Chief Financial Officer at Kinder's Walnut Creek, CA

Chief Financial Officer job at Kinder's. All potential candidates should read through the following details of this job with care before making an application.
We drive hard to be the most quality-obsessed, innovative company in any market we serve and while we have experienced tremendous growth over the last 5 years, we think we are just getting started. We love our consumers and are fired up to be part of their flavor journey, and we need more great people to help us continue to raise the bar for what consumers think is even possible in their own kitchens.
Today, we have over 100 products sold nationwide at retailers including Costco, Walmart, Sam's Club, Whole Foods, Sprouts, Kroger, Safeway and many more. While we have been around for over 75 years, we have experienced explosive growth in the last 5 years and are now a top 5 brand in the U.To keep our momentum rolling, we need more passionate flavor advocates and builders to come and join our team and help us reach every kitchen across the U.Kinder's has evolved from a beloved regional Butcher shop/restaurant into one of the fastest-growing flavor-forward food companies in North America. We are not your traditional CPG company. Kinder's is privately held, founder-led, and obsessed with building a modern brand that delivers real value to consumers and partners. We believe in the power of curiosity, authenticity, bold decision-making, and building systems that allow humans to thrive at scale. This is a rare opportunity to lead finance at a company in full momentum, where financial strategy is not back-office, but central to driving business velocity, innovation, and enduring brand value.
How You\'ll Have an Impact on Kinder\'s: The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Kinder\'s will play a pivotal role in our efforts to scale our business by driving key financial and enterprise-level priorities in coordination with the Company\'s CEOs and broader senior leadership team. The CFO will be responsible for driving several areas of key strategic importance including strategic financial management and planning, accounting and reporting, financial analysis and business intelligence, and capital structure management and liquidity planning. This role will work closely with the Company\'s C-level and next-level leaders to define key business priorities and financial goals and help facilitate the development of both short-term and long-range plans to help attain them. The CFO will work with internal and external stakeholders to drive a clear understanding of the financial implications of key business decisions and will help to develop tools to drive alignment between financial goals and business execution. This role requires a results-oriented leader with a broad understanding of business opportunities and risks, strategic problem-solving capabilities, strong communication skills, project management discipline, analytical capabilities, and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally. The Chief Financial Officer will serve as a core member of the Executive Leadership Team, helping shape company-wide strategy while building a best-in-class finance and accounting organization. This role spans enterprise financial management, strategic planning, liquidity optimization, capital structure, and team development.
It is for a financial leader who thrives in high-growth, values-led, founder-involved environments, and who is eager to leave a lasting legacy.
Strategic Financial Management
Serve as a core member of the executive team, actively shaping the company\'s growth strategy and long-range financial planning.
Provide financial leadership on key financial transactions including debt financing transactions, major capital projects, and M&A.
Empower key cross-functional leaders with financially driven insights that help stimulate growth and / or operational improvements.
Champion the use of financial information to build more robust business understanding across the organization and help support decision-makers in identifying attractive risks and developing compelling business plans to execute on them.
Accounting & Reporting
Oversee accounting, audit, and tax functions to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
Lead preparation of financial reporting, management dashboards, and, as applicable, lender compliance packages.
Enhance key areas of finance team including Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance including development of KPIs, reporting and management tools, and staffing / people investment plans.
Financial Planning & Analysis
Enhance forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes to support cross-functional alignment on requirements to deliver on growth and other business goals.
Build robust decision-support tools that empower functional leaders to make faster, more data-informed decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide business intelligence strategy.
Develop KPIs and other performance communication tools to drive alignment around the status of the business relative to goals and to highlight areas of risk or opportunity.
Collaborate with the Chief Administrative Officer and IT team to evaluate financial data / system architecture to identify opportunities to investment and / or process change to increase the speed, quality, and relevancy of information communicated to key business partners.
Evaluate financial impact of key investments (e.g. capital projects, M&A) and support the Board in decision-making.
Capital Structure & Liquidity Management
Develop the Treasury function including establishment of clear roles and hire, where needed, to fill key gaps.
Evolve cash forecasting / planning tools to enhance ability to monitor and manage working capital including identification of potential opportunities to improve the Company\'s cash conversion cycle.
Drive management of inventory to optimize investment levels including the evaluation of trade-offs between margin rate and inventory for slow-moving goods.
Manage current and prospective banking lender relationships, ensuring compliance with existing credit agreements and building foundations for future financing needs / goals.
Evaluate and structure potential recapitalizations or dividend transactions (if applicable) in alignment with shareholder priorities and market conditions.
Build and mentor a high-performing finance and accounting team aligned to the Company\'s growth and scale goals.
Develop talent roadmap and set clear goals and associated milestones for investment in high-bar talent required to build a next-level team.
Evaluate opportunities to optimize structure / organizational design of the finance team.
Champion system upgrades (including the leveraging of AI) and data integration initiatives to enable cross-functional access to financial and operational insights.
15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, preferably in high-growth CPG, food, or consumer-focused companies.
Deep functional expertise across FP&A, capital markets, accounting, treasury, and operations finance.
A long-term mindset paired with operational urgency, and freedom to innovate in a non-public structure.
Aligned from the Top: Our Board and ELT are committed to capability-building and enduring value creation. Ready to Help Shape the Next Chapter?
If you\'re a finance leader looking to do your most impactful, legacy-building work, and help write the next chapter of an iconic flavor brand, we want to hear from you.