FP&A Analyst

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Support the annual budgeting process, monthly forecasts, long-range planning, and ad hoc financial planning activities.
• Build and maintain unit-level financial models — new location openings, unit economics, labor strategy, and pricing — to evaluate investments and operational initiatives.
• Partner with business leaders to develop assumptions, validate forecasts, and continuously improve forecast accuracy at the unit level.
• Monitor business performance and proactively identify financial risks and opportunities.

Business Partnership

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to cross-functional leaders across the business.
• Translate financial results into clear, actionable business recommendations.
• Ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions, and help leaders make better decisions through data.
• Present analyses in a way that's clear and meaningful for both financial and non-financial audiences.

Strategic Finance

• Support strategic investment activity: build deal models (accretion/dilution, returns/IRR analysis), assist with financial due diligence, and support post-merger integration and synergy tracking.
• Conduct competitive benchmark analysis and help establish financial performance targets for new and existing units.

Analysis, Reporting & Process Improvement

• Prepare monthly reporting packages, KPI dashboards, variance analyses, and executive/Board presentations.
• Analyze sales, labor, cost of goods, operating expenses, and margins by unit to identify trends and explain performance.
• Build, maintain, and improve complex Excel models used across the organization; automate reporting wherever possible.
• Partner with Accounting during the month-end close to ensure results are accurate and aligned with the forecast.