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 At Kinder's, we're passionate about flavor, quality, and creating exceptional food experiences. As our company continues to grow, so does the scale and complexity of our supply chain across co-manufacturing, logistics, and an expanding SKU portfolio.

The Finance Analyst will support the financial processes, reporting, and analysis that keep our operations running efficiently. This role goes beyond pulling numbers - delivering rigorous analysis and actionable insights that improve performance and support sound decision-making across Supply Chain and Operations.

Operating in a fast-moving and evolving environment, this analyst will support budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes while helping guide decisions made with imperfect information. The role partners closely with Supply Chain and Operations teams and supports senior finance leadership with supply chain financial insights. 

This position plays an important role in helping balance service, cost, margin, and working capital to ensure supply chain decisions support the company's long-term financial health and strategic priorities. 

Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting 

• Support the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes for Supply Chain, including COGS, freight, warehousing, co-manufacturing, inventory, and other key operational cost areas.  
• Prepare, maintain, and improve recurring financial reporting, dashboards, and KPI packages for Supply Chain leaders, Finance, and senior leadership. 
• Analyze variances to budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities across cost, productivity, service, inventory, and margin. 
• Deliver forward-looking insights that help Supply Chain and Operations leaders understand expected performance and make informed decisions. 
• Support scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to evaluate financial outcomes under different demand, cost, service, inventory, sourcing, and operational assumptions. 
• Help embed financial rigor into Supply Chain planning processes, including S&OP / IBP, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management. 
• Help improve planning processes, reporting tools, and financial visibility as the company continues to scale. 

Financial Reporting & Business Partnership 

• Serve as a day-to-day finance partner to Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement, Logistics, and related cross-functional teams. 
• Translate supply chain and operational metrics into financial insights, connecting volume, mix, service levels, productivity, inventory, freight, warehousing, co-manufacturing, and cost drivers to EBITDA and cash flow. 
• Prepare supply chain financial performance summaries, management reporting, and ad hoc analysis for senior leadership. 
• Support decision-making in ambiguous situations where structures are still developing and information may be incomplete. 
• Build strong working relationships across the organization and communicate financial concepts clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders. 
• Help establish financial guardrails that support service, cost efficiency, margin, working capital, cash flow, and long-term financial health. 
• Support structured trade-off analysis across service levels, inventory investment, cost, margin, and capital efficiency. 

Cost Management & Margin Analysis 

• Support COGS, gross margin, and supply chain cost reporting and analysis, including materials, labor, overhead, freight, warehousing, co-manufacturing, and other key cost drivers. 
• Build and maintain financial models to support margin analysis, cost optimization, productivity tracking, and supply chain investment decisions. 
• Develop and maintain clear, repeatable expense allocation methodologies that improve cost visibility, support consistent reporting, and help business partners understand financial performance by function, product, channel, or operational driver. 
• Identify and quantify opportunities to improve margin, reduce cost, increase efficiency, and strengthen financial performance. 
• Evaluate supply chain initiatives through financial modeling, including sourcing strategies, SKU decisions, network changes, capacity investments, productivity projects, and new product launches. 
• Partner with R&D, Brand, Procurement, and Operations on new product costing, reformulations, pack changes, and lifecycle margin management. 
• Support working capital analysis, including inventory investment, turns, obsolescence risk, and cash flow implications. 

Procurement, Vendor & Supply Chain Economics 

• Support Procurement and Operations with financial analysis related to supplier negotiations, cost breakdowns, vendor economics, and should-cost analysis. 
• Assist with financial risk analysis related to commodities, tariffs, freight, supply disruption, supplier changes, and other external cost drivers. 
• Help evaluate sourcing and supply chain decisions through the lens of margin, service, cost, working capital, and cash flow. 
• Provide analytical support for trade-off decisions across service levels, cost efficiency, inventory investment, supplier economics, and capital needs. 
• Partner with Procurement to help ensure sourcing decisions align with margin objectives, service expectations, and capital efficiency. 

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field. 
• 3-5 years of progressive finance experience, preferably in supply chain finance, operations finance, FP&A, corporate finance, or business analysis. 
• Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, COGS, gross margin, inventory economics, and working capital. 
• Experience in Consumer Packaged Goods, food, manufacturing, retail, or another inventory-intensive business preferred. 
• High attention to detail, strong ownership, and the ability to manage multiple priorities. 
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills. 
• Ability to translate supply chain, operational, and business drivers into clear financial insights and recommendations. 
• Comfortable operating in a high-growth or evolving environment where processes, tools, and structures are still being built. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present findings clearly to senior partners and cross-functional stakeholders. 
• Ability to build trust and effective working relationships across finance and non-finance teams. 
• Familiarity with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite, and financial planning or reporting tools. 
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets skills required; experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker a plus. 
• Exposure to co-manufacturing, 3PLs, complex SKU portfolios, or S&OP / IBP processes a plus. 

The position will be based onsite in Walnut Creek, CA. We strongly believe in the power of culture and community and have a hybrid work structure with 4 days in the office on a weekly basis to encourage collaboration and personal connections that will allow us to better serve our customers and consumer and to have more fun. Fridays are flex days with employees having the opportunity to choose to be either in the office or to work from home based on what makes most sense for them.

The expected starting salary range for this role is $115,000- $125,000 per year. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on the location of the role. The amount a particular employee will earn within the salary range will be based on factors such as relevant education, qualifications, performance and business needs.