Senior Financial Analyst

Company Overview

ARS Brands, Inc. manages over 150 restaurant locations across five states, focusing on quick service restaurant operations. As the company rapidly expands, it seeks experienced financial professionals to join its team.

Role Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst will drive financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and operational analyses for ARS Brands' multi-unit restaurant operations. This role requires strong analytical capabilities, advanced financial modeling proficiency, a keen interest in business drivers, and collaboration with operations leadership to enhance performance. The position involves substantial interaction with executive management and offers influence over strategic decisions related to operations, growth, and profitability.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate the annual budgeting process and maintain monthly forecast cycles.
• Develop and refine strategic, long-term financial plans and business models.
• Conduct financial analyses to support critical operational and investment decisions.
• Manage and enhance models forecasting sales, labor, food costs, and profitability at the restaurant level.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly management reports highlighting performance.
• Perform variance analysis relative to budgets, forecasts, and prior periods to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Design dashboards and key performance indicator (KPI) reports for executive and operational teams.
• Collaborate with Operations leadership to assess performance metrics including same-store sales, guest traffic, average check, labor efficiency, food and paper costs, contribution margins, and EBITDA.
• Support growth initiatives through new location development, site selection analysis, and ROI/payback modeling for capital projects.
• Evaluate menu pricing strategies, promotional activities, and operational changes.
• Assist with reporting requirements for the Board, lenders, and investors.
• Automate routine reports and enhance reporting processes using Power BI or comparable tools.
• Work alongside Accounting and Finance teams to improve accuracy and consistency in financial reporting.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related disciplines.
• Minimum of five years' experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, accounting, or similar analytical fields.
• Advanced financial modeling skills and proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Competence in analyzing extensive data sets to generate actionable business insights.
• Strong communication and presentation abilities.
• Experienced working in dynamic, growth-focused environments.
• Background supporting multi-unit businesses such as restaurants, retail, hospitality, or consumer sectors.
• Knowledgeable in restaurant operating metrics and store-level profit and loss management.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools like Power BI.

Additional Skills and Attributes

• Alignment with ARS Brands corporate culture with a proactive approach to identifying and acting on opportunities.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, including negotiation skills.
• Supervisory experience and leadership competencies.
• Strong analytical and decision-making abilities within fast-paced environments.
• Effective interpersonal skills for interacting across all organizational levels.
• Proficiency with collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams.