Financial Director

Overview

At Chick-fil-A Fairview Heights, we believe the world needs more and better leaders, and we are committed to developing leaders within our community. Our Team Members are an important part of our story. We strive to be more than a restaurant – a community and a home where leaders grow alongside us.

Work with all staff, vendors, and the community in pursuit of excellent and profitable operations and financial management. This role is an ambassador, leader, and critical component ensuring that Chick-fil-A Fairview Heights is successful in the following areas:

• Financial Stewardship and return.
• Leadership and People Development

• Create a culture of excellence in financial stewardship and return by creating, leading, and implementing systems that will be the standard for innovation and high performance teams throughout the Chick-fil-A chain.
• Represent the Chick-fil-A brand to the Fairview Heights community and build long-term relationships with people.
• Learn how to both spend money with a maximum return on investment and be generous.
• Coach leadership and Team Members on implementing and following systems and other best practices for financial stewardship.
• Stay up to date with the business by checking daily, weekly, and monthly progress on goals and having meetings with relevant leadership.
• Perform discipline for actions that do not meet Chick-fil-A standards and execute discipline documentation for all team members who fail to meet employment expectations.
• Drive sales building and stewardship mentality and encourage creativity and innovation throughout the business.

• Complete labor scheduling in a way that positively impacts the business for labor costs and allows proper execution of Winning Hearts Every Day Strategy.
• Stay up to date with best practices in scheduling and labor cost control.
• Track employee time punches and adjust any variances.
• Track deductions (uniform, shoes, cash shortage, etc.).
• Track vacation time and any recurring bonuses (or withhold for disciplinary reasons if necessary).
• Issue payments for any other non-recurring Team Member benefits when qualifications are met (tuition assistance, referral bonus, etc.).

• End-of-Month inventory counts and input accuracy.
• Accurately tracking unit transfers.
• Effective and efficient ordering and receiving.
• Overall inventory and store organization.
• Familiar with all products and ingredients and cost trends.
• Be very familiar with the P&L and restaurant trends and create and execute sustainable systems and solutions pertaining to cost gaps.
• Set waste goals for the TEAM.
• Minimize unnecessary keystrokes and refunds.
• Coach leaders and team members on the D.R.I.P. model.
• Stay up to date with best practices in cost control.
• Perform spot counts daily.
• Understand any other relevant reports and identify other opportunities to increase profit.
• Oversee all waste and cost tracking systems and verify that accurate information is being captured.
• Verify and coach Team Members and Team Leaders follow all recipe and portioning procedures consistently to minimize food waste.
• Lead labor management through tracking systems and productivity benchmarks to ensure the entire restaurant is on track to reach financial objectives.
• Assist in scheduling and execution of R&M schedules throughout the restaurant and all necessary PM is done to maximize equipment performance.
• Expert knowledge on products and pricing for both regular menu and catering menu.

• Oversee entire accounting system.
• Input vendors in systems and pay vendors.
• Bill to be collected sales.
• Daily reporting.
• Oversee operating cash flow system (such as change fund), change orders, and relevant processes and security practices.

• Work with Operator to complete Annual Business Plan.
• Create quarterly plans based on business fluctuations, goals, and need for the Teams.

• Strategic thinker, goal-oriented, Tech-savvy
• Completes all necessary training material.
• Great communicator both in handling difficult situations and a diverse team.
• Highly organized.
• Mature, dependable, and results-oriented.
• Very…