Strategic Supply Chain Finance Analyst – Sourcing

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Kinder's Premium Quality Seasonings & Sauces is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Supply Chain Finance – Sourcing & Procurement to drive cost analysis across ingredients, packaging, and components. You’ll forecast costs, validate savings, and support supplier negotiations in a fast-growing environment.

Based onsite in Walnut Creek, CA, you’ll collaborate with Procurement, Finance, R&D, and Operations to deliver actionable insights and scalable models that improve margins and working capital.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Supply Chain or related field.
• 3+ years in finance, analytics, procurement finance, or FP&A.
• Strong understanding of COGS, purchase price variance, gross margin, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience analyzing supplier costs, commodities, packaging, ingredients, or sourcing initiatives.
• Experience in CPG, food, manufacturing, retail, or inventory-heavy business preferred.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets for large data sets and scalable models.
• Strong analytical skills with data integrity and reconciliation.
• Ability to communicate complex analyses clearly with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly and weekly reporting for raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and other procurement costs.
• Analyze purchase price variance, co-manufacturer true-ups, inflation/deflation, and supplier cost changes vs budget and forecast.
• Build cost forecasts using contract terms, market indicators, and demand.
• Support period-end close through accrual analysis and variance explanations.
• Create dashboards linking sourcing performance to product cost, gross margin, inventory and working capital.
• Develop should-cost and supplier economics models for negotiation opportunities.

Skills

COGS

Purchase price variance

Forecasting

Excel/Google Sheets

BI tools

ERP systems

Supply chain finance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Supply Chain

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

SAP

Oracle

NetSuite

Anaplan

Job description

Kinder's Premium Quality Seasonings & Sauces is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Supply Chain Finance – Sourcing & Procurement to drive cost analysis across ingredients, packaging, and components. You’ll forecast costs, validate savings, and support supplier negotiations in a fast-growing environment.

Based onsite in Walnut Creek, CA, you’ll collaborate with Procurement, Finance, R&D, and Operations to deliver actionable insights and scalable models that improve margins and working capital.