Strategic Finance Analyst

Summary

Join Hungryroot, a fast-growing AI-powered food and wellness company, as a Strategic Finance Analyst. This highly visible role involves developing forecasting tools, analyzing KPIs, building financial models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will provide insights to drive performance improvements and inform strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical skills, experience in financial modeling, and excellent communication abilities. This is a remote-first position offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and a record of academic excellence
• 1-4 years of relevant experience in one or a combination of the following: investment banking, equity research, investing (PE, VC, etc), financial services, management consulting, or experience at a high-growth tech-enabled company in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Business Intelligence or similar role
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Experience in building and adapting financial models or using financial planning software
• Proven ability to collaborate successfully with cross-functional teams; a track-record of being highly sensitive and responsive to stakeholder needs and concerns
• Project manager; self-driven motivation with a high degree of organization and efficiency with demonstrated attention to detail
• Effective communicator with experience interacting with senior leaders

Responsibilities

• Develop core forecasting and planning tools to support annual and long-range planning
• Monitor and analyze weekly and monthly KPIs, providing leading indicators and actionable insights to drive performance improvements and inform strategic decision-making
• Build financial models to analyze new business opportunities, product lines, and pricing strategies
• Strengthen existing relationships with cross-functional partners across Operations, Marketing, Technology, etc ., serving as the subject matter expert and owning the model drivers and outputs inside and out
• Work closely with our accounting team to deliver timely, accurate, and effective analyses and reporting of financial and operational performance metrics, including weekly and monthly rolling forecasts, monthly reporting packages and annual lookbacks
• Track and analyze budget vs. actual spend across multiple fulfillment centers and departments to provide actionable insights, and identify opportunities for cost optimization to ensure alignment with financial targets
• Actively identify and implement continuous improvements to streamline and innovate the broader Finance function
• Support ad-hoc analyses and projects as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of SQL (or desire to learn)
• Experience using Looker or similar BI tool

Benefits

• Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide!
• Equity
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Universal paid parental leave
• Monthly Hungryroot credit for delicious, healthy groceries
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Spring Health, LiveHealth, Rightway care concierge, and more
• 401k with match
• A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup