Senior Financial Analyst - Logistics & 3PL

Kinder's; Walnut Creek (CA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Equity grants

Parental leave

Health benefits

Job summary

Kinder's in Walnut Creek, CA seeks a Finance Analyst to support budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for Supply Chain and Operations. The role focuses on delivering rigorous analyses, dashboards, and actionable insights to guide sound decisions in a fast-moving environment.

You'll partner with cross-functional teams, balance service and cost, and help drive margin and working capital improvements as Kinder's scales its global supply chain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 3–5 years of progressive finance experience, FP&A, or related field.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and working capital knowledge.
• Experience in consumer goods or inventory-heavy businesses is a plus.
• Excellent Excel/Google Sheets and financial modeling skills.

Responsibilities

• Budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for Supply Chain.
• Prepare and improve KPI dashboards and management reports.
• Translate metrics into EBITDA and cash flow insights.
• Support S&OP/IBP processes and scenario modeling.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and senior leadership on financial decisions.

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Excel/Sheets

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

ERP systems

SAP

Oracle

NetSuite

Strong communication

Education

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

Tools

SAP

Oracle

NetSuite

Job description

BUILT ON FLAVOR. FUELED BY PEOPLE.

What’s it like to work at Kinder’s? Well, there’s a lot of snacking and geeking out over what we all cooked over the weekend. Beyond that, there’s also plenty of hard work. Because we don’t just like flavor, we’re obsessed with it.

With over 100 products sold nationwide, we’re now a top-five brand in multiple flavor categories at Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods, and more. We’re not your typical CPG company. Privately held and founder-led, we like to think of ourselves as a pirate ship in a sea of cruise ships . Our crew is adventurous and fearless. We chart our own course and chase big ideas to make food unforgettable.

As we expand globally and approach $1 billion in revenue, we need more smart-and-scrappy, flavor-obsessed people to come aboard. If you’re looking for a place where you can see the real impact of your work... this is it!Every day, you’ll be part of a journey to add flavor to millions of meals and lives.

About This Role:

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.

Key Responsibilities Include:

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,identifyingkey 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 stilldevelopingand information may be incomplete.
• Build strong working relationships across the organization and communicate financial concepts clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Helpestablishfinancial guardrails that support service, costefficiency, 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 andmaintainfinancial models to support margin analysis, cost optimization, productivity tracking, and supply chain investment decisions.
• Develop andmaintainclear, 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.
• Identifyand 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.
• Assistwith 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 marginobjectives, service expectations, and capital efficiency.

Skills & Experience:

• 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 inConsumer PackagedGoods, food, manufacturing, retail, oranotherinventory-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.
• Comfortableoperating in a high-growth or evolving environment where processes, tools, and structures are still being built.
• Strong communicationskills 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 skillsrequired; experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Lookera plus.
• Exposure to co-manufacturing, 3PLs, complex SKU portfolios, or S&OP / IBP processes a plus.

Location and Travel:

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.

Pay Transparency:

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.

SEASONED FOR SUCCESS:

• No two days here are the same.
• We try to be good team members and good communicators, but we don’t live by hierarchy and structure – everyone is a difference maker here.
• We make a lot of decisions in the face of incomplete information – our team embraces ambiguity and tries to make good decisions fast rather than great decisions slow.
• We believe our job is to take smart risk, not to eliminate risk.
• We believe in growing our skills and becoming a better company with more managerial expertise, but we are an entrepreneurial company at heart.
• We aren’t trying to be average – we want to do exceptional things, and we are willing to work hard to achieve them.

BENEFITS THAT BRING MORE TO THE TABLE:

We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, 401k, bonus / incentive eligibility, equity grants, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits, including parental leave. Kinder’s benefits vary based on eligibility and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

OUR RECIPE FOR BALANCE:

We believe great culture starts with people. We’re a people-first company built on connection, collaboration, and balance. Most of our work happens in the office to spark creativity and community, but we also offer flexibility so team members have the autonomy to work outside the office when needed to support their work-life balance and personal commitments.

WHERE EVERY INGREDIENT MATTERS:

Kinder's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need any accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, please reach out to us at [e-mail]