Corporate Strategy Analyst - BJ's Restaurants
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
About the Job
At BJ’s Restaurants, we serve our award-winning craft beer, a Southern California twist on deep dish pizza, the world-renowned dessert – the Pizookie, and much more. BJ’s is a $1 billion public restaurant company and a growth concept with a winning track record of introducing new on-trend menu offerings and opening new restaurants.
BJ's Restaurants is looking for a curious and motivated individual with strong analytical skills to join our Corporate Strategy team as an Analyst. The Analyst works within the Finance team to provide support to the C-Suite and to help support strategic decisions of the Company. This includes providing clear concise financial information and recommendations on key initiatives to the Executive team and business leaders. You will love working here if you are a self-starter, like a dynamic business environment, like making recommendations and enjoy working with a talented finance team to influence the strategic vision and direction of the Company.
Responsibilities:- Work cross-functionally to identify growth opportunities in support of the company's key initiatives
- Conduct financial analyses to determine the impact of various companywide initiatives including the introduction of new menus, menu items, limited time promotions, and more
- Present findings and strategic recommendations to stakeholders and executive teams, clearly communicating complex data in an understandable way for informed decision-making.
- Identify areas for improving processes and reducing costs across the chain
- Analyze industry trends, competitive landscape, growth opportunities and internal performance
- Partner with department leaders on ad-hoc requests and sales driving initiatives
- Quantify the ROI of various sales driving initiatives and programs
- Prepare financial analysis for quarterly earnings calls and Board of Directors meetings
- Develop and/or improve company processes and financial reporting
- Bachelor's degree required
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience using BI tools a plus (Tableau, Power BI, Dossier in MSTR)
- Experience in the restaurant, retail or hospitality space is a plus
- Flexibility to work in an agile environment with changing priorities
- Be able to think outside the box and problem solve
- Self-starter who takes the initiative and challenges the status quo
- Must be extremely detail oriented, organized and able to manage competing priorities and deadlines
- Have a natural curiosity about the business and be comfortable questioning things that do not make sense
