Sr. Financial Analyst, Marketing Analysis - Cheddar's

Darden’s family of restaurants features some of the most recognizable and successful brands in full-service dining — Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Yard House, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, The Capital Grille, Chuy’s, Seasons 52, Eddie V’s and Bahama Breeze. We own and operate more than 2,100 restaurants and are proud to employ nearly 195,000 team members, making us one of the 50 largest private employers in America. Together, we create memorable experiences for more than 420 million guests annually in hundreds of communities across North America.

Darden’s finance team encompasses both corporate and brand-specific roles that focus on FP&A as well as providing direct decision-making support for our operations, marketing, human resources and technology teams. We nurture career development with a pro-active rotation program focused on developing well-rounded future leaders.

Job Overview

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 provide analytical support to inform various marketing, menu and pricing strategies.

Roles And 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.
  
  

Required Technical Skills

• 4 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
  
  

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related field
  
  

Other Key Qualifications

• Drive results through analysis
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Meet aggressive deadlines with accurate and concise analyses
• Prioritize effectively to move multiple concurrent projects to completion
• Self-starter willing to promote change when necessary
• Teach fundamental analytical technique
• Understand advanced analytical technique, breakdown complex concepts
• Fully own projects
  
  

Preferred Skills And Experience

• MBA or related advanced degree
• Certified Public Accountant license
• Chartered Financial Analyst
• 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