Financial Analyst

Chosen Foods · San Diego, CA · 1 wk ago

On-siteFinanceFull-time

Work Model: Hybrid - 3 Days in Office

About the Role

Chosen Foods is seeking a highly analytical and intellectually curious Financial Analyst to join our FP&A team. This role is designed for an early-career finance professional who wants to build a broad foundation and grow into future finance leadership. The Financial Analyst will go beyond traditional close support and reporting, delivering financial insights that drive real business decisions across Operations, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Product. This includes customer, product, and channel profitability analysis, financial modeling, and business case development.

The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, genuine intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to challenge assumptions and ask hard questions. This role also carries a responsibility for continuous improvement — identifying opportunities to automate, streamline, and improve finance processes using modern tools and AI-enabled capabilities. We are committed to developing talent from within, and this position is intentionally designed as a development pathway toward future Finance Manager opportunities at Chosen Foods.

Responsibilities

Manage revenue and trade processes, including monthly revenue estimates and actuals tracking, sales pricing and discount setup in ERP/FPS systems, and trade forecast submissions.
Conduct customer, product, channel, and supply chain profitability analyses to identify opportunities for revenue growth, margin expansion, and cost optimization.
Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on scalability, standardization, and best-in-class FP&A practices.
Develop financial models and business cases to support pricing, promotions, new product launches, capital investments, operational initiatives, and strategic decision-making.
Support monthly close activities including freight (in/out), 3PL, duties, logistics and marketing accruals, trade accrual reviews, and journal entry preparation.
Partner cross-functionally with Supply Chain and Operations to provide financial insights, support standard cost updates, and drive variance analysis (including logistics, marketing spend, and inventory E&O).
Support forecasting and planning cycles including the Latest Estimate (LE) process (data gathering, uploads in Planful) and annual budgeting.
Actively identify and implement opportunities to automate manual finance processes and apply AI-enabled tools to improve speed, accuracy, and quality of analysis and reporting.
Contribute to financial reporting and analysis including management reporting, board materials, and ad hoc business insights.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
0–2 years of experience (internships strongly preferred).
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (formulas, exposure to financial models a plus).
Basic understanding of financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow).
Strong attention to detail and ability to work with large datasets.
Good communication skills and willingness to learn in a team environment.
Experience with planning tools (e.g., Planful) or ERP systems is a plus but not required.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel; and talk or hear.
Frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
Occasionally required to stand; walk; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Must be able to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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