Sr. Finance Manager

Job Summary

The Senior Finance Manager will be a key senior-level position reporting to the location President. This position is responsible for supporting, directing, and coordinating all financial activity, including closing the books. It will lead the FP&A functions, drive financial strategy, build detailed forecasting, and provide analytical insights that support decision‑making at the Senior Executive level.

• Experience in food service industry preferred
• Organizational skills critical
• Project management development and implementation
• Ability to build and develop team and future leaders in the department
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to adapt quickly to changing priorities
• Ability to get buy‑in from leadership across the organization by building trusting relationships
• Ability to translate actions into financial impacts
• Strong work ethic and team‑player attitude
• Ability to travel
• Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience

• Consult with OpCo Leadership, Regional VPOs, Regional HR, Regional President, and other senior leadership as a business partner.
• Lead efforts of the monthly close process to ensure accurate financial statements and acceptable GAAP are in practice.
• Perform root cause analysis and partner with leadership and other functional areas to drive proactive solutions through process and technology solutions.
• Collaborate on Shrink and Service Excellence within the location.
• Partner with OpCo leadership to build out annual budgets and accurate, timely forecasts for OpCo, including AOP presentations.
• Conduct monthly business reviews with executives; analyze results of OpCo and provide insights for opportunities.
• Partner with local teams to create/implement action plans where there are gaps in budgets or opportunities to improve.
• Create a collaborative/supportive environment among leaders and the finance team to achieve goals and objectives.
• Lead and develop finance teams using key leadership techniques. Solicit feedback from both OpCo and Regional leadership to accelerate development opportunities.
• Complete ad‑hoc analysis for region and senior leadership.
• Build, challenge, and present customer profitability analysis as requested.
• Support senior leadership as requested.

• Bachelor’s in accounting, finance, or a related area
• 10+ years in a finance leadership role

Salary commensurate with experience