Sr. Labor and Financial Analyst

GENERAL POSITION

PURPOSE:

The Senior Financial Analyst
- Labor is responsible for leading financial, labor, compensation, payroll, and workforce analytics that support strategic business decisions across the Round Room corporate structure. This role owns and improves executive-level labor reporting, payroll analytics, labor forecasting models, workforce planning tools, compensation reporting, and related financial analyses designed to identify trends, improve operational efficiency, strengthen controls, and enhance profitability. The Senior Financial Analyst
- Labor serves as a trusted analytical partner to Finance, Payroll, Human Resources, Operations, and Sales Leadership by transforming complex labor and payroll data into clear, actionable insights. This individual must demonstrate proven experience creating labor reporting and analytics, mastery-level Microsoft Excel capability, strong financial acumen, and the ability to communicate complex analysis in a concise, practical, and executive-ready manner. This role serves as the primary owner of recurring labor forecasting, labor reconciliations, bonus accruals, labor-related close activities, executive labor reporting, and workforce analytics supporting both financial reporting and operational decision making.

This senior-level role requires a highly motivated critical thinker who can work independently, manage multiple priorities, challenge assumptions through data, identify root causes, and proactively recommend improvements to reporting, forecasting, labor controls, compensation analytics, and decision-support processes.

• Own, create, improve, and maintain the monthly Labor Reporting Package for the Executive Team, including turnover reporting, labor forecasts, sales bonus trackers, staffing reports, payroll cost analysis, productivity metrics, and related workforce analytics.
• Develop executive-level labor one-page summaries, dashboards, scorecards, and recurring reporting packages that clearly communicate labor performance, trends, risks, financial impact, and recommended actions.
• Lead labor forecasting, workforce planning, labor target development and scenario modeling to support budgeting, staffing decisions, sales compensation reviews, payroll planning, and labor productivity improvement.
• Prepare weekly labor forecasts and labor analyses used in flash reporting and executive financial outlook reviews.
• Monitor key labor drivers and identify emerging risks and opportunities impacting financial performance.
• Perform monthly labor forecast-to-actual reconciliations and labor variance analysis to ensure labor expense is accurately reflected in financial results.
• Investigate significant variances and work cross-functionally to resolve discrepancies and improve forecast accuracy.
• Prepare and support monthly bonus accrual calculations, journal entries, supporting schedules, and close documentation in partnership with Accounting and FP&A to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Consolidate, audit, and validate manual bonus programs in preparation for biweekly payroll, with a strong focus on controls, exception identification, documentation, and data accuracy.
• Perform monthly labor expense reconciliations, including Store Support labor expense analysis, by-person labor reviews, and supporting commentary for management and executive reporting packages.
• Prepare recurring financial and workforce performance metrics, including earnings per share (EPS) updates and other executive reporting measures as assigned.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities through labor reporting, accruals, reconciliations, variance analysis, supporting schedules, management reporting, and financial review deliverables.
• Analyze labor trends, payroll costs, sales bonus results, staffing effectiveness, turnover, productivity, and compensation program performance to identify actionable business insights and improvement opportunities.
• Frame, investigate, and answer key business questions related to labor, payroll, sales incentives, compensation programs, and workforce deployment, then present leadership with clear execution paths and recommendations.
• Partner closely with Finance, Payroll, Human Resources, Operations, Reporting, and Sales Leadership to understand business drivers, reporting gaps, labor economics, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Prepare and present labor analytics, payroll insights, financial outlooks, variance explanations, and recommendations to senior leaders in a clear, concise, and business-oriented manner.
• Translate complex payroll, labor, workforce, and compensation data into practical insights, executive summaries, and decision-support materials.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring analysis, reduce manual work, improve reporting efficiency, and strengthen data integrity using Excel, Power Query, Power BI, and other available tools.
• Build and maintain scalable analytical models with clear assumptions, audit checks,…