forward websites for sharing wedding details with guests [zola.com](https://www.zola.com/).
- **[Guest List & RSVP Management]**: Tools to import spreadsheets, track RSVPs, meal selections, plus-ones, and manage seating charts [zola.com](https://www.zola.com/).
- **[Invitations & Paper]**: Designed by Zola artists, customizable save-the-dates, invitations, and thank-you cards [zola.com](https://www.zola.com/).
- **[Venue & Vendor Discovery]**: Personalized recommendations for venues and vendors (photographers, caterers, etc.) with the ability to contact and book directly on Zola [zola.com](https://www.zola.com/).
- **[Budget Tool]**: Helps couples stay on top of wedding spending [zola.com](https://www.zola.com/).
- **[Mobile App]**: Award-winning iOS app for planning on the go [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/zola).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue: $397.4M (2025/2026 estimate); Total Funding: $269.2M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zola-com)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, NBCUniversal, Thrive Capital (led Series A); other investors include numerous venture firms [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zola-com)
- **Growth Signals**: Yearly revenue growth implied by size; headcount growth of +7.1% YoY (107 employees); website traffic of ~23.8M monthly visits, up 53.7% year-over-year; global rank #1,884 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zola-com)

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one ecosystem**: Couples can manage registry, website, guest list, and vendor discovery from a single platform, reducing the need for multiple tools.
- **Trusted brand**: Over 2 million couples have used Zola, making it a widely recognized authority in wedding planning [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/zola).
- **E-commerce + Software**: The registry generates revenue through gift sales, creating a built-in monetization model that funds free planning tools.
- **Innovative features**: Group gifting, virtual exchanges, and a 20% post-wedding discount differentiate the registry experience.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening the planning suite**: Expanding from registry into full planning (venues, vendors, budgeting, seating charts) to capture more of the wedding lifecycle.
- **Mobile-first experience**: Investing in the award-winning iOS app to serve couples on-the-go.
- **Personalization and AI**: Likely using data to improve vendor recommendations and guest list management.
- **International growth**: Presence in Canada, Tanzania, and Nigeria, with headquarters in New York [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zola-com).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Passionate yet pragmatic dreamers" with a collaborative, mission-driven environment where everyone’s voice matters. "We treat each other the same way we treat our couples—because we’re all in this together." [zola.com](https://www.zola.com/about/team)
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote-flexible – employees have the option to be 100% remote or work 2 days a week onsite in NYC with additional flexibility [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/zola).
- **Team composition**: ~107 employees with a strong engineering presence (21 technical staff) and notable alumni from Amazon, Google, Gilt, and Blue Apron [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zola-com).
- **Recent openings** (as of mid-2026): Senior Manager, Growth Marketing; Senior Accountant; Director of Brand Marketing – indicating growth in marketing and finance [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zola-com) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/zola).
- **Employee ratings**: 3.2/5 on Built In (142 reviews); work-life balance 3.3, culture 3.2 – moderate but positive community sentiment.

## Sources
1. [Zola website – products and mission](https://www.zola.com/)
2. [Zola – About / Jobs](https://www.zola.com/about/jobs)
3. [Zola – About / Team](https://www.zola.com/about/team)
4. [LinkedIn – Zola company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zola-com)
5. [Built In – Zola company profile](https://builtin.com/company/zola)

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