Manager, Marketing Finance & Corporate Strategy

Overview

At BJ's Restaurants, we've been bringing people together to celebrate life's moments since 1978. We're more than a restaurant, we're a team of passionate people who take pride in creating great food, memorable experiences, and a workplace where everyone feels valued. If you're energized by collaboration, motivated by solving complex business challenges, and excited to make a meaningful impact, you'll feel right at home here.

At BJ’s Restaurants, strong financial insights help us understand what’s working, where opportunities exist, and how we can continue to grow. We’re looking for a Manager, Marketing Finance & Corporate Strategy who will bring together financial expertise, business curiosity, and strategic thinking to help shape decisions across the organization.

This role goes beyond traditional FP&A. You’ll dig into the business to understand the drivers behind performance, from menu mix, pricing, and product costs to marketing initiatives, testing, loyalty, and the guest experience. Working cross-functionally with Marketing, Culinary, Supply Chain, Operations, Off-Premise, and other partners, you’ll turn complex financial and operational data into insights that help teams make smarter decisions.

You’ll also play an important role in evaluating new ideas and growth opportunities, building the financial case, helping establish success measures, analyzing results, and translating what we learn into clear recommendations for the business.

If you enjoy connecting the dots between financial performance, consumer behavior, and business strategy, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at BJ’s.

• Support forecasting and performance insights while leading high-impact analytical initiatives tied to revenue, margin, and product performance.
• Analyze financial performance against forecasts and deliver clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
• Own recurring performance analytics, including menu mix, check composition, KPI dashboards, and variance analyses that help identify trends and opportunities.
• Partner with business and operational leaders to understand performance drivers and identify opportunities to optimize revenue, costs, and margins.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear recommendations and executive-ready materials.
• Continuously enhance financial models, analytical tools, systems, and reporting automation to improve scalability and decision support.

• Lead menu mix and check composition analysis to understand changes in guest behavior, product performance, and sales trends.
• Partner on menu pricing, product costing, menu testing, and innovation by developing upfront financial models and evaluating post-test performance.
• Provide financial analysis and insights to support marketing, promotional, loyalty, and sales-driving initiatives.
• Build business cases and ROI analyses for new initiatives, helping partners understand potential financial impact, risks, and opportunities.
• Help design and evaluate business tests by establishing success metrics, sizing potential financial impact, and analyzing results to inform next steps.
• Evaluate vendor, product, and operational initiatives by connecting business outcomes to their financial impact.
• Collaborate closely with Marketing, Culinary, Supply Chain, Operations, Off-Premise/Loyalty, and other cross-functional partners to turn data into decision-ready insights.
• Assess industry trends, competitive dynamics, and internal performance to help identify opportunities and inform longer-term business strategy.
• Develop executive and Board-ready materials that clearly…