Senior Associate, Finance & Strategy

Maiden Home is growing a team of forward-thinking individuals who possess unique strengths and perspectives, an innate ability to inspire their colleagues, and an eagerness to reimagine the world of luxury furnishings.

As our Senior Associate of Finance & Strategy, you will play a pivotal role in driving Maiden Home’s financial strategy and operational excellence. Reporting directly to the Head of Finance with high exposure to our CEO & Founder, you will own and refine our financial model, ensuring all strategic initiatives align with value creation and long- term brand vision. You will also optimize profitability in existing functions as well as unearth drivers of efficiency. Your expertise will help prioritize strategic initiatives, guide decision- making, and enable leadership to allocate resources effectively.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the growth of our Finance & Strategy function and join a brand that is primed for its next stage of growth. You’ll enter a workspace that encourages innovation, creative expression, and teamwork, and your experience will be shaped by your performance, contributions, and drive. 

This is a fully in person position, located at our New York headquarters in the Tribeca Design District.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Finance & Planning

• Own the company’s financial model, ensuring it accurately reflects the business and enables strategic decision-making
• Oversee core financial operations — including monthly close, payables, and receivables — ensuring accuracy, transparency, and discipline across the organization
• Work with the Director of Finance to execute and eventually lead the annual planning and quarterly reforecasting processes, driving alignment across departments and fostering accountability to budgeted goals

Work with the Director of Finance and CEO on various initiatives that support the growth of Maiden Home’s business, including but not limited to:

• Evaluate and execute Maiden Home’s retail strategy including market selection, GC evaluation, buildout management, and store performance analysis
• Develop financial frameworks and business cases for new store openings, format innovation, and experiential concepts
• Drive ROI analysis for existing locations, optimizing the network through merchandising data, LTV metrics, and retention strategies
• Partner with Ecommerce and Marketing stakeholders to evaluate & optimize the growth marketing engine across paid channels, including Search, Social, Direct Mail, Print, and OOH

Work with the Director of Finance and CEO on any of the following product and/or customer insight initiatives, depending on priority:

• Work with the Product team to analyze category performance, pricing, margins, and demand patterns to support assortment and pricing decisions
• Build tools and reports that track product lifecycle performance, new product introductions, and key merchandising metrics
• Support financial diligence, cost analysis, and modeling for product initiatives such as new materials or supplier transitions
• Maintain monthly customer cohort reporting and help surface insights into LTV, AOV, and retention trends
• Support tracking and reporting for the Outbound Sales initiative, including pipeline metrics and sales conversion analysis

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in investment banking or finance & strategy at high-growth, brand-forward companies
• Intensely analytical and deep experience building financial models; strong grasp on how to distill the complexity of a process into the key inputs, variables, and outputs
• Adept at strategic prioritization and decision-making to effectively balance long- term business goals with short-term needs
• Executive presence and high skill working with senior leadership.
• Founder mindset – ready to take on tasks outside of a structured role
• Highly collaborative with a track record of building cross-functional relationships and trust
• Thrives in a fast-paced, results-oriented culture; track record of personally signing up for ambitious goals and persevering to deliver