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Horsham, Pennsylvania, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Provide all levels of corporate and operations management with information and analyses through reporting and financial models to assist the corporation in achieving its strategic objectives. Responsibilities span three retail concepts (Village Inn, Bakers Square and Max & Erma’s Restaurants with $400mm in annual revenues for 220 restaurants).• Direct the design, implementation and rollup process of the Restaurant Operations plan, budget and forecast systems. Develop budget models to generate annual financial plans and periodic re-forecasts for all company operated restaurants.• Senior-level involvement in designing and supporting the top-down driven corporate plan, budget and forecast process including sales, expenses and profitability for restaurant operations, G&A budgets, franchise operations and other areas of corporate planning.• Create financial models to analyze and report on proposed capital expenditures to assist in the development of new sites and support capital initiatives for remodeled restaurants. Produce ROI analysis to support real estate development and other company investments.• Provide business analysis support to CEO, COO, CFO, R&D, Marketing, Procurement and Field Operation departments.• Design, develop, analyze, test and implement incentive/bonus plans for store management, regional managers, regional vice-presidents, concept presidents and corporate bonus eligible managers and executives.• Manage, forecast, track and analyze results of marketing promotions, both national and local, to identify actions most profitable and successful at driving customer counts. Heavy menu mix and menu engineering preparation, analysis, review, and support.• Continuously evaluate current processes and reports for the purpose of maximizing efficiency and effectiveness of department operations. Seek to utilize technology where appropriate to automate recurring report functions and focus on analysis and interpretation of results.

Manager of Financial Analysis (2001-2002)Business Analyst III (June 1997 to 2001)• Operational performance analysis and reporting. Includes Company Management reports, operational trend analysis, weekly scorecards, same store sales reporting and analysis, cost/margin studies, break-even analysis, cause of change variance analysis, profitability bridges and other financial analysis generating summary and exception reports.• Manage team of food cost analysts that maintain all food information (suppliers, items, recipes, units of measure, etc.) administered in the back office that is essential for restaurants to perform systematic functions (physical inventories, order and receive food products and supplies, post waste results and generate several performance and financial reports).• Perform special projects as assigned by senior management.

Golden, Co, Us

Manager Business Analyst (September 1996 – June 1997)Managed staff of three to maintain data configurations for approximately 1200 restaurants in the deployment of an Ideal Food Cost system resulting in a 12% reduction in food cost. Heavy involvement in creating the process to manage the flow of data changes from the inception of an event to the execution at the store level.Business Analyst (October 1994 – September 1996)• Built and maintained all food information (suppliers, items, recipes, units of measure, etc.) administered in the back office master database that is necessary for all franchise partners to perform systematic functions.• Gathered and analyzed information necessary to determine operational impact to the system to support all daily changes and new product promotions in the field. • Managed and trained food cost assistants, help desk personnel, data administrators, field managers and other users of the system.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Managed a large volume of product related requests originating from all levels of management for approximately 2,000 company and franchised operated stores for the largest video retailer in the industry. Staff of two.• Managed process that automated the analysis of used tape purchasing. Purchased and recycled approximately 650,000 previously viewed movies which totaled $5 million in savings over three years.• Coordinated and assisted in the management and development of the department’s plans to identify and evaluate potential opportunities and alternatives for product profitability and efficiency.• Directed and coordinated cover box recycling from the distribution center to fill store needs. Shipped and recycled about 3,000 cover boxes per month.

Cost Accounting, Accounts Payable and Purchasing. Managed staff of three that supported up to 8 subdivisions in home building industry.