Candidates must currently reside within commuting distance of the Greater Sacramento area. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
Join a leading multi-site food manufacturer as a Senior FP&A Analyst, partnering directly with executive leadership to drive financial planning, operational analysis, and strategic decision-making. This highly visible role reports to the CFO and serves as a key business partner across operations, sales, and accounting.
This position is ideal for a finance professional who enjoys digging into data, understanding the drivers behind business performance, and translating complex information into actionable insights for leadership teams.
Position Overview
The Senior FP&A Analyst is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and performance analysis across a complex manufacturing environment. The role combines strong analytical rigor with cross-functional business partnership, helping leaders understand results, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions that improve financial and operational performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes
- Build and maintain financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses
- Perform budget-to-actual variance analysis and explain key business drivers
- Develop reporting packages, dashboards, and presentations for leadership
- Partner with operations and commercial teams to improve performance and support decision-making
- Analyze costs, margins, and profitability across the business
- Support strategic initiatives, capital investments, and process improvement efforts
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required
- Minimum of 3 years of FP&A experience in the United States, preferably supporting manufacturing, food production, consumer products, or other operationally intensive businesses
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis skills
- Advanced Excel proficiency and experience working with ERP systems and large data sets
- Ability to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Strong analytical curiosity, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
- Must currently live within commuting distance of the Greater Sacramento area
Why This Opportunity?
- Competitive compensation, bonus opportunity, and comprehensive benefits package
- Report directly to the CFO in high impact role
- Significant exposure to executive leadership
- Collaborative culture with significant growth and development potential
- Competitive compensation, bonus, long term incentive, and comprehensive benefits
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- Minimum of 3 years of FP&A experience in the United States
- FP&A experience supporting manufacturing, food production, consumer products, or operationally intensive businesses
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis skills
- Advanced Excel proficiency
- Experience working with ERP systems and large data sets
- Ability to communicate effectively with finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Strong analytical curiosity, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
- Must currently live within commuting distance of the Greater Sacramento area
What We Do
3P Partners is an executive search and recruiting firm focused on the consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and beverage, agribusiness, and logistics sectors. Founded in Visalia, California, it helps companies identify and place senior leaders across finance, human resources, operations, engineering, supply chain, and commercial functions. The firm serves more than 200 food and beverage companies across North America, Australia, and New Zealand.
