Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Meet Us

King Arthur Baking Company has been sharing the joy of baking since 1790. Headquartered in Norwich, Vermont, we're the ultimate baking resource, providing education, inspiration, and the highest quality products, all while fostering connections and community through baking. Our superior flours and mixes are available in supermarkets nationwide, and our direct-to-consumer business, website, and retail stores offer an even wider selection of specialty baking ingredients, mixes, gluten-free products, baking tools, and more.

We bring baking education to millions of bakers through our cookbooks, podcast, recipe app, website, and baking school. We're proud to be 100% employee-owned, which means everyone who works here has a real voice and a shared stake in what we do. This creates a strong sense of community built on trust, teamwork, and love of baking. As a benefit corporation, we're committed to the best interests of all our stakeholders: employees, our local communities, our broader community of bakers, and our planet.

Join us and help spread the joy of baking! King Arthur: where, as an employee-owner, your passion and ideas can truly make a difference.

The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst provides consultative and strategic financial support to business leaders, including forecasting, planning, and insightful financial analytics. They are focused on the e-commerce, retail, and marketing channels, providing timely models that help leaders better manage their business, improve financial performance, and meet annual financial and operating goals.

They are a systems thinker who can connect financial outcomes to sales strategy and consumer insights. They have ownership of key performance indicators, profitability reporting, and margin analysis, and are a key contributor to enterprise-wide financial budgeting and modeling.

The Benefits

Yes, we have the regular stuff: medical, dental, vision, company-paid short and long-term disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, paid time off to rest, paid holidays to have fun, and a 401k with a company match.

But here's what makes us different:

• 40 paid volunteer hours a year
• Profit sharing
• Participation in the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Knowing that those working with you are dedicated and engaged co-employee-owners that believe in you and your extraordinary abilities to move us all forward

The Location

Hybrid, combining working from home and onsite in White River Junction, VT, roughly 2-3 days per month. Ideal candidates will be located within a 2-3 hour drive of our offices.

The Pay

$88,500 to $119,500 annual salary; commensurate with experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze monthly financial results, distilling key trends and communicating business insights.
• Lead forecasting and financial reviews for e-commerce, retail, marketing, and selected administrative functions, serving as a finance partner to business leaders.
• Contribute to enterprise budgeting, reforecasting, and long-range financial planning processes.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to support data-driven decision-making through ad hoc financial analysis and scenario modeling.
• Design, maintain, and evaluate reporting for product and customer profitability and margin analysis.
• Actively contribute to building payroll analysis, including reports, scorecards, and databases related to HR and compensation.
• Work with internal teams to lead financial evaluation of retail expansion opportunities, capital return on investment, and other direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategic opportunities.
• Design and execute regular company-wide analyses to high-level using monthly performance analytics vs. budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Support special projects as assigned by management and senior leadership.

Note: This should not be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties and responsibilities.

Experience and Education

• Degree in business, accounting, or finance.
• 5+ years of professional experience in finance or accounting field with progressive responsibility in financial planning and analysis, preferably in e-commerce or retail.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Office.
• Proficient with advanced analytics tools: Data Cubes, MS Power BI, Tableau, SQL.
• Strong knowledge of ERP platforms (SAP S/4HANA preferred) with an emphasis on the ability to extract, analyze, and communicate financial information.
• Demonstrated track record of leading complex financial analyses through to completion, managing multiple deliverables, and consistently meeting deadlines.
• Proven ability to lead complex projects end-to-end, frame ambiguous problems, and deliver clear, actionable insights.

Competencies

• Decision Making and Problem Solving: Analyze complex situations, weigh the pros and cons, and make sound, timely decisions.
• Financial Acumen: Ability to grasp the financial effects and relationships of supply chain activity and decisions on the P&L statement.
• Technical System and Database Acumen: Demonstrated experience with automated Procure-to-Pay and Planning systems (ERP, MRP, EDI/API, Forecasting). SAP S/4HANA preferred.
• Drives Accountability: Able to effectively set clear expectations, define success milestones, and manage performance.
• Communication and Collaboration: Competence and confidence to function as an expert with cross-functional teams, external partners, and business leaders.
• Results Oriented: Proactive problem-solving and solution recommendations.
• Strategic Thinking: Capability to think critically and strategically to develop plans aligned with organizational objectives.

Success Factors

• Genuine enthusiasm for King Arthur's mission and products and a commitment to living our values.
• Demonstrates a strong sense of community by actively engaging and volunteering.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

• Physical requirements: Ability to work for prolonged periods at a desk using a computer; regular use of keyboard, mouse, and video conferencing tools; ability to communicate effectively; occasional standing, walking, bending, or reaching; may occasionally lift up to 15 pounds.
• Work environment: Indoors in a normal office environment; remote work environment that meets KAB standards; occasional work in a manufacturing facility.
• Safety: Responsible for adhering to and providing work in a safe and ergonomic manner.