Senior Financial Analyst – Corporate FP&A
Thorne · United States · posted 1 month ago
Apply by 15 November 2026 · 18 days left
The Senior Financial Analyst – Corporate FP&A plays a critical role in Thorne’s financial planning and decision-making processes, supporting annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, long-range strategic planning, financial analysis, and business performance reporting.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Drive annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning activities across assigned departments while supporting company-wide financial planning processes.
- Develop detailed budgets and forecasts based on business drivers, operational plans, project timelines, resource requirements, vendor commitments, and other relevant assumptions.
- Partner with business leaders and budget owners to gather assumptions, challenge inputs, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure financial plans align with broader business objectives.
- Maintain a strong understanding of departmental cost structures and key financial and operational drivers to improve forecast accuracy and provide meaningful financial guidance.
- Track performance against budgets and forecasts and proactively identify emerging risks, opportunities, trends, and changes in business assumptions.
- Support the continued evolution of Thorne’s forecasting methodologies, planning tools, and financial planning processes.
Finance Business Partnership
- Serve as a trusted Finance partner to assigned functional teams, including acting as the primary Finance business partner for Thorne’s IT departments.
- Develop a strong understanding of how supported departments operate, including strategic priorities, projects, resource needs, contracts, financial commitments, and key performance drivers.
- Lead regular financial discussions with business partners to review performance, forecasts, spending, risks, opportunities, and upcoming decisions.
- Help budget owners develop well-supported assumptions while creating accountability for financial plans and commitments.
- Constructively challenge business assumptions and provide financial perspectives that help leaders evaluate options and make informed decisions.
- Partner with Accounting to ensure appropriate understanding and treatment of invoices, expense timing, accruals, and cost classifications.
- Understand project scope, timing, vendor contracts, resource requirements, billing structures, and spending commitments and incorporate those factors into financial plans and forecasts.
Financial Analysis & Reporting
- Analyze actual financial results against budget, forecast, and prior expectations and clearly explain key performance drivers and variances.
- Identify the business implications behind financial results and translate analysis into meaningful insights and recommendations.
- Proactively highlight financial risks and opportunities and help leadership evaluate potential actions and trade-offs.
- Develop clear, accurate, repeatable financial reports for Finance and non-Finance audiences.
- Tailor reporting, comparisons, level of detail, and visualization to the audience and purpose.
- Maintain strong reporting controls, including links to source data, validation checks, consistent formatting, and clear explanations of key findings.
- Prepare concise, visually compelling, insight-driven presentations for leadership meetings, financial reviews, and planning discussions.
- Synthesize complex financial and operational data into executive-ready materials that clearly communicate performance, implications, and recommended actions.
Financial Modeling, Automation & Process Improvement
- Build dynamic, driver-based financial models to forecast performance across the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement.
- Develop financial models from the ground up with clear structures, intuitive inputs, documented calculations, appropriate validation controls, and automated updates.
- Maintain and continuously improve financial forecasting models, tools, and methodologies to increase accuracy, transparency, scalability, and efficiency.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, and planning activities.
- Leverage Excel, AI, Aleph, and other available tools to streamline workflows and improve Finance productivity.
- Develop solutions that make financial information easier for Finance and business partners to understand, maintain, and use.
- Improve cross-functional integration of financial information and planning processes.
- Contribute to initiatives that strengthen and scale Thorne’s overall financial planning capabilities as the organization grows.
- Lead the financial development and evaluation of business cases for IT and other strategic investments.
- Develop financial analyses including Net Present Value (NPV) and other appropriate investment evaluation methodologies.
- Evaluate both quantifiable financial returns and benefits that may be more difficult to directly quantify.
- Partner with project owners to develop and validate assumptions, costs, timing, benefits, and expected outcomes.
- Distinguish between true spending reductions, avoided future costs, operational efficiencies, and other financial or strategic benefits.
- Prepare supporting financial models, analyses, and executive presentations that clearly communicate assumptions, considerations, risks, and recommendations.
- Provide objective financial perspectives that help leaders evaluate investments and allocate resources effectively.
WHAT YOU NEED
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field required.
- MBA, CPA, CFA, or other relevant professional certification preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant finance or analytical experience, including direct Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) experience.
- Demonstrated experience owning or directly supporting budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and Finance business partner relationships.
- Experience developing financial models and translating financial analysis into actionable business insights.
- Background in Big Four advisory or transaction services, management consulting, investment banking, or a comparable analytical environment strongly preferred.
- Experience within direct-to-consumer, consumer products, or similar businesses is a plus.
- Experience supporting IT departments, technology investments, or technology projects is a plus.
Technical Knowledge
- Advanced Excel proficiency required, including the ability to build sophisticated financial models from scratch.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel formulas and tools used to combine, prepare, analyze, and validate financial data.
- Ability to independently test financial calculations, assumptions, formulas, and outputs for accuracy.
- Proficiency with ChatGPT and Claude and experience using AI integrations or plug-ins within Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to develop effective prompts and appropriately use AI to improve efficiency while independently validating AI-generated calculations, assumptions, formulas, and outputs.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Word, including the ability to efficiently create polished, executive-ready presentations and documents.
- Experience using data visualization tools such as Power BI is a plus.
- Experience with Microsoft Navision or Business Central is a plus.
- Experience with Aleph or similar FP&A platforms is a plus.
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial statements, financial modeling, and corporate performance drivers.
- Ability to develop scalable financial models and reporting tools with clear layouts, documented logic, intuitive inputs, and automated processes.
Core Competencies
- Financial & Analytical Acumen: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand business performance and articulate its financial impact.
- Business Partnership: Builds credibility with Finance and non-Finance stakeholders and provides thoughtful financial guidance that improves decision-making.
- Strategic Thinking: Connects detailed financial analysis to broader business objectives, evaluates trade-offs, and develops practical recommendations.
- Intellectual Curiosity: Seeks to understand why results occur, how the business operates, and which underlying drivers influence financial performance.
- Initiative & Ownership: Operates as a self-starter, anticipates business and team needs, and consistently delivers high-quality work with limited guidance.
- Communication & Executive Presence: Clearly explains financial information, insights, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels and adjusts the level of detail appropriately for the audience.
- Constructive Challenge: Confidently questions assumptions and identifies gaps while maintaining collaborative relationships with business partners.
- Problem Solving: Effectively navigates unfamiliar, ambiguous, or poorly defined problems by identifying missing information and developing a practical path forward.
- Attention to Detail: Maintains a high standard of accuracy through disciplined self-review, validation, and quality control.
- Organization & Prioritization: Effectively manages multiple projects, deadlines, and competing priorities while proactively communicating progress and potential issues.
- Collaboration: Works effectively across Finance, Accounting, IT, and other functional teams to deliver shared objectives.
- Adaptability: Performs effectively in a fast-paced environment and adjusts priorities as business needs evolve.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to improve financial processes, tools, models, reporting, and ways of working.
- Accountability: Takes ownership of deliverables, follows through on commitments, and maintains accountability for deadlines and results.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive compensation
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance
- Company- paid life insurance
- 401k plan with employer matching contributions up to 4%
- Gym membership reimbursement
- Monthly allowance of Thorne supplements
- Paid time off, volunteer time off and holiday leave
- Training, professional development, and career growth opportunities
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