Senior Financial Operations Analyst

Confidential; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Field visits

Job summary

Confidential in Atlanta seeks a highly analytical Senior Associate, Finance & Operations, to join its corporate team. The role combines sales forecasting, operational analysis, cash management, and strategic finance projects in a lean, entrepreneurial environment.

You will own forecasting, maintain store-level projections, and deliver analyses for ownership and field leadership. The position offers hybrid work with in-person collaboration and periodic field visits to operating locations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in multi-unit finance, FP&A, or operations analytics.
• Experience supporting a multi-location organization is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with POS, back-office, payroll, or multi-unit systems is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Own sales forecasting and projection models across a multi-location portfolio.
• Load and maintain store-level daily sales projections in financial systems.
• Monitor performance against forecast and identify variances by location.
• Deliver ad hoc financial and operational analyses for ownership and field leadership.
• Analyze cost drivers such as utilities, maintenance, and labor trends.
• Support pricing analysis and strategic pricing with senior leadership.
• Build and maintain reporting tools and financial models for visibility.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Operational reporting

Communication skills

Tools

POS systems

Job description

A growing, well-capitalized multi-unit consumer-services organization is seeking a highly analytical and hands-on Senior Associate, Finance & Operations to join its corporate team in Atlanta.

This is a unique opportunity for a finance professional who wants broad business exposure and meaningful ownership in a lean, entrepreneurial environment. The position sits at the center of the organization, combining sales forecasting, operational analysis, cash and payment management, technology administration, facilities support, and strategic finance projects.

Reporting directly to ownership, the Senior Associate will work closely with a small corporate team, outsourced accounting partners, operational leaders, lenders, and other external stakeholders. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable building financial models, solving day-to-day operational issues, managing deadlines, and stepping into whatever needs to be done to support a fast-moving multi-unit business.

What You’ll Do:

• Own sales forecasting and projection models across a multi-location operating portfolio.
• Load and maintain store-level, daily sales projections within the company’s financial and operational systems.
• Monitor sales, labor, and other operational performance against forecast; identify trends, variances, and locations that may be falling off plan.
• Deliver ad hoc financial and operational analysis for ownership and field leadership.
• Analyze cost drivers, including utility expenses, maintenance spending, labor trends, and other operating costs.
• Support pricing, profitability, and strategic pricing analysis alongside senior leadership.
• Build and maintain reporting tools and financial models that improve business visibility and decision-making.

Cash, Treasury & Accounting Support

• Manage daily payment operations, including ACH exceptions, payment approvals, and issue resolution.
• Maintain a rolling cash forecast and proactively identify potential cash-flow issues.
• Support treasury processes and payment activity across multiple systems and vendors.
• Manage key administrative calendars, including property-tax deadlines and other recurring financial obligations.
• Serve as a primary liaison to the outsourced accounting team throughout the monthly close process.
• Help ensure timely, accurate communication and follow-up on finance and operational matters.

Systems, Facilities & Operations

• Administer user access, mapping, and other core system needs across financial, restaurant, point-of-sale, payroll, and back-office platforms.
• Support the organization’s technology environment and ensure critical business systems are maintained and effectively utilized.
• Maintain facilities, maintenance, and equipment-tracking tools across the operating portfolio.
• Monitor maintenance budgets and help improve visibility into site-level repair, capital, and operating needs.
• Support periodic field visits, operational meetings, and cross-functional projects as business needs require.

Strategic & Stakeholder Support

• Draft responses, reports, and supporting materials for franchisor, lender, investor, and other external stakeholder requests.
• Assist with acquisition underwriting, transaction diligence, and analysis for growth opportunities.
• Support ownership and senior leadership with special projects, strategic initiatives, and business planning.
• Help improve processes, reporting, systems, and operational controls as the company continues to grow.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in multi-unit restaurant, retail, hospitality, consumer-services, corporate finance, FP&A, transaction advisory, consulting, or another analytically rigorous environment.
• Experience supporting a multi-location organization is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with point-of-sale, back-office, payroll, or multi-unit operating systems is a strong advantage.
• Advanced Excel and financial-modeling capabilities, including experience building, maintaining, and improving operating models.
• Strong understanding of forecasting, budgeting, cash-flow management, financial analysis, and operational reporting.
• Comfort handling both strategic analysis and detailed transactional work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to prepare clear, professional materials for senior leaders and external stakeholders.
• Highly organized, dependable, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

This is an Atlanta-based hybrid opportunity, with an expected schedule of 2-3 days per week in the office. The position will also include periodic field visits to operating locations and occasional in-person meetings as business needs require.

This role is not fully remote.

Why This Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional who wants to move beyond a narrow FP&A or accounting role and develop a broad operational-finance toolkit. You will gain direct exposure to ownership, play a visible role in the day-to-day performance of a multi-unit business, and contribute to forecasting, cash management, systems, operational decision-making, and future growth initiatives.