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About ZIWI
ZIWI Limited is recognized as a leading pet nutrition company and is setting the standard globally using only New Zealand locally sourced natural and free-range ingredients. We have a passionate and dedicated team who are incredibly proud of the products we make and love sharing them globally.
About the Role
This is a full-time on-site role for a Financial Analyst located in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. We are seeking a high-performing Financial Analyst to support end-to-end FP&A and management reporting for our North American business. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys digging into data, building clean and scalable reporting, and turning analysis into business actions.
You will partner cross-functionally across Sales, Operations, Supply Chain and Finance (U.S. and New Zealand) to help manage the P&L, support forecasting and budgeting, and deliver decision-ready insights. The role is well-suited for an analyst who is solutions-oriented, process-minded and comfortable working with large datasets and evolving business needs.
What You'll Do
Support the monthly forecast and annual budget process: maintain templates/models, consolidate inputs, validate assumptions and prepare variance explanations.
Prepare recurring monthly reporting and KPI dashboards for leadership, including trends, bridge/variance analysis, and key drivers of performance.
Support month-end close activities: assist with accruals, review/validate results with departmental leadership.
Build and maintain channel/customer performance views: revenue, gross margin, mix/price/volume and key drivers by customer/channel/product format.
Support pricing and promotional analytics: maintain source-of-truth files, analyze impacts of list price and trade changes and quantify ROI for promotions or commercial initiatives.
Partner with Sales/Operations to translate business activity into forecast implications (timing shifts, fill-rate impacts, inventory constraints, etc.).
Identify and implement improvements to reporting processes, data quality, controls and documentation; help build scalable SOPs and repeatable workflows.
Leverage Excel (and tools such as Power BI) to automate recurring reporting.
Collaborate with teams across Sales, Operations and Marketing to provide decision support and ad hoc analysis tied to business initiatives and performance.
What You'll Bring
Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
2+ years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, corporate finance, accounting or a similar analytical role.
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail; able to synthesize complex datasets into clear takeaways.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain results to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
High proficiency in Excel (financial modeling and working with large datasets) and comfort with PowerPoint-based storytelling.
Intellectual curiosity and a problem-solving mindset
Comfortable owning workstreams end-to-end with appropriate guidance.
Bonus Points For
Experience in a product-based business (CPG, consumer goods, wholesale, manufacturing or e-commerce).
Experience supporting Amazon (Vendor Central), Chewy or other retailer portals/EDI data flows.
Experience with pricing, trade spend, gross-to-net concepts or promotional ROI.
Power BI, SQL, and/or Python experience used for reporting automation and data transformation.
Our Benefits Include
Health, dental, vision, EAP, life insurance (starting 1st of the month after hire)
401K with 3% company match
16 Paid Holidays per year
PTO (Paid Time Off)
Sick Days
Mental Health Days
Company Sponsored Volunteering Days
ZIWI Food discount
Hybrid Remote Work Opportunities
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