Senior Financial Analyst - Bahama Breeze

Darden Restaurants - Orlando, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Orlando, FL

Food Services and Drinking Places

About the position

The Senior Financial Analyst will support the Bahama Breeze brand. The purpose of the job is to perform routine to highly complex financial analysis to support business initiatives according to established procedures, departmental guidelines and regulatory requirements applicable to the work. Additionally, the role provides analytical support to inform various marketing, menu and pricing strategies. Flexible work arrangements offered such as flexible start & end times and remote work options 1-2 days each week as business needs allow.

Responsibilities

• Independently and proactively provide reasonable solutions to complex problems for various Marketing, Culinary, and/or Operations initiatives
• Communicate complex information in a simplified manner to drive value-creating behaviors
• Maintain active communication with key business partners
• Prioritize actions based on needs of the team, focusing on impact and value creation
• Take the extra step to find answers to next-level questions
• Prepare and coordinate various weekly, monthly and year-end analyses, reports and financial records for management review
• Perform testing analysis to understand the risk and upside of potential marketing tactics, menu changes, etc.
• Provide analytical support in the planning and execution of pricing actions
• Teach fundamentals of analytical techniques, model building and business communication
• Provide guidance and coaching for key processes based on business expertise
• Perfect advanced analytical techniques, model building and business communication
• Prioritize effectively to move multiple concurrent projects to completion
• Increase the efficiency/effectiveness of reporting through: streamlining, removing, simplifying and/or automating.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with progressing responsibility in moderate to highly complex financial analysis and reporting functions
• Strong knowledge of Excel
• Excellent analytical skills, strong initiative and flexibility in analyzing results
• Project management experience

Nice-to-haves

• MBA, CPA or related advanced degree
• Understand analytical tools: R, Alteryx, robotic process automation
• Knowledge of statistics, corporate finance and/or accounting
• Knowledge of HFM, Oracle, MicroStrategy BI, OneStream or similar financial systems
• Self-starter willing to promote change when necessary
• Experience with performing testing analysis of potential business initiatives

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Remote work options 1-2 days each week as business needs allow