Duties & Responsibilities:

Panera is looking for an individual with a strong finance or financial planning background to serve as a finance business partner to our entire Café Operations team. This role will participate in key strategic discussions and provide thought leadership in areas including sales, labor, café operations, expense management and operating decisions. This role will also provide day-to-day finance and analytical support for cafe performance.

Personal competencies for success include the ability to master both strategic and operational issues, the ability to handle multiple competing priorities, outstanding teamwork and collaboration skills, excellent communication and relationship skills, a positive "can-do" attitude, good judgment, flexibility, curiosity, and knowing what you don't know.

If you have great problem-solving and quantitative skills, strong attention to detail and the ability to bridge finance and operations, we'd like to hear from you! We will ask you to leverage your talent and experience to contribute meaningfully to our business and culture; and we'll give you the information, tools, and mentors you need to succeed.

Accountabilities

Serve as a key finance business partner to our leadership team; perform high impact analyses of business results, identifying trends, variances, and potential opportunities.

Plan and forecast entire café 4 wall P&L for annual operating plan, monthly forecasts and weekly expectationsDeliver impactful weekly and monthly reporting packages to company leadership leveraging analytical and data visualization tools.Collaborate across the organization to develop end-to-end analyses in support of critical strategic decision-making.Communicate key findings to senior business leaders in monthly and ad hoc meetings.Build accurate analytical models using a variety of data and assumptions.Bring an understanding of operations finance to cross-functional analyses and reviews.Define key metrics to track within and across business units.Identify data sources, calculation methodologies, and control processes.Adapt quickly to changing organizational and team priorities - be ready to quickly jump into intellectually challenging problems facing the broader organization.

Qualifications (Education & Experience):

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years’ experience in either a corporate finance or planning role, investment banking or consulting firm.Restaurant or multi-unit retail experience a mustExperience in cash flow and profit and loss analysis.  General business analysis leading to operational change highly desired.Demonstrated ability to add value to an organization. A strong results-based orientation and the ability to deliver results on time.Excellent analytical and strategic planning skills, experience in both operational and corporate finance on a global basis preferred.Flexibility and the ability to deal with ambiguity; this individual will bring business maturity to situations.Proficiency in Excel and other analytical software…Anaplan experience preferredFamiliarity with dashboard and data visualization packagesPersonal commitment to excellence and appetite for successGreat sense of judgment and the humility to ask for advice.An attention to detail, a willingness to roll up your sleeves, and an intense drive to "get it right."

Working Conditions:

This position is a hybrid role, preference is to be in the Boston area and able to work in our Newton office as needed.

Physical Requirements:

While performing this job, the incumbent is regularly required to stand, sit, talk hear & use hands and fingers to operate keyboards.

Direct Reports:

This position will have 2 Direct Reports and a total team of 3.
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