Financial Analyst, F&B

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The Financial Analyst, Food & Beverage, is responsible for supporting the financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and operational analysis of Food & Beverage operations across OC Sports & Entertainment's portfolio of venues, hospitality spaces, restaurants, and special events. This role serves as a key business partner to Food & Beverage operators, venue leadership, and the F&B Accounting team to provide financial insights that drive revenue growth, operational efficiency, and profitability.

The analyst will play a significant role in the annual budget process, rolling forecasts, monthly reporting, event profitability analysis, labor productivity evaluation, and strategic decision support. This position requires a highly analytical individual who can connect financial performance to operational drivers and translate complex data into actionable business recommendations. As the organization continues to grow, the analyst will support both existing operations and future venues, hospitality concepts, and restaurants as they come online.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and enhance financial planning models to support annual budget, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and strategic initiatives for F&B operations
• Analyze monthly operating results against budget and forecast, identify key drivers, research variances, and communicate findings to finance and operational leadership
• Serve as the primary finance partner to assigned Food & Beverage operators, providing insights and recommendations to improve revenue, profitability, labor efficiency, and operational performance
• Develop event-level and business-line profitability analyses across concessions, premium hospitality, suites, catering, clubs, restaurants, and special events
• Partner closely with Food & Beverage operators, venue leadership, and accounting teams to align financial plans with operational objectives
• Assist in storytelling by preparing presentations and dashboards in support of executive meetings, quarter business reviews and various strategic and analytics projects
• Support the development and automation of reporting, dashboards, and KPI tracking through Power BI and AI tools
• Engage in ad-hoc analysis to support business decision making and strategic planning
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Required Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Required Experience: 3+ years of finance or accounting
• Preferred Experience: Experience supporting food & beverage, hospitality, restaurant, entertainment, sports, or venue operations strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting and analytical skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP functions. Experience with Power BI and AI tools strongly preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), Tapin2, POS systems, and hospitality reporting platforms preferred
• Understanding of key Food & Beverage performance metrics, including labor productivity, contribution margin, average basket size, guest spending behavior, and operational profitability
• Able to manipulate large quantities of data in order to build financial models and reporting packages
• A proven record of discretely handling sensitive proprietary information
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and balance multiple priorities and assignments, able to learn on own and work independently towards a deadline. 
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Customer-service mindset with the ability to build collaborative relationships across Finance, Accounting, and Operations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Education - Bachelor's Degree

Experience Required – 3+ Years

This position is on-site.

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We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.  We are firm believers that diversity and inclusion among our team members are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

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