Sr Financial Analyst (Operations Analysis) - Red Lobster

The Senior Financial Analyst – Operations Analysis is responsible for driving improved profitability at the restaurant level by developing proactive solutions, analyzing business impact and aligning action plans in partnership with the Operations Excellence team.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

• Partner with Operations Leadership, Finance Leadership, and Restaurant Management teams to forecast and evaluate performance to ensure achievement of financial commitments.
• Lead cross-functional development, implementation and monitoring of plans that improve restaurant earnings with strong focus on waste management and labor productivity.
• Identify, analyze and communicate emerging trends so business action is prioritized appropriately.
• Support restaurants that are below earnings targets through outlier identification and analysis.
• Proactively identify discrepancies in data, determine root cause and communicate solutions.
• Prepare and cocommunicate various analyses and reports needed by business leaders to communicate business performance.

• 3+ years’ experience in an analytical role exemplifying initiative and accuracy
• Proven strong financial and analytical skills
• Proven spreadsheet and data retrieval skills (MicroStrategy experience preferred)
• Demonstrates the capability to build financial models and apply forecasting techniques with an emphasis on statistical analysis of economic and financial data
• Strong project management skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or related field
• MBA Preferred

• Knowledge of restaurant operations.
• Strong verbal, written and facilitation skills
• Proven experience analyzing, prioritizing, and problem solving
• Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Ability to interact professionally with internal and external business partners
• Self-starter willing to promote change when necessary
• Professional curiosity and initiative to identify and present improvement opportunities
• Ability to prioritize effectively to move multiple concurrent projects to completion