Kinder’s is seeking an experienced Senior Financial Analyst - Trade who is passionate about being part of a team of hard-working people focused on bringing the future of flavor to consumers everywhere.

In 1946, World War II Navy veteran John Kinder started his own butcher shop in a small storefront in San Pablo, California. Over the next seven decades, John built a reputation for commitment to quality, family service, and amazing flavors. At the age of 90, he was still showing up first and helping customers find quality ingredients to make clean, delicious meals for family and friends. At Kinder’s, we carry on Grandpa John’s legacy by offering the best tasting seasonings, rubs, marinades, and sauces in the market. We are growing fast and have recently become a top brand in the attractive seasonings segment. Our products are available at national retailers including Costco, Albertsons/Safeway, Kroger, Sam’s Club and Walmart.

The combination of our attractive category positioning across multiple “flavoring” segments, a strong heritage brand, and investment in an end-to-end brand refresh has driven Kinder’s hyper-growth— over 500% in three years! Still, this is only the beginning.

We are excited to bring on passionate talent across the organization to further drive the Kinder’s mission: to provide unique, quality products to the Kinder’s consumer that create special meals and human connection. We believe our role is to be “Obsessed with Quality” so that consumers can rely on us to provide great flavor solutions and reclaim time from the kitchen to invest back into quality of life and relationships.

How you'll have an impact at Kinder’s:

As the Sr Financial Analyst – Trade at Kinder’s you will own the process of managing over $20MM in trade promotion activities!

• You’ll use your experience building Trade promotions to train Sales and troubleshoot questions, build exception reporting to identify issues with the data inputs and own discussions with Sales to make necessary corrections. You’ll ensure Trade promotions are accurate, entered on time and properly managed (by Sales) through the full planning cycle (forecasting to actualizing to analyzing).

• You’ll use your analytical skill set to analyze (ROI) the performance of key customer promotions. Using your understanding of how ROI is calculated you will own analyzing promotion effectiveness. This analysis will include understanding the promotion depth, duration and tactic to best understand the drivers of the promotions results. You’ll use the financial results to help Sales plan better and to influence future company guidelines on the optimal go-to-market strategies.

What are the Key Responsibilities of this Role:

In this role you will be managing a trade promotion system w/3000 sales promotions. Your role will be to understand how sales promotions are built and train sales to build new ones. You will build reports, analyze the data and once executed, you will analyze the results post mortem and offer suggestions for change.

• Support Director Trade Finance with trade promotion analysis and reporting.
• Analyze pre/post trade promotional results, provide recommendations for efficiency.
• Liaise with sales to ensure accurate and timely trade promotion planning.
• Cross functional point of contact for Exceedra trade promotion planning guidance.
• Coordinate Sales (and Brokers) facing communications and reporting.
• Ability to extract data from Exceedra and build Sales friendly reports and analysis.
• Collaborate with adjacent functions help streamline trade promotion processes.
• Manage monthly trade accrual to support month-end accounting closes.
• Provides support to the cash and deduction processes.
• Assist with deductions resolution, reporting and management. Maintain reports, identify issues and take appropriate actions for resolution.

What You Bring to the Table:

You are a scrappy, go-getter with a strong financial background and the ability to understand the sales side of finance who's looking to grow into a leadership role. You understand the ins and outs of trade promotions beyond simply pulling reports and are able to analyze the data and recommend changes. You are not afraid to ask questions and challenge the process.

• Your financial background and thorough understanding of how Trade expense is derived will allow you to own the monthly Trade accrual analysis that is provided to the CFO for monthly, quarterly and year-end closes.
• Your technical skills and curiosity to learn will allow you to help maintain the back-end data administration and configuration of the Trade promotion database
• You will possess the desire to continuously learn and to challenge/improve/recommend processes as we build out a Trade Finance department that is expected to grow as Kinder’s growth continues to pace at 50% every year.

Education / Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or comparable equivalent of experience.
• 2-4 years trade promotion analysis experience
• Experience in Consumer Packaged Goods Industry or a relevant parallel where trade promotions and executed and analyzed.
• Experience analyzing trade promotion. effectiveness, i.e., depth, duration, tactic.
• Experience in CRM Systems; Exceedra preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with calculating pre/post promotion ROI analysis.
• Experience with training Sales on best practices for creating trade promotions.
• Ability to build sales friendly trade promotion reports to streamline promotion maintenance.
• Understanding of trade accruals and ability to build reports to support month-end closes.
• In-depth/comprehensive knowledge of customer payment/deduction practices and company cash/deduction policies.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint; familiarity with Power BI.

Personal Characteristics

• A commitment and passion for being an active participant of our fast-paced, growing company with the ability to adapt and reprioritize quickly.
• Flexible, efficient, and motivated self-starter that requires minimal direction or oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong planning, organizational skills and attention to detail as well as devotion to seeing tasks through to completion.
• Team player that works well cross functionally and seeks to collaborate across the organization.

Things About the Way We Work:

• 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.

Location & Travel

The position will be based out of our 20,000 sq. foot office 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.