Strategic Finance Analyst

About Us

Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We are your personal assistant for healthy living. We get to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and we recommend and deliver healthy groceries, easy recipes and essential supplements for you and your family. It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time, and discover new foods. Founded on the belief that food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and we’re all unique in how we eat and live, Hungryroot is building a future in which healthy living is easy and enjoyable.

We are a distributed team built on top talent from over 28 states across the U.S. While we have a headquarters in New York City, we support employees working from wherever they are based. We believe in fostering team connection and collaboration across all of our employees' locations. Expect to attend regular team building events and an annual company retreat. Expect to be treated like an owner who cares about our common goal, not someone who has to clock in and out of work.

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly motivated Strategic Finance Analyst to join our team. The team reports to the CFO and owns all forecasting, business analytics and core metrics for our rapidly scaling business. We are analytical and detail-oriented individuals who enable leadership to make challenging strategic decisions by providing insights on business performance. We thrive on tackling challenging problems and translating quantitative analyses into actionable insights.

This is a highly visible role within Hungryroot and ideal for someone who wants to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative and data-driven environment. We aim to partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders in Operations, Marketing, Technology, etc. to deliver a comprehensive understanding of our business drivers.

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

Qualifications

• 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

Nice to haves 

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

Perks & 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

Expected Pay Range
$85,000-$110,000

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The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class.