Senior Financial Analyst (Hybrid)

Rewards-Network; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive PTO & holidays

Dining reimbursement with restaurant|

401(k) plan with company match

Medical: PPO/HDHP options

Rx n Go partnership

Dental plan

Vision plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter benefit

Short/Long term disability

Life & AD&D insurance

Hybrid office downtown near Metra/Ogil

Job summary

Rewards Network in Chicago is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the FP&A team. You will partner with Marketing and Partnerships to analyze consumer offers, incentives, and go-to-market strategies, delivering data-driven recommendations to balance financial goals with partner needs.

You will build dashboards and models, provide executive-level analyses, and own budgeting and offer economics to drive value for restaurants and members alike.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, or related analytical roles.
• Experience supporting Sales, Partners, Marketing, or Strategic initiatives.
• Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and business analysis skills.
• Ability to translate complex analyses into executive-level recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior leaders across Marketing, Partnerships, Finance, and Accounting as trusted financial advisor.
• Develop scalable reporting, dashboards, and analytics to improve visibility and insights.
• Prepare executive analyses for leadership including strategic reviews and investment proposals.
• Create driver-based offer models optimizing activation, revenue, and costs.
• Own offer economics and budgeting to maximize profitability.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial modeling

Executive-level recommendations

Multi-priority handling

Analytical mindset

Education

MBA or CFA preferred

Tools

Power Query

SQL

DAX

Python

PowerBI

Job description

Celebrating 41 years in business, Rewards Network has helped restaurants increase their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement through our innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers. Our offers leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, providing value to our restaurants, diners, and strategic partners' loyalty programs.

Our Culture

At Rewards Network, you will find a passionate and diverse group of professionals that enjoy working collaboratively, solving problems, and taking ownership of not only their own careers and success, but the success and continued growth of the organization. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to bring full price paying customers and better ways to access working capital options to local restaurants. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment where you can maximize your potential.

Job Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team! The team serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, driving financial decision-making, long-term value creation, and operational excellence across the company.We are seeking a highly analytical, commercially minded, and collaborative Senior Financial Analyst to serve as the primary finance business partner for the Marketing and Partnerships teams.

In this highly visible role, you will drive business growth by analyzing consumer marketing offers, incentives, and go-to-market strategies and providing data-driven recommendations that balance the company’s financial goals with the needs of its partners, members, and restaurants to create value for all stakeholders. This role requires innate curiosity, an analytical mindset, strong technical capabilities, and excellent communication skills to discover, communicate, and create transformative business value.

What you’ll bring to the table: (Responsibilities)

• Collaborate with senior leaders and teams across Marketing, Partnerships, Finance, and Accounting as the go-to, trusted financial advisor
• Develop scalable reporting, dashboards, and analytics that improve visibility and afford actionable insights
• Prepare executive-level analyses and recommendations for the leadership team including strategic reviews, investment proposals, and key business initiatives
• Create and maintain automated, driver-based, financial offer models that optimize offer performance across offer activation, revenue, and costs
• Own the offer economics and budgeting process, ensuring financial viability, profitability, and maximizing business value

Do you have the right mix of ingredients: (Requirements)

• 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting or related analytical roles
• Experience supporting Sales, Partners, Marketing, or Strategic initiatives
• Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and business analysis skills
• Expertise to translate complex analyses into clear, actionable executive-level recommendations
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced, complex, and evolving environment

Preferred Skills

• Experience in pricing strategy, offers designing, promotion and campaign performance analysis, revenue and margin optimization, customer segmentation, profitability analysis, product portfolio optimization, market share analysis, and/or other advanced quantitative analyses to drive data driven business initiatives
• Strong combination of finance, computer science, or data analytics expertise, with hands‑on experience in Power Query, SQL, DAX, Python and PowerBI
• Advanced business or finance credentials (MBA or CFA preferred)

What you’ll love about us:

• This is a full time, exempt position, and the base compensation for this opening is expected to be $90 ,000-$115,000, depending on level, candidate experience, skills and other factors. This position is eligible for a 10% bonus with a total compensation of $99,000-$126,500.
• Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
• Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
• 401(k) plan with a company match
• Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
• Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
• Dental plan options and a vision plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
• Short Term and Long Term disability
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
• Employee Life Assistance Program
• Hybrid working space in our state of the art office downtown located by the Metra and Ogilvie train stations

Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.

Expected Pay Range

$90,000 - $115,000 USD