Bloomin’ Brands is seeking a highly motivated Senior Financial Analyst to join the dynamic Corporate Finance team. This position will offer exposure to upper management and the executive leadership team. Successful candidates have a bias towards action, partnership and communications. In addition, this role requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive business partnerships.
This role is based in our Tampa Restaurant Support Center and will work a hybrid (mix of onsite and remote) schedule weekly, so candidates must be local to the Tampa Bay area.
- Perform monthly financial and business analysis of consolidated results vs. forecasted expectations utilizing the general ledger, subsystems, financial statements and collaboration with restaurant brands and cross-functional teams
- Accurately report consolidated monthly and quarterly board level reporting including variance analysis and commentary; articulate the information into presentation format that is presented to the leadership team
- Prepare schedules and perform analysis to support external financial reporting, treasury, and investor relations teams
- Liaise with business leads to gather information, and provide reporting and information as needed in order to facilitate informed financial decisions to achieve financial targets
- Report weekly sales and industry data to Senior Management including insight into trends and performance versus forecasts
- Assist in the development and modeling of the consolidated strategic long-range plan including balance sheet & cash flow modeling, and scenario planning/management
- Maintain consolidated finance reporting system- record, validate, and reconcile finance “street” and internal system adjustments for SEC and Senior Management reporting
- Participate in meetings with Senior Management on trends and financial data
- Develop and analyze annual plan and ongoing financial forecast for non-core entities
- Maintain various industry benchmarking metrics and analysis
- Perform ad-hoc analysis and other job-related duties as assigned
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting, required
- MBA or Master’s in Accounting preferred
- CPA, preferred
Experience/Skills:
- 4+ years of financial analysis, public accounting and/or financial reporting or corporate accounting experience with a general understanding of GAAP
- Consolidated financial statement analysis and/or preparation experience preferred
- Retail industry experience, preferred
- Must be innovative, independent and responsive to changing business needs
- Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt to different audiences
- Commitment to continuous process improvement
- Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to work and influence teams
- Self-motivation and “whatever it takes” attitude
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, required