Senior Finance Analyst, Supply Chain & Manufacturing

Kinder's Premium Quality Seasonings & Sauces; Walnut Creek (CA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinder's is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Supply Chain Finance - Manufacturing, to deliver analytical support for the Co-Manufacturing network. You will develop reporting, models, and insights into product cost drivers to improve manufacturing performance.

Collaborating with Co-Manufacturing, Supply Chain Finance, Operations, and Accounting, you’ll evaluate costs, forecasts, and yield, driving actionable recommendations while handling large datasets in a growing company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 3+ years of progressive finance, accounting, analytics, manufacturing finance, operations finance, or FP&A experience.
• Strong understanding of COGS, standard costing, variance analysis, gross margin, inventory, and manufacturing cost drivers.
• Experience analyzing productivity, yield, scrap, labor, overhead, conversion costs, or capacity is strongly preferred.
• Experience in Consumer Packaged Goods, food, manufacturing, retail, or another inventory-intensive business is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly and weekly reporting for co-manufacturing costs and operational performance, including cost per unit, conversion cost, yield, scrap, labor, overhead, capacity utilization, and plant efficiency.
• Analyze actual results versus budget, forecast, standard, and prior periods; identify root causes, quantify financial impacts, and communicate conclusions clearly.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that connect manufacturing KPIs to COGS, gross margin, EBITDA, inventory, and cash flow.
• Reconcile operational, supplier, ERP, and financial data and resolve data quality issues with business partners.
• Support period-end close through accrual analysis, co-manufacturing cost validation, true-ups, and review of unusual transactions.
• Develop ad hoc analyses in response to business questions and deliver accurate, decision-focused outputs under tight timelines.

Skills

Financial analysis

COGS & costing

Variance analysis

Excel/Google Sheets

BI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Business

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

SAP

Oracle

NetSuite

Anaplan

Job description

Kinder's is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Supply Chain Finance - Manufacturing, to deliver analytical support for the Co-Manufacturing network. You will develop reporting, models, and insights into product cost drivers to improve manufacturing performance.

Collaborating with Co-Manufacturing, Supply Chain Finance, Operations, and Accounting, you’ll evaluate costs, forecasts, and yield, driving actionable recommendations while handling large datasets in a growing company.