Job Description

JUNIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

LOCATION SAN DIEGO - CALIFORNIA

NON-EXEMPT POSITION

ABOUT US:

The Chosen Foods story began years ago with the launch of our Avocado Oil, a revolutionary everyday cooking oil loaded with vitamin E and antioxidants that took the cooking world by storm. Since then, we've been on a rapid growth trajectory.

At Chosen Foods we believe in the power of real food to nourish ourselves, our families and our communities. From our beginnings with the avocado we created a new way of cooking and eating. It's rooted in ingredients that are both fresh and ancient. It's brought forth in a beautiful collision of cultures and a shared love of eating wholesomely. It adds up to a joyous and delicious celebration of nourishment. We want to spread that sun-soaked magic to the world, and everyone who has chosen to improve their lives. You can count on us to make the foods that make it easy to choose health, sustainability, and great taste.

ABOUT THE ROLE: Our strong Finance and Accounting Team is looking for a Junior Financial Analyst. The Junior Financial Analyst oversees the Retail arm of our business, as well as our Canadian and Mexican entities. Additionally, this role partners with operations, sales, and R&D to ensure a constant flow of communication between finance and the revenue generators. The purpose of the role is to combine analytical work and communication to help create our monthly board pack and prepare month end, quarter end, and year end close.

Chosen Foods has hundreds of SKU's, spanning across sizes and flavors. Part of the responsibilities of this role is to support the integrity of the standard costs of these SKU's and perform monthly variance analysis. Moreover, this role will be responsible for the excel forecast model accuracy for Canada and Mexico. This requires updating the actuals, partnering with the accounting team as necessary, updating the quarterly expense budgets, and updating monthly sales forecast.

This role is based at the Chosen Foods Headquarters in San Diego and reports to the Financial Analyst.

The essential functions related to this interesting position will focus on:

• Update and 'own' Canada & Mexico FC Models, work with accounting to ensure a smooth month end close and capture all spends in the corresponding month and forecast accordingly.
• Work with the sales team and provide analysis to support their commentary on forecast and actuals.
• Variance analysis Revenue, Expenditure, Price, Cost, Sales by Business Unit and Product Category.
• Maintain sales forecasts, be the finance 'go to' person for any sales related questions and maintain the retail P&L in the Forecast Model.
• Help prepare the month end board pack, with attention to detail and formatting, and understand the numbers to provide analysis for data driven decisions made at the management level.
• Support Finance Analyst in the migration to our new EPR system (SAP S4Hana).
• Attend sales meetings, attend meetings with external consultants, communicate certain aspects of the business with our parent company by providing timely and accurate data.

In addition this role will multitask through different responsibilities and support the integrity of the trade spend to align our promotions with our revenue. This will include reviewing monthly accruals and communicating the nature of our trade spend to the business.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's in finance, Business Administration or related field preferred
• 2+ years experience in Financial Reporting
• Advanced excel, large data set experience
• Experience with inventory & experience with ERP a plus

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organization skills
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Able to work independently and take initiative
• Able to adapt to changing priorities
• Able to work on multiple projects with accuracy and efficiency, while keeping to deadlines
• Detail-oriented
• Proficient with Excel - must be able to create and edit complex financial formulas
• The ability to be proactive, think creatively, and work in a team environment
• Must love avocados!

BENEFITS:

• Health Insurance, Vision and Dental (PPO, HMO, HSAA)
• 401K with employer match
• Employee Assistance Program
• 11 paid Holidays/annually
• 15 days PTO/annually
• 1 Paid day/annually for Civic duties and volunteering activities
• 5 free Chosen Foods products monthly

ADDITIONAL ELEMENTS:

After a candidate is selected, employment will be made contingent on the satisfactory completion of required background checks. Background checks will vary depending on the position and may include criminal history, credit history, driving record, drug testing or any other relevant information for the job.

Chosen Foods is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.