Senior Financial Analyst

The Senior Financial Analyst supports Bagel Brands’ financial planning, performance analysis, and decision-making by delivering accurate reporting, rigorous analysis, and actionable business insights. This role serves as a key financial partner to Operations and Support Center leaders, helping optimize labor investments, improve productivity, and ensure alignment between staffing plans and business performance.

The Senior Financial Analyst operates with a high degree of independence and ownership, translating complex financial and operational data into clear insights and recommendations that inform business decisions. In alignment with Bagel Brands’ Mission, Vision, and Values, this role brings curiosity, financial rigor, and strong partnership to the work—helping the organization understand not only what is happening in the business, but why it is happening and what actions may improve performance.

Department:
Finance

Annual Salary: $95,000 to $105,000

This position is an in office, hybrid 3 days per week, position located at the Denver corporate office. Address: 1720 S. Bellaire Street, Denver, CO 80222

• Own recurring labor and operating expense reporting packages and dashboards that provide visibility into labor performance, productivity, staffing trends, and operational KPIs.
• Analyze store-level, market-level, and enterprise labor performance, providing actionable insights and recommendations to Operations leadership.
• Investigate labor variances and identify root causes related to staffing levels, wage trends, overtime, and operational execution.
• Investigate operating expense variances and identify root causes related to execution and vendor management.
• Prepare monthly reporting and executive level presentations that summarize labor performance, key risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.

• Own assigned components of the budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring assumptions and inputs are accurate, timely, and aligned with company goals.
• Develop and maintain financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate business initiatives, performance outcomes, and potential investment decisions.
• Partner with Finance and cross-functional leaders to develop, challenge, and refine planning assumptions.
• Analyze actual performance against forecasts and identify emerging trends that may impact future results.
• Recommend adjustments to forecasts and assumptions based on business performance and evolving conditions.

• Serve as a strategic financial partner to Operations, providing financial insights that support field execution and operational decision-making. Support field leaders in understanding labor trends, productivity metrics, and financial impacts of operational decisions.
• Build effective relationships with business partners to understand operational drivers and connect financial results to underlying business activity.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial reporting, dashboards, models, and analytical processes.
• Support automation and process improvements that increase the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of FP&A activities.
• Maintain high standards of accuracy, organization, documentation, and financial integrity across analyses and reporting.

• Effective Communication:
  Communicates complex financial information clearly and confidently, translating analysis into meaningful insights and recommendations for Finance leaders and cross-functional business partners.
• Accountability & Ownership:
  Takes ownership of assigned financial processes, analyses, forecasts, and…