Overview
Associate Director, Finance Jobs in New York City Metropolitan Area at Wonder
Title: Associate Director, Finance
Company: Wonder
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
About Wonder
Everything’s on the menu at Wonder. Except compromise.
Wonder is the mealtime platform built to feed every craving in one order. With Wonder, you can mix and match hundreds of dishes from 20+ exclusive restaurants in a single order, so everyone gets exactly what they’re craving. Enjoy everything from tacos to Thai with $0 delivery fees, plus dine-in or pick up at a Wonder location near you. Each dish is made to order on-site by our culinary team and served hot.
Behind the scenes, Wonder owns and operates every step of the dining experience, from recipe development to the technology that powers our experience, allowing us to deliver quality, variety, and consistency at scale.
Join us as we work to make great food more accessible.
About The Opportunity
You will partner with the EVP of Restaurant Operations to operate the fastest growing portfolio of restaurants across North America. You will leverage your finance and operational experience gain in fast growing multi-unit businesses to drive significant value creation within the Wonder portfolio. You will evaluate revenue opportunities, optimize costs within the 4 walls, and manage the portfolio to optimize value creation, ensuring that every decision aligns to delivering exceptional experiences for the consumers.
The Impact You Will Make
- Strategic Business Partner: Serve as a key financial partner, providing insights and analysis to drive operational efficiency, improve profitability, and support strategic decision-making.
- Operational Finance Expertise: Leverage industry specific knowledge, particularly in the 4-Wall restaurant / QSR industry to drive financial performance and operational efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate across functions to align operational objectives / actions with our financial goals through effective communication.
- Ownership of Restaurant P&Ls: Own the P&L and KPIs with Restaurant Operations, providing insights into business-line profitability, including analysis of COGS, labor, rent, and capital expenditures. Identify trends and opportunities across the portfolio and vs competitors.
- Finance Partnerships: Work closely with Wonder Group FP&A and Controllership to transform our finance operations in service of the business objectives (touch forecasting, budgeting, monthly reporting, LT forums, etc.).
- Automation: You will create the business models that shape our In store automation agenda to unlock capacity and unit economies while disrupting an entire Industry.
What You Bring to the Table
You have a track record of leading successful operational finance teams in high growth and multi-unit QSRs. You have strong analytical and financial modeling skills, the ability to collaborate across functions, and desire to build world class performance management operating system from scratch.
- History of leading improvements in operational processes using financial analytics.
- Deep understanding of restaurant P&L management and the levers to improve profitability.
- Interpersonal skills to work cross-functionally and influence decision making.
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills to translate financial data into actions.
- Advanced excel, SQL, Looker, BigQuery or other data warehouse management skills to build integrated financial models and managerial reporting in a self-serve environment.
The Way You Work
- Proactive Problem-Solver: You are a proactive problem-solver. Your keen eye for detail and curiosity will drive you to optimize operations and drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborator: The only way we win is together. You excel in building strong operational relationships and collaborating across departments to influence decision makers.
- Gritty & Agile: You thrive in dynamic environments, adeptly analyzing complex financial data to uncover insights and opportunities. you are able to pivot without complete Information and are comfortable with uncertainty
- Communicator: Your strong communication skills will allow you to reinforce our strategic and financial priorities across functions. Through your communication you are connecting the dots across Operations, Development, and Leadership.
New York: $174,000 – $194,000
Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.
A Final Note
At Wonder, we build the best teams by hiring with an objective lens — evaluating people for their potential while championing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. As part of our commitment to fair and compliant hiring practices, Wonder participates in the federal government's E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility. If you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.
