Senior Finance & Strategy Analyst, Operations

Job Description

Job Description

Uses strong business acumen and communication skills working cross-functionally to support operations by providing actionable financial analysis, enabling key stakeholders within the business to drive performance.

The Financial Analyst will provide support of reporting and analytics, budgeting and forecasting and work with FP&A Manager and department leaders on long term strategic planning.

This position will also perform ad hoc analyses and presentations as required.

Key Accountabilities

Budgeting & Forecasting : Assist in the creation and oversight of the company budgets & forecasts : Work with the FP&A Manager & business leaders on a comprehensive & effective annual

budget & forecasting cycle. Produce ongoing sales and profitability reforecasts to account for current business trends and strategic initiatives providing key insight to senior management.

Reporting : Provide reporting of various business metrics & performance. Specific areas of focus will be as follows :

• Weekly / Period financials, various performance metrics and KPIs, profitability analysis.
• Key operations-level expense analysis with particular attention to Food Cost, Labor & Repairs & Maintenance.
• Produce weekly, period-end various analytical tools (Peer Group Trends & Analysis, Ideal Food Cost Reporting & Analysis, Labor trends & analysis, Sales & Labor forecasting and scheduling, Delivery Sales analysis, etc).
• Provide ad hoc reporting as requested by various departments.

Analysis & Decision Support : Support Operations, Marketing & Other Support Functions with analysis and decision support as follows :

• Profitability analysis - Understanding and quantifying the impact of various drivers and identifying trends / issues that need to be analyzed in greater detail.
• Investigate and answer questions regarding period-end financials concerning sales, discounts, food cost (commodity pricing versus mix), labor and other expenses.
• Cross-functional support of operations partnering with department leadership to better understand commodity price fluctuations, operation efficiencies, inventory accountability, third party sales and overall financial results.
• Cross-functional Marketing support : Provide Marketing with cross-functional support which includes financial insight on promotional offers, pricing, menu innovation and other various actionable financial commentary that helps to drive sales & profitability.

Decision Making Authority :

• Support the business by assisting with the oversight of a comprehensive budget & reforecasting model
• Support Key Business Metrics & Analysis through Report Creation & Analytical Tool Implementation & ongoing production

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills, Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance (MBA preferred) with at least 1 year of experience preferably in a multi-unit Financial Planning & Analysis function
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Products (Excel, PowerPoint), presentation & analysis, financial software applications with Query / Data Mining skills
• Proven knowledge and experience in strategic planning, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, informational analysis and diagnosis
• Intellectual & Analytical Curiosity with a passion to understand the intricacies of a function or initiative

Strong written and oral communication skills to all levels of the organization