City Barbeque Looking for Senior Financial Analyst at Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area Full Time

City BBQ has 67 locations in 8 states and we should reach 100 joints by 2025. Our quick casual BBQ concept is recognized as one of the fastest growing in the industry and we have won awards for our BBQ in markets all over the country. In addition, City BBQ has been chosen by Columbus, Inc as a Top Employer in the city. What is important to us……we believe that relationship building, empathy, and intuition are all critical soft skills that impact every area. We also look for individuals who are driven by their own high self expectations and personal sense of duty. Community involvement has always been a high priority to us as we want to be a positive impact in the communities where we live and work side by side with our guests.

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. This person should have previous experience in a similar role and their skills/experience should line up with the job description below. Compensation will be highly competitive. In addition to a strong base salary, benefits includes 3 weeks paid vacation, holidays, insurance, 401K, and City BBQ Dining Privileges.

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Position Title: Sr Financial Analyst

Reports To: Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Position Description:

Analyzes data to identify trends, key indicators, patterns, and insights to help business leaders make the best decisions.

Essential Functions and Duties:

• Provides strategic, data driven insights, and recommendations to help make well informed business decisions. These insights will be holistic in view and not limited to a financial standpoint.
• Perform analysis on sales, consumer data, purchasing patterns, daypart analysis, inflation and pricing impacts, competitive analysis, product mix, and labor modeling.
• Work closely with Operations and Marketing teams and communicate financial reporting and analysis in a way that they will understand.
• Interpret results using various statistical and analytical techniques and tools, then synthesize those results into actionable insights.
• Perform weekly, monthly and quarterly trend analysis for the company and business units.
• Assist with weekly sales forecast and new store proformas.
• Perform monthly variance analysis to generate reports for management.
• Collect various industry data and compare to business unit financial performance.
• Analyze and support business unit forecasts and plans and provide insight to historical variations.
• Designs, develops, and implements the most valuable data-driven solutions for the organization.
• Uses market research and statistical methodologies and tools to perform analysis.
• Perform monthly and quarterly trend analysis for the company and business units versus performance targets.
• Provide decision support related to cost management opportunities and customer product/pricing rationale.
• Position eligible to work remotely but must live in a current City Barbeque market.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily, as assigned. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Proactive: must initiate analysis on their own and take initiative to challenge standard analysis and to look at new ways of solving problems.
• Intellectual curiosity: exhibit continuous drive to seek root cause of problems.
• Well-developed communication & interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Understanding and experience with spreadsheets, financial modeling, financial systems, databases and processes
• Excellent computer skills in various software platforms and Microsoft Office.
• Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) analysis and presentation tools.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or another related field.
• Demonstrated positive work ethic, work experience, proficiency and financial acumen in a high-growth, rapidly evolving environment.
• 4+ years in comparable financial analysis role.
• Restaurant experience preferred.