As our Senior Partner, you will be a
hands-on finance partner focused on many restaurant planning responsibilities, focusing
primarily on operating expenses, pre-opening spend, and operational planning
support. You will help build budgets and forecasts, analyze performance,
identify risks and opportunities, and translate financial results into clear
recommendations for Operations and cross-functional leadership. This
role is especially important during budgeting season. We are looking for
someone who can ramp quickly, understand the mechanics of restaurant-level
financials, work comfortably with large datasets, and partner with operators
and cross-functional teams to keep assumptions, reporting, and decisions
moving.
We
are looking for someone who is very familiar with emerging technology,
including new methods of collecting and applying data insights. This individual must be passionate about the
restaurant business and our brand.
What
You’ll Do:
· Support
budgeting, forecasting, and monthly performance analysis for restaurant OPEX
and pre-opening line items, ensuring assumptions are clear, current, and tied
to operational drivers.
· Own variance
analysis for assigned expense lines, comparing actual results to budget,
forecast, and prior year while identifying the key drivers, risks, and
opportunities behind performance.
· Partner
closely with Operations, Development, Accounting, and Finance to understand
cost trends, validate inputs, resolve data gaps, and support decisions across
the restaurant portfolio.
· Build and
maintain planning models, recurring reports, dashboards, and tools that help
leaders monitor OPEX, pre-opening costs, and restaurant-level performance.
· Support
budget season execution by preparing templates, collecting and validating
inputs, reconciling version-to-version changes, documenting assumptions, and
helping leaders stay aligned on timing and outputs.
· Assist with
month-end close activities related to assigned expense areas, including accrual
support, prepaid reviews, expense validation, and follow-up on unusual trends.
· Translate
financial results into concise commentary and action-oriented insights for
field leaders, cross-functional partners, and FP&A leadership.<