FP&A Specialist, Restaurant Analytics (100% Remote)

We are seeking a sharp FP&A professional to help build the financial planning, reporting, and analytics engine for a newly acquired franchise restaurant business within a growing investment and operating platform. This is a high-ownership role for someone who loves digging into the numbers, building scalable tools, partnering with operators, and turning complex restaurant performance data into insights that leadership can act on.

Company / Team / Position highlights:

• Confidential search supporting a newly acquired franchise restaurant platform
• Business operations across the U.S.
• High-visibility role with regular exposure to senior leadership
• Opportunity to help build the FP&A foundation for a complex multi-unit restaurant and franchise business
• Broad ownership across budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, KPI reporting, dashboards, and ad hoc analytics
• Lean, entrepreneurial environment where strong performers can have real impact quickly
• Great fit for someone who wants meaningful ownership rather than a narrow corporate finance seat

Broad responsibilities:

• Build and maintain financial models, budgets, forecasts, and rolling projections
• Analyze performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods
• Perform variance analysis across sales, labor, food costs, controllable expenses, G&A, royalties, franchise fees, margins, and other key operating drivers
• Partner with accounting during month-end close to review results, investigate variances, and prepare management commentary
• Create reporting packages, dashboards, and templates that improve visibility into unit-level, brand-level, and consolidated performance
• Analyze restaurant and franchise KPIs including sales trends, traffic, average check, labor productivity, food cost, unit economics, and profitability
• Partner with finance leadership, accounting, operations, and cross-functional teams to connect operational activity to financial impact
• Help build scalable FP&A processes, reporting routines, and analytical tools for a newly acquired business
• Support acquisition integration, profitability improvement, pricing, cost control, labor trend, and growth-related analyses
• Prepare clear, actionable insights and materials for leadership reviews and operating discussions

Qualifications:

• 3–6 years of FP&A, financial analysis, corporate finance, accounting, or related analytical finance experience
• Strong Excel, financial modeling, P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis skills
• Experience building models, reports, dashboards, or processes in a lean or evolving environment
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into practical business insights
• Comfort working closely with accounting, operations, finance leadership, and non-finance stakeholders
• Restaurant, franchise, hospitality, multi-unit retail, consumer, or PE-backed experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field