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About us

Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.

About The Role

The Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A supports financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis across the business. This role partners closely with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams to provide financial insight that improves decision-making, supports growth initiatives, and increases operational visibility. Reporting to the Sr. Finance Manager, this role plays a key hands-on role in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and business performance analysis within a fast-moving CPG environment. The role requires strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to translate financial data into clear business recommendations. This role owns core FP&A responsibilities including forecasting, variance analysis, reporting, and financial modeling. The Senior Financial Analyst will support leadership decision-making by identifying risks, opportunities, and performance drivers across the business. The role operates cross-functionally and regularly partners with commercial and operational stakeholders to evaluate pricing, trade investment, promotional effectiveness, product profitability, and supply chain impacts. Success in this role requires strong financial acumen, comfort working with large datasets, and the ability to prioritize effectively in a dynamic environment.

What You’ll Be Doing:

- Support annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and scenario planning activities
- Build and maintain customer-specific forecasts incorporating trade spend, pricing, commodity costs, and consumer demand trends
- Prepare monthly and quarterly variance analysis and management reporting packages
- Develop KPI dashboards and financial reporting to support leadership decision-making
- Build financial models for new product launches, pricing analysis, profitability analysis, and ad hoc business cases
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams to evaluate business initiatives and performance drivers
- Analyze promotional effectiveness, product portfolio performance, and cost savings opportunities
- Improve reporting processes and data analytics capabilities through existing platforms and AI-enabled tools
- Conduct ad hoc financial analysis and support executive-level presentations

Recipe For Success:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or related field
- 3–5+ years of progressive financial analysis experience, preferably in FP&A or Commercial/Category Finance within the CPG, food and beverage industry
- Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis
- Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables, complex formulas, and macros
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar data visualization tools
- Experience working with ERP systems such as NetSuite or SAP
- Strong understanding of financial statements, GAAP principles, and CPG financial metrics including gross margin, trade spend, and category profitability
- Ability to analyze complex data sets and translate findings into business recommendations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a matrixed environment
- High attention to detail combined with strong business and commercial acumen
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt quickly as business needs evolve

We believe in transparency - not just in our ingredients, but in how we hire. When making compensation decisions, we consider many factors like role level, market data, location, and relevant experience and skills. For this role, we expect the annual base salary to fall between $80,000-$100,000. Beyond salary, we offer a thriving culture where you’ll have interesting problems to solve with the autonomy you need to make a difference.

RECRUITERS: We do not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms or recruitment agencies - please, no phone calls or emails.

Benefits

The Perks, Why Work On the MrBeast Team

We are redefining what entertainment and storytelling look like at global scale. Every piece of content we publish reaches millions and influences culture in real time. This is your opportunity to lead the team that decides how those moments come to life across every screen.
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days