Sales Finance Analyst

Overview

About Us
Since our founding in 2011, Nature’s Bakery has been baking better-for-you snacks to nourish families and enable them to thrive. We believe that the choice to snack healthier should be an easy and desirable one. Today, we are a top 10 granola and snack bar brand, with approximately 500 employees baking soft-baked snacks with real, recognizable, and wholesome ingredients, such as whole grains and sun-ripened fruits.

Our marketplace success led us to join forces with KIND to create a health and wellness platform within Mars, Inc. While continuing to operate as a standalone company, we are now part one of the most well-regarded consumer goods company in the world. That independence allows us to remain an agile, insurgent brand committed to our brand purpose and founding.

Nature’s Bakery is a fast-growing company with a bright future ahead. We have achieved great things, and there is more opportunity for growth both on the digital and retail shelves, through expanded distribution with existing and new retail customers. To achieve our aspirations, we are expanding our team of growth-minded, nimble, and entrepreneurial individuals who like to roll up their sleeves and get things done. We think like owners, act like operators.

So, come join us to create a world of snacking that is both good, and good for you.

About The Role
The Sales Finance Analyst offers a unique opportunity to be a key financial influencer for Nature’s Bakery Sales team, facilitating key decisions related to sales and trade funds with a focus on ensuring profitable growth and maximum return on promotional investment. Financial partnership includes detailed event level planning, promotional spend review, forecasting, reporting, and ad-hoc customer analysis, while maintaining sound financial controls around trade budget spending. The position is instrumental in evaluating overall efficiency of trade plans.

The position reports to Commercial Finance and FP&A Director with significant exposure to senior levels of the Finance and Sales organizations. The role may be based out of our Pasadena, California office with work-from-home flexibility.

The Critical Success Factors
You will be most successful if you:

• Have experience with revenue management, sales finance, and/or trade promotion management specifically in the consumer goods sector.
• Delivered detail reporting and analysis of Sales, Trade and Customer P&L’s.
• Participated in Period End Close, Internal Controls and S&OP processes.
• Have demonstrated use of systems and developed streamlined processes to drive continuous improvement and cross functional efficiencies.

The Ideal Candidate
In addition, our ideal candidate should have strong critical thinking skills, ability to get insights out of data, probe and ask the right questions to stakeholders. Excellent presentation skills and ability to meet deadlines are key success factors for this role.
The Minimum And/Or Technical Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3-5 years of financial analysis experience in CPG industry required
• Experience with Sales Finance/RGM, Internal Audit management a plus
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and critical thinking skills
• Thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced organization
• Work independently and cross functionally
• Proficient in Excel and other MS Office programs
• Familiar with US GAAP
• Excellent written and oral communication, and presentation skills

Your Career Journey At Nature’s Bakery
As a young company, we have had the opportunity to shape, reinforce and live our five core company values daily:

• Growth Minded. You are incessantly curious, you believe career development is journey built on experiences, feedback and personal growth
• Solutions-Focused. You excel at both thinking and doing and have a track record of turning organizational objectives into actionable solutions
• Respect. You thrive in environments where team members treat each other with respect and support one another, in fact you believe the best solutions emerge when you can engage in fact-based, low-ego discussions
• Stronger Together. Working as a team towards a common goal, we thrive on collaboration because we believe each of us has a unique perspective to offer
• Integrity. “Doing the right thing” guides you, it is the compass that guides every decision and action you take

Our culture enables our success as individuals and as a company. From the start, you will have ownership over projects because we are a lean organization that tightly collaborates for faster decision-making. In doing so, you will deepen your skillsets while having exposure to broader experiences and senior leadership. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s Best Workplaces,” Mars, Inc. is a purpose-driven organization that will also provide you access to advancement and career growth opportunities, either within Nature’s Bakery or the broader Mars family of companies.
Our brand purpose extends to our own employees—we know that when you thrive, so does the company. That is why we offer market competitive compensation. In addition to a competitive base salary, our annual incentive plan rewards achievement toward company and individual goals.

Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your health and wellness. Every team member is offered 100% employer paid health, dental, vision, life, AD&D (accidental death and dismemberment), and short-term disability insurance. Our 401(k) plan provides a safe harbor company match. Team members receive 10 paid holidays a year and paid time off. Finally, there is a suite of other benefits, such as a healthcare flexible spending account, a one-year subscription to Peloton Digital Membership (a $155 value), wellness activities and wellness awards (valued at up to $400), and an employee assistance program offering free confidential legal, financial, and counseling services.

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The duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and meet strategic objectives.
Nature’s Bakery is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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