Director, Accounting, Erp Transformation
Kinder's • Walnut Creek, CA • Full Time • $215,000–$240,000 / year
Posted on Wed, Nov 11, 2026
BUILT ON FLAVOR. FUELED BY PEOPLE.
What’s it like to work at Kinder’s? Well, there’s a lot of snacking and geeking out over what we all cooked over the weekend. Beyond that, there’s also plenty of hard work. Because we don’t just like flavor, we’re obsessed with it.
With over 100 products sold nationwide, we’re now a top-five brand in multiple flavor categories at Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods, and more. We’re not your typical CPG company. Privately held and founder-led, we like to think of ourselves as a pirate ship in a sea of cruise ships. Our crew is adventurous and fearless. We chart our own course and chase big ideas to make food unforgettable.
As we expand globally and approach $1 billion in revenue, we need more smart-and-scrappy, flavor-obsessed people to come aboard. If you’re looking for a place where you can see the real impact of your work... this is it! Every day, you’ll be part of a journey to add flavor to millions of meals and lives.
About the Role:
The Director, Accounting, ERP Transformation will play a critical leadership role in Kinder’s finance transformation, leading the Accounting workstream for the organization’s SAP S/4HANA upgrade. This role will be responsible for ensuring that Kinder’s accounting processes, financial controls, data, reporting, and business requirements are effectively designed, transformed, tested, and implemented within the new SAP S/4HANA environment.
This is a highly visible, cross-functional leadership position requiring a combination of strong accounting expertise, SAP experience, transformation leadership, and the ability to translate business requirements into practical technology solutions. The Director will serve as a key liaison between Accounting, Finance, IT, SAP implementation partners, and business stakeholders throughout the transformation.
Beyond the immediate S/4HANA upgrade, this leader will help establish a scalable, standardized, and technology-enabled accounting operating model that supports Kinder’s continued growth.
Key Responsibilities Include
SAP S/4Hana Transformation
- Lead the Accounting workstream for Kinder's SAP S/4HANA transformation, including requirements, design, configuration decisions, testing, deployment, stabilization, and post-go-live support.
- Serve as the primary Accounting and Finance subject matter expert, partnering with IT, implementation partners, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable SAP solutions.
- Design and implement future-state accounting processes that improve standardization, automation, efficiency, data quality, and financial close performance.
- Ensure transformed processes align with accounting policies, financial reporting requirements, internal controls, and business needs.
- Evaluate and optimize core finance processes, including general ledger, close and consolidation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and intercompany accounting.
- Establish governance and decision-making frameworks for accounting-related ERP design and transformation activities.
Finance / Accounting Transformation
- Lead the transformation and optimization of the end-to-end core accounting processes, systems, and operating models, including general ledger, close and consolidation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, intercompany, and other relevant finance processes.
- Ensure future-state processes align with Kinder’s accounting policies, financial reporting requirements, internal controls, and operational needs.
- Evaluate current-state accounting processes and identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and efficiency. This will include the identification of opportunities to reduce manual activities, improve data quality, and strengthen the financial close.
- Develop future-state processes aligned with organizational growth and evolving business requirements.
- Partner with Accounting leadership to assess process impacts and develop solutions that balance operational efficiency with strong financial controls to ensure accounting policies, internal controls, and financial reporting requirements are embedded within transformed processes.
- Help establish consistent accounting processes and standards across applicable Kinder‘s entities and business operations that are embedded within transformed processes.
Data Controls and Financial Reporting
- Ensure accounting master data, transactional data, and financial structures are appropriately designed and governed within SAP S/4HANA.
- Lead or support data cleansing, mapping, conversion, reconciliation, and validation activities.
- Ensure the S/4HANA solution maintains appropriate internal controls, segregation of duties, auditability, and financial reporting integrity.
- Partner with Internal Audit, external auditors, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, and other stakeholders to address control and reporting requirements.
- Establish appropriate reconciliation and validation procedures during migration and post-go-live activities.
- Support the development of accurate and efficient financial reporting capabilities enabled by the new ERP environment.
- Partner with IT and implementation teams on solution architecture, configuration, integrations, data migration, testing, and deployment.
- Oversee system testing, including unit, integration, user acceptance, and regression testing.
- Ensure ERP solutions support scalable accounting processes, robust controls, accurate data, and high-quality reporting.
- Identify opportunities to leverage automation, workflow, analytics, and emerging technologies to improve finance operations.
Program & Change Leadership
- Partner with the overall SAP S/4HANA program leadership to manage milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables.
- Provide clear communication to senior Finance and business leaders regarding project status, decisions, risks, and required actions.
- Lead cross-functional teams consisting of Accounting, Finance, IT, business stakeholders, and external implementation partners.
- Drive organizational readiness and adoption across finance and accounting.
- Develop training, communications, and change-management strategies for impacted accounting teams.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Finance leadership on the operational and accounting implications of S/4HANA design decisions.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Build strong partnerships across Kinder’s Accounting, Finance, IT, Operations, and business organizations.
- Act as a bridge between accounting professionals and technology teams, ensuring business needs are clearly understood and effectively translated into system solutions.
- Influence decisions across functions without relying solely on direct authority.
- Lead through periods of significant organizational and technology change.
- Mentor and develop finance transformation and accounting team members.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, standardization, and innovation.
Skills + Experience
- 15+ years of progressive accounting and finance leadership experience.
- 8+ years leading accounting shared services, global business services, or large-scale accounting operations.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial controls compliance.
- Prior experience in CPG, food & beverage, or manufacturing environments preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field
- CPA Required
- Significant experience leading or managing accounting workstreams for SAP S/4HANA implementations or upgrades.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting, internal controls, and financial close processes.
- Demonstrated ability to translate accounting and business requirements into ERP solutions.
- Experience with SAP Finance functionality and integration with other SAP modules and business processes.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in complex ERP transformation environments.
- Strong project, program, process-improvement, and change-management capabilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both accounting professionals and technology teams.
- Ability to operate strategically while maintaining sufficient attention to detailed execution and issue resolution.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA, CMA, MBA, or equivalent professional qualification.
- Direct experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance.
- Experience with S/4HANA transformation involving multiple entities, business units, or complex organizational structures.
- Experience with SAP data migration, integrations, financial master data, and reporting.
- Experience with SAP-enabled automation and process optimization.
- Experience working with external SAP system integrators and implementation partners.
- Experience in a complex, asset-intensive, manufacturing, consumer products, or similarly operational business environment.
- Demonstrated experience taking an ERP transformation from design through go-live and stabilization.
Pay Transparency
The expected starting salary range for this role is $215,000- $240,000 per year. The salary range posted for this role reflects the good-faith base pay range Kinder’s reasonably expects to offer at the time of posting and may vary based on the location of the role. Individual compensation within the posted range will be determined based on factors such as relevant education, experience, qualifications, skills, and business needs.
SEASONED FOR SUCCESS:
- No two days here are the same.
- We try to be good team members and good communicators, but we don’t live by hierarchy and structure – everyone is a difference maker here.
- We make a lot of decisions in the face of incomplete information – our team embraces ambiguity and tries to make good decisions fast rather than great decisions slow.
- We believe our job is to take smart risk, not to eliminate risk.
- We believe in growing our skills and becoming a better company with more managerial expertise, but we are an entrepreneurial company at heart.
- We aren’t trying to be average – we want to do exceptional things, and we are willing to work hard to achieve them.
BENEFITS THAT BRING MORE TO THE TABLE:
We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, 401k, bonus / incentive eligibility, equity grants, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits, including parental leave. Kinder’s benefits vary based on eligibility and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.
OUR RECIPE FOR BALANCE:
We believe great culture starts with people. We’re a people-first company built on connection, collaboration, and balance. Most of our work happens in the office to spark creativity and community, but we also offer flexibility so team members have the autonomy to work outside the office when needed to support their work-life balance and personal commitments.
WHERE EVERY INGREDIENT MATTERS:
Kinder's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need any accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, please reach out to us at careers@kinders.com
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