Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Summary of Job Scope and Expectations:

As a key member of the Corporate FP&A Team, the Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst provides analytics, reporting, and insights to support the Finance Team. This position creates dashboards, defines/manages data standards, and monitors performance across the company, overheads, and the industry. The Senior BI Analyst generates forecasts using predictive modeling for various metrics. Using data analytics and working with various functions such as Marketing, Supply Chain, Human Resources and IT, this job provides the analysis and insights that drive key business decisions.

Essential functions:
The essential functions in this job description are not all-inclusive of this job’s duties and responsibilities. Reliable and dependable attendance is required.

• Develops financial models, diagnostic tools, and new analytical methods to identify trends, interpret results, and optimize profit both at the restaurant and corporate level.
• Develops or applies appropriate statistical methods, machine learning models, deep learning models, or other related algorithms as needed to create, maintain, or improve the needed model performance across the portfolio, working directly with the codebase to implement needed extensions, modifications, or updates.
• Analyzes and manages forecast model performance across a large portfolio of restaurant-level sales forecasts; develops and/ or applies statistical methods, machine learning models, deep learning models, or other related algorithms to maintain or improve model performance across the portfolio.
• Responsible for model and code quality and documentation for the models within the product portfolio.
• Works on ad hoc financial analyses with other departments/business partners. Participates in special projects as assigned.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, or related field required
• Minimum five years of Finance experience; minimum of three years of experience in developing production ready machine learning or advanced statistical models
• Experience in a retail/hospitality environment preferred
• Successful completion of annual store training