About this role
At Thorne, we work to deliver high-quality, science-backed solutions to empower individuals to take a proactive approach to their well-being. Each day begins with a mission to help others discover and achieve their best health. We count on our team members to challenge and push the boundaries to make that happen. At Thorne, you’ll be joining a team of more than 750 passionate individuals committed to our cause of providing superior health solutions at every age and life stage. 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. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Strategic Business Planning, this role partners closely with Finance and cross-functional business leaders to strengthen financial planning, explain business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and provide actionable insights that support data-driven decisions. The Senior Financial Analyst also serves as the primary Finance business partner for Thorne’s IT organization, developing a deep understanding of technology investments, project economics, vendor commitments, and departmental cost drivers. A major focus of this role is improving how financial information is modeled, analyzed, and communicated. The Senior Financial Analyst will build scalable, automated, and intuitive financial models and reporting tools that improve the speed, accuracy, transparency, and usability of financial information across Finance and the broader organization. The ideal candidate is a highly analytical and curious finance professional who combines strong FP&A fundamentals with exceptional financial modeling skills, business acumen, and a continuous improvement mindset. This individual is comfortable challenging assumptions, navigating ambiguity, working directly with business leaders, and translating complex financial information into clear insights and recommendations. The scope reflects the current role’s responsibility for corporate planning as well as dedicated Finance partnership for IT departments and technology investments. 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. Investment Analysis & Business Cases 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.