Strategic Financial Analyst (Operations)

Sterling Foods; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sterling Foods in San Antonio, TX, is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst who can turn data into actionable insights. You’ll work with revenue, costs, capex, and KPIs to inform leadership decisions and drive performance.

You will build financial models, forecast scenarios, and prepare monthly and quarterly reporting, partnering with business leaders to identify opportunities and manage risk.

Qualifications

• Experience budgeting and forecasting with annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Strong ability to analyze KPIs such as revenue, cost of sales, operating expenses, and capex.
• Skilled in building and maintaining financial models and what-if scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Analyze KPIs and explain variances to leadership.
• Build and maintain sophisticated financial models and scenario planning.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for management.
• Monitor market trends and provide external context for performance.
• Identify and drive process improvements and automation.

Job description

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst

Help Turn Numbers Into Business Decisions

Role Overview

What if your analysis could do more than explain yesterday-it could help shape tomorrow?

Sterling Foods is looking for a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst who is curious, analytical, and energized by turning financial data into meaningful business insights. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic finance team and play a key role in helping leaders understand performance, identify opportunities, manage risk, and make smarter decisions.

You’ll go beyond the numbers. You’ll help us understand what happened, why it happened, what may happen next, and what we can do about it.

Working across revenue, costs, capital expenditures, and key business metrics, you’ll develop analyses and financial models that give our leadership team the insight they need to move the business forward.

If you enjoy asking "Why?", digging into the data, building the story behind the numbers, and translating complex information into clear business recommendations, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Support the development of annual budgets and monthly rolling forecasts.
• Partner with leaders across the organization to understand business drivers and financial assumptions.
• Help identify emerging trends and opportunities that could impact future performance.

Performance & Business Analysis

• Analyze current and historical trends across key performance indicators (KPIs), including revenue, cost of sales, operating expenses, and capital expenditures.
• Investigate variances and identify the "why" behind the numbers.
• Translate financial data into actionable insights and recommendations for management.

Financial Modeling & Scenario Planning

• Build, maintain, and enhance sophisticated financial models to support strategic business initiatives.
• Develop "what-if" scenarios to help leadership evaluate opportunities, risks, and potential outcomes.
• Turn complex data into clear, decision-ready information.

Reporting & Executive Insights

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for management.
• Highlight significant variances between actual results, budgets, and forecasts.
• Develop presentations and analysis that clearly communicate financial performance and business trends to leadership.

Market & Industry Intelligence

• Monitor industry trends, market conditions, and relevant competitor performance.
• Provide external context that helps Sterling Foods better understand its financial performance and competitive position.
• Identify trends and opportunities that may influence future business results.

Process Improvement & Automation

• Identify opportunities to make financial reporting and analysis more efficient, accurate, and scalable.
• Help automate recurring reporting and analytical processes.
• Champion improvements that reduce manual effort and allow the finance team to spend more time on insight and strategy-not spreadsheets.

Why This Role Matters

At Sterling Foods, Finance isn't simply about reporting the numbers. It’s about helping the business understand them—and knowing what to do next.

Your work will help connect financial performance to the decisions being made across the organization. You’ll have the opportunity to work with leaders, influence business decisions, improve processes, and help build the financial insight that supports Sterling Foods' continued growth.

If you’re ready to bring your analytical skills to a role where your work can make a visible impact, we’d love to meet you.

Sterling Foods is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.