Business Analyst

BUSINESS ANALYST 
 Making great food that people connect over. That's our thing. We know we're not flying rocket ships to the moon or signing treaties, but we take our job seriously. We live by a set of core values that pretty much sum up everything about us. We have FUN and we LOVE what we do Our goal is to be the best pizza company in the WORLD by KILLING IT on every DETAIL of the Customer experience.

The ideal candidate will have a solid background in driving results through others, business acumen, and building partnerships. Business is booming and as we continue to grow, you would be responsible for maintaining brand standards, driving new store growth, and preparing franchisees for growth. 

You are passionate about business analytic plans, improving current reporting processes, and making proposals of profitable business decisions that are based on data, analytics, and insights. This position supports the stakeholders with analytics and financial statistics, provides input on the design, coordinates efforts across business lines gathering the data for validation and calculation. The Business Analyst has a key role in better data-based decision-making and driving improvements in analytics capabilities across the company.

The Business Analyst is a full-time position and will report to the CFO. This is a hybrid position based out of Whitewater, Wisconsin, working 2-3 days in the office and 2-3 days at home every week.

You will be responsible for supporting Toppers Pizza in the following ways: Collaborate with business staff to thoroughly understand the needs to be supported by information systems and technology. Determine how changes to the project will affect the business and systems. Provide recommendations regarding the evolution of the system. Respond to inquiries and provide advice to the client regarding current and potential system inputs, processes, and outputs. Negotiate plans and timeframes, ensuring that clients understand the anticipated result. Develop and communicate detailed specifications for implementation. Produce reports, timelines, and graphics to communicate expectations and progress to management, customers, investors, and other relevant parties. Maintain and ensure proper documentation and coordinates or perform testing of system modifications. Research and analyze the nature, effect, and results of system difficulties. Satisfy data sampling, project analysis, testing verification, and other user requests from existing client databases. Maintain current understanding of industry standards, trends, and best practices through industry and other professional networks. Understand data requirements and availability, how it impacts and limits possibilities in analytics. Act as the coordinator and key contact point between business stakeholders and specialized advanced analytics teams, ensuring that business needs are collected, defined, and prioritized, and that provided analyses fulfill the business needs. Serve as a key financial planning contact for divisional vice presidents and corporate cost center owners, developing monthly profit & loss forecasts and annual budgets. Review, understand, and incorporate local business impacts and communicate the consolidated business story to senior leadership. Identify and maintain forecast processes and models for a rapidly changing business; understands business challenges, proposes and supports solutions. Partner directly with divisional and corporate leadership to translate financial information to non-financial users and support strategic recommendations. Review financial results, research variances to forecast and budget, identify exceptions, inconsistencies and actionable opportunities for improvement. Coordinate and complete monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting to support leadership. Evaluate financial projections to forecast short and long-term operational liquidity needs, making short-term investment decisions and recommending debt issuance, repayment, and restructuring decisions to senior leadership. Complete ad hoc data analysis, projects, and financial models as needed by the business. Assist leadership with rollouts of large-scale projects, including the annual budget and target-setting processes. Identify, develop, and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization. Analyze working procedures to identify and implement best practices. Collaborate with team members and communicates relevant information to direct leader. Uphold the security and confidentiality of documents and data within area of responsibility. Any other duties as needed Additional Requirements: Ability to lift heavy items, sometimes in excess of 15 lbs. Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must like Pizza, Have Fun at Work, and Be Passionate Minimum Qualifications Must be legally eligible to work in the United States. Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting/Finance, or similar field. At least 5 -7 years of Business experience, preferably within Finance, Controlling, or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A). ECBA Certified If this describes you, we would love to meet you
We love passionate candidates and believe that our only opportunity to win in the marketplace will come by hiring and keeping the best people in the industry. If that's also your view, please give us a look, and make your day great

We offer an excellent team environment as well as provide excellent benefits such as: Flexible Schedule FUN Atmosphere & Casual Work Setting Competitive Salary 4 weeks of PTO the first year Holiday Pay Up to 90% Company Paid Medical Insurance 401(K) Plan with up to a 4% Match Meal Discounts (70% While Working) 100% Company Paid Life Insurance 100% Company Paid Short-term Disability and Long-term Disability Insurance Fitness Club Reimbursement Paid Training & Professional Development Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent Care & Health) Health Savings Account Voluntary Life Insurance Voluntary Group Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance Voluntary Group Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident Insurance Voluntary Group Pet Insurance Our Company Profile (if you're interested and hopefully you are)
Toppers Pizza is a growing pizza delivery franchise company based in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Toppers has won numerous accolades and recognition in the restaurant and franchising industry. We have an incredible leadership team of restaurant veterans.

We are not your mom and dad's pizza company. We pride ourselves on being just a little bit different and a lot more Fun Our company is a family of fanatical, passionate people working toward the common goal of becoming the greatest pizza delivery company on the planet. Some words commonly used to describe us: Edgy, Sarcastic, Irreverent, Fun. . . Check us out at www.toppers.com.

If you like working in a stuffy, no-fun environment, we would not be your dream employer. We try to spoil our Team Members with things like; various company events, performance-based incentives, taste-testing potential new menu items, and other silliness. We make it a point to laugh and smile every day

Equal Employment Opportunity - Toppers Pizza is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Toppers recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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