FP&A Analyst, Logistics & Fresh Delivery Hawkins

Since its founding in 1937, Krispy Kreme's focus has remained the same - making fresh doughnuts using our founder's original recipe. The brand's iconic Hot Light lets consumers know when doughnuts are being made in the shop so they can stop in and enjoy them hot, right off the line.

Krispy Kreme's FP&A Analyst - Fresh Logistics & DFD partners with Operations, Logistics, and DFD teams to provide financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis for the end-to-end distribution of freshly made doughnuts from production facilities to fresh shops and DFD locations. This role focuses on the economics of time-sensitive, high-frequency distribution and direct fulfillment, ensuring cost efficiency, service reliability, and scalable growth while maintaining product freshness and quality standards.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Develop and maintain budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans for Logistics and DFD operations
• Analyze monthly actuals vs. budget/forecast and provide clear explanations of key variances
• Support monthly close activities, including accruals for transportation, delivery labor, and distribution costs
• Build financial models to evaluate volume growth, route density, delivery frequency and capacity utilization.

Logistics & DFD Business Support

• Partner closely with Production, Logistics, Operations, and DFD teams to understand the cost and service drivers of fresh doughnut distribution
• Analyze costs associated with routes, including fleet, fuel, labor, maintenance, and third-party delivery services
• Assess the financial impact of freshness requirements, service levels, and delivery timing on overall cost-to-serve
• Support DFD initiatives through unit economics and cost-to-serve analysis at door, customer and channel levels
• Evaluate the scalability and profitability of new DFD location expansions from a distribution cost perspective

Reporting & Insights

• Prepare recurring and ad-hoc reporting for leadership on fresh logistics and DFD performance
• Develop and monitor KPIs such as cost per route, cost per delivery, cost per dozen, delivery frequency efficiency, and fulfillment margin
• Identify cost trends, capacity constraints, and efficiency opportunities while maintaining service standards
• Translate operational data into clear financial insights and actionable recommendations

Process Improvement & Controls

• Improve forecasting accuracy for fresh logistics volumes, routes, and delivery costs
• Help standardize methodologies for tracking and allocating of distribution costs across shops and DFD locations
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and track financial benefits from route optimization, productivity, and cost-reduction efforts

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in FP&A, finance, or analytical roles
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with BI tools a plus
• Ability to communicate financial insights to operational partners
• Experience working with ERP and operational data systems
• Experience supporting fresh food, QSR, bakery, or time-sensitive distribution environments preferred
• Familiarity with route-based distribution, last-mile delivery, or company-owned fleet economics a plus
• Strong business partnering and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Detail-oriented with the ability to balance cost, service, and freshness requirements
• Proactive, analytical, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

* The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. The…