Senior Financial Analyst

Einstein Bros Bagels • Denver, CO

23d • $95,000 - $105,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst supports Bagel Brands’ financial planning, performance analysis, and decision-making by delivering accurate reporting, rigorous analysis, and actionable business insights. The role is a key financial partner to Operations and Support Center leaders, helping optimize labor investments, improve productivity, and align staffing plans with business performance.

The analyst works with a high degree of independence and ownership, translating complex financial and operational data into clear insights and recommendations. The role partners with Operations and other functions to understand business drivers, explain financial results, and identify actions that may improve performance. This is an in-office, hybrid position requiring three days per week at Bagel Brands’ Denver corporate office.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, finance, accounting, analytics, or a related discipline.
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, variance analysis, and business performance analysis capabilities.
• Advanced Excel skills, including working with large datasets, building financial models, and performing complex analysis.
• Ability to translate financial and operational data into clear insights and actionable business recommendations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to independently investigate financial trends and performance drivers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present financial information effectively to business partners.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and recurring deliverables while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across functions.
• High degree of integrity, confidentiality, and professional judgment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with reporting, analytics, or visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Experience within restaurant, hospitality, retail, franchise, or another multi-unit consumer environment.
• Experience supporting business performance analysis.
• Experience improving or automating financial reporting and analytical processes.
• Exposure to planning, financial reporting, and FP&A or ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Own recurring labor and operating expense reporting packages and dashboards that provide visibility into labor performance, productivity, staffing trends, and operational KPIs.
• Analyze store-level, market-level, and enterprise labor performance and provide actionable insights and recommendations to Operations leadership.
• Investigate labor variances and identify root causes related to staffing levels, wage trends, overtime, and operational execution.
• Investigate operating expense variances and identify root causes related to execution and vendor management.
• Prepare monthly reporting and executive-level presentations summarizing labor performance, key risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Own assigned components of budgeting and forecasting, ensuring assumptions and inputs are accurate, timely, and aligned with company goals.
• Develop and maintain financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate business initiatives, performance outcomes, and potential investment decisions.
• Partner with Finance and cross-functional leaders to develop, challenge, and refine planning assumptions.
• Analyze actual performance against forecasts and identify emerging trends that may affect future results.
• Recommend forecast and assumption adjustments based on business performance and evolving conditions.
• Serve as a strategic financial partner to Operations and support field leaders in understanding labor trends, productivity metrics, and the financial impacts of operational decisions.
• Build relationships with business partners to understand operational drivers and connect financial results to underlying business activity.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial reporting, dashboards, models, and analytical processes.
• Support automation and process improvements that increase the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of FP&A activities.
• Maintain high standards of accuracy, organization, documentation, and financial integrity across analyses and reporting.
• Communicate complex financial information clearly and confidently, translating analysis into meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Take ownership of assigned processes, analyses, forecasts, and deliverables, independently driving work to completion with accuracy and timeliness.
• Navigate changing priorities, evolving business needs, and ambiguous financial questions while maintaining analytical rigor.
• Build productive partnerships across Finance and the business, share knowledge and insights, and contribute expertise that helps others make informed decisions.
• Seek to understand business drivers, ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions, and proactively identify opportunities for deeper analysis and improved performance.
• Demonstrate sound professional judgment, incorporate feedback, and recognize when to work independently or seek additional perspective and alignment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior