Strategic Business Partner
This role serves as a strategic business partner to executive leadership and field operations, delivering actionable financial insights that support restaurant performance, labor optimization, and enterprise-wide growth initiatives. This role plays a critical part in aligning store-level economics with corporate objectives, providing forward-looking analysis, and enabling disciplined decision-making across operations, labor planning, and franchising strategies.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted finance partner to Restaurant Operations leadership by translating complex operational and labor data into clear, actionable insights.
• Provide executive-level reporting and analysis on restaurant performance, labor productivity, staffing models, and margin drivers across daily, weekly, and monthly cadences.
• Lead financial analysis of store labor allocations, productivity metrics, and scheduling assumptions to support optimal staffing and cost control while protecting the guest experience.
• Partner with Operations, HR, and other cross-functional partners to develop, evaluate, and refine labor models, wage assumptions, and deployment strategies at the store level.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning by incorporating operational drivers, labor dynamics, and field-level initiatives.
• Evaluate the financial implications of franchising models, transition timing, and operator economics to inform executive and board-level decisions.
• Continuously enhance reporting frameworks, tools, and processes to improve visibility into operational performance and labor efficiency.
• Mentor and develop team members on operational finance best practices, systems, and analytical capabilities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Education: Bachelor's degree (MBA preferred).
• Experience: 5+ Years
• Advanced computer skills using the Microsoft Suite, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Ability to mine data to create impactful management reports.
• Ability to draft correspondence that accompanies requests for information in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to communicate verbally with senior executives.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to understand and re-engineer processes through systems implementation and other means.