Trainee Financial Analyst Rotational Program Jobs in California

We are hiring immediately for a Financial Analyst.

• Location: Mountain View, CA
• Schedule: Monday - Friday 
• Pay Range: $110,000 - $130,000 / year

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Are you looking for a job with competitive wages and benefits, one in which you can learn and grow while making a difference in the world? We’re hiring! Bon Appétit Management Company operates more than 1,000 cafés around the country for corporations, universities, and museums, as well as a few dozen public restaurants. We’ve led the industry in socially and environmentally responsible sourcing, from sustainable seafood to cage-free eggs. We cook everything from scratch using fresh, local ingredients.

Learn more about careers with Bon Appétit: http://www.bamco.com/careers/

Background to Role

The Finance Team exists to support the Food program regionally and to champion best financial practices as it relates to analysis, budget, forecasting and spend for all aspects of the Food Program. The Finance Team consists of three main work streams: Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Data Analytics.

Role Summary

To support our growth we’re looking for a Financial Analyst to join our team!

The Financial Analyst will mainly support the Financial Planning & Analysis and Data Analytics work streams within the Finance Team. 

You will partner with Bon Appetit’s and Compass’ Site Leadership as well as Client Service Managers to focus on financial modeling and analysis to outline growth and determine financial opportunities and efficiencies that benefit the food programs overall. You will also support the development and maintenance of the data infrastructure platform and promote effective data validation, data cleansing and data storage practices to enable accurate reporting and provide data for ad hoc analysis projects. 

This position reports into the Regional Controller, and will leverage their strong financial, business and analytical skills to partner with key stakeholders (culinary, operations, hospitality, concept development, procurement, risk management, and HR), to promote financial best practices in line with Bon Appetit’s standards and Food program expectations while maintaining enhanced user experience. This position is on-site.

The great things you’ll do

• Financial modeling projects to add depth of understanding and accuracy to financial discussions and inform decision-making

• Maintain and reinforce all financial policies and standards consistently across the account

• Communicate any financial issues/concerns to the regional team

• Oversee preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual financial summary reports to unit management and leadership groups

• Participate in meetings with site and client leadership teams

• Create/maintain financial tools for all levels of managers, chefs, leadership and client teams

• Track weekly, monthly and quarterly financial KPI’s for site leadership and client partners

• Maintain, on a weekly basis, the client consolidated financial roll up

• Provide ongoing budget support (training, development, questions) for managers and chefs and budget development and review by location with leadership

• Assist with financial modeling for proformas for new cafes/programs, new food initiatives and Support Team projects to help determine operating expenses and provide guidance

• Present information for quarterly business discussions (aka quarter reports) and annual strategic review projects as needed

• Develop data validation processes to ensure that the data is clean and accurate

• Maintain and develop data infrastructure

• Support ad hoc data analysis projects

What we look for in the great candidate

• 4 year college degree in Business/Accounting and/or 5 years of experience working in an Analyst capacity

• Previous high volume retail or foodservice analyst support  

• Strong partnership skills

• Ability to influence in a matrixed organization

• Able to dynamically and creatively problem solve 

• Adept at managing multiple client and internal requests and deadlines

• Able to shift priorities for self and team on short notice

• Proficient in Microsoft Office products including Excel, Word and Outlook

• Proficient in Google Suite tools including Sheets, Docs, Slides and GMail

• Basic proficiency in using SQL to interact with databases

• Experience in dashboard design and using data visualization tools such as Google Data Studio / Tableau / Looker etc.