Sr. Manager, Field Finance
About The Position
The Senior Field Finance Manager serves as a strategic business partner, leading margin improvement initiatives, field wage strategy, and labor cost governance, while translating complex financial data into clear insights and recommendations for executive leadership. This role owns end-to-end restaurant unit economics, partnering closely with Restaurant Operations, People & Culture, and Finance leadership to ensure disciplined cost management, profitable growth, and strong return on capital investments. This role is responsible for developing and leading a team that provides sales forecasts, unit-level P&L insights, labor and cost analysis, and performance management tools that help operators achieve profitability and operational excellence. The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of restaurant economics, strong business acumen, and the ability to build trust and credibility with operators and field leaders. This role is a key connector between Finance and the front line, ensuring that financial insights directly support day-to-day execution and long-term business goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or CPA preferred.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or corporate finance.
- Prior experience supporting multi-unit restaurant operations, food manufacturing, CPG, or supply chain–intensive environments strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience owning large P&Ls and driving margin improvement initiatives.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modeling; experience with BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker) preferred.
- Highly proficient in data analytics
- Working knowledge of ERP, payroll, and operational systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, UKG, Crunchtime) a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to forecast restaurant sales, labor, COGS, and controllable line items.
- Field Labor Strategy: Provide primary financial analysis and decision support for the company’s corporate restaurant portfolio; monitor & optimize unit economics and returns to ensure locations meet financial hurdles and profit expectations. Support labor scheduling, modeling, and planning - build tools and processes to help restaurants optimize labor scheduling.
- Expense Management: Partner with FP&A and Operations to manage Cost of Labor and other variable expenses through period close, quarterly forecasts, and the annual operating plan; prepare forecasts, variance analyses, and trend explanations for leadership review.
- Cost Optimization: Support margin improvement by identifying and quantifying annual savings opportunities with Food Innovation, Supply Chain, and Operations; perform cost and ROI analyses across labor, food, waste, yield, logistics, and manufacturing efficiency initiatives.
- Field Performance Enablement: Benchmark restaurant and manufacturing performance against top-tier performers to identify margin and productivity opportunities; develop performance analyses and tools to support regional leadership and Operations partners in executing improvements and tracking financial impact.
- Support new restaurant openings through financial modeling and business case development; contribute to long-range planning and multi-year outlooks for restaurants.
- Build capability in restaurant leaders and RSC teams on managing restaurant P&L and all controllable line items.
- Prepare executive-ready presentations summarizing strategy, performance trends, risks, and recommendations; partner with Payroll and Total Reward to ensure accurate execution of wage and incentive plans and support strong financial controls and data integrity.
Benefits
- Competitive Pay & Benefits
- Employer Contribution for individuals and eligible dependents' medical insurance
- Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- 401(k) Plan with company match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Discounts through BenefitHub
- Employee Meal Discounts
- Paid Time Off (PTO) to support work-life balance (accrued based on length of service)
- Paid Sick Leave (PSL) to care for your health or loved ones
- Quarterly Wellness Days - extra time off to recharge every season
- Car Allowance
- Bonus Eligible
- Opportunities for growth; we love promoting within
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
