Senior Analyst, Operations Finance - Chomps
Chicago, IL
About the Job
Who We Are
We're Chomps, the fastest-growing food brand in the U.S. and we're reimagining snacking. Our meat snacks are made using high-quality proteins, no sugar, and real ingredients – because we believe snacking should be simple, delicious, and convenient. Chomps can be found in over 20,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, real food that doesn't compromise on taste.
Traits of a Chompian
If you've been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You're a team player who's self-motivated and action-oriented. You're committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You're a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you'll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You're hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.
Accepting applications from 11/27 - 12/3/2024
What You Will Do
The Senior Analyst, Operations Finance role provides an opportunity to collaborate with cross functional teams in a dynamic and results-driven organization. Your main responsibilities will be to focus on operational analysis and optimization through the creation, enhancement and maintenance of financial tools, deliver financial reporting, support company-wide budgeting and planning processes, and provide high quality analysis and insights to the Chomps organization. You will collaborate with various teams, including Operations, Finance and Accounting, and have unique exposure to key business drivers of a rapidly growing brand and organization. You will be a game changer, demonstrating the intellectual curiosity and scrappiness to dig into unfamiliar data and analysis. You will help build and maintain meaningful tools to create measurable value to the Chomps organization. You will be a critical contributor on a growing and impactful finance team.
Responsibilities
Financial Reporting
- Create, maintain, and enhance month-end close dashboards and reports, collaborating across functions to deliver accurate monthly financial reporting through detailed variance analysis.
- Analyze financial results and incorporate key insights into financial reporting delivery.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), evaluating factors such as production and raw material costs to identify trends or inefficiencies.
Financial Planning
- Support ongoing financial planning processes by providing in-depth analysis and actionable insights aimed at improving the visibility and accuracy of operating expenses.
- Collaborate across functions to ensure that all operational projects are accurately integrated into financial models and planning processes by tracking the financial impact of ongoing initiatives and making necessary adjustments to plans.
- Maintain and enhance forecast models, assumption documentation, and reporting for operations inputs and outputs.
- Provide forecast templates and review trends in key operations expense accounts.
Ad Hoc Analysis / Cross Functional Support
- Supportinnovation financial modeling.
- Support operational efficiency projects and investment analysis through financial modeling, delivering insights on cost savings across operational expense areas.
- Provide actionable insights through analysis.
Who You Are
- 2+ years of experience in Finance Operations (FinOps), Financial Planning & Analysis, or related quantitative field.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics or related field required.
- Advanced in Excel, with strong analytical skills and proficiency in financial modeling.
- Familiarity with Netsuite, BI, CRM and financial planning applications is a plus.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional judgement and maturity, including an ability to escalate and ask for help when necessary.
- Exemplary collaboration skills.
- Outstanding communication (both verbal and written) and relationship management skills.
- Detail-oriented with a commitment to continuous improvement.
Position: Senior Analyst, Operations Finance
Reports to: Senior Associate, Finance
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time, exempt
Salary Range Opportunity:
- The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $75,000 + 10% annual bonus
Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:
- Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company
- In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.
Other Perks:
- Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry.
- Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
- Unlimited PTO and 10 paid holiday days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave.
- Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
- Company-wide Continual Education budget.
- An abundance of snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).
Our Commitment
Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business.
We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps.
Important Notice:
It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information.If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at careers@chomps.com