Senior Financial Analyst - Restaurant Industry

TooJay’s Deli • West Palm Beach, FL

Reports to: CEO (dotted line to CFO)

A multi-unit restaurant chain with a commissary/bakery, catering, and off-premises operations dedicated to delivering exceptional guest experiences and sustainable growth.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will transform complex operational data from POS,

Restaurant365, online ordering, and bakery/commissary systems into actionable insights. Your analysis will drive sales growth, enhance guest satisfaction, and maximize profit margins across all locations.

• →Develop and publish weekly store-level reports on sales, traffic, mix, pricing, volume, labor, COGS, variances, and action plans with assigned owners and deadlines.
• →Maintain a unified set of KPIs aligned with the P&L; ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• →Build rolling 6–8-week forecasts by location, daypart, and channel (dine-in, takeout, delivery, catering).
• →Lead menu engineering efforts, analyzing product mix and contribution margins; recommend pricing and portion adjustments with quantifiable impact.
• →Set and monitor sales-per-labor-hour (SPLH) targets; evaluate staffing deployment, overtime, and schedule effectiveness.
• →Analyze food cost performance versus theoretical models; identify drivers such as recipes, yields, waste, and data entry errors; lead corrective actions.
• →Collaborate with the commissary/bakery to optimize yields, batch sizes, and labor efficiency.
• →Evaluate throughput and operational capacity, including ticket times, table turns, bottlenecks, and expo flow.
• →Measure and optimize promotional and LTO lift, ROI, and operational impact.
• →Link online marketplace ratings to labor, training, and product quality; oversee resolution tracking.
• →Develop dashboards and metrics for catering, tracking delivery performance, remake/credit rates, and upsell opportunities.
• →Build catering funnel and repeat dashboards; track on-time delivery, remake/credit %, attach/upsell rates.
• →Administer Ecotrak: Oversee system operations and data entry.
• →Maintain Preventive Maintenance Calendars: Schedule and track routine maintenance activities.
• →Asset & Warranty Tracking: Monitor asset conditions and warranty expiry dates.
• →Cost Management: Analyze and recommend CAPEX (capital expenditures) versus OPEX (operational expenditures) for maintenance.
• →Cost Reduction Goals: Drive initiatives to lower R&M costs as a percentage of sales and reduce mean time to repair (MTTR).
• →Support restaurant remodels with 4-wall cash flow analysis, payback, and IRR projections.
• →Establish dashboards, cadences, SOPs, testing protocols, document operational playbooks.
• →Assist in creating sales and profit growth plans for individual stores.

Prepare concise, insight-driven reports and presentations for the CEO and executive team, highlighting risks, opportunities, savings trackers, and next steps.

• 3–6+ years in Finance/Accounting, data analysis, Financial Planning & Analysis, ideally in multi-unit restaurants.
• Proven expertise with Restaurant365 (R365): reporting, recipe costing, food cost modeling, and GL reconciliation is a plus.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills; working SQL experience; familiarity with BI tools.
• Experience with POS systems, online ordering platforms (DoorDash, Uber Eats), scheduling, and HRIS systems.
• Strong financial acumen with knowledge of contribution margins, flow-through, IRR, and payback analysis.
• Exceptional communicator—able to translate data into clear, actionable recommendations for operators and leadership.
• Empathy for operators and understanding of restaurant operational challenges.

• Forecast error (MAPE) within 5–8% by week/location.
• Reduced COGS variance aligned with targeted basis points.
• Achievement of labor percentage and SPLH goals.
• Menu mix quality improved (share of Stars, item contribution margin).
• Strong ROI on promos, catering repeat rate, and new initiatives.
• On-time, full delivery of reports and executive summaries.

Restaurant365, POS & online marketplaces, Excel/Google Sheets, SQL, review platforms, scheduling, HRIS.