Financial Analyst - Commercial Sales

Compensation Range

Overview

• Exhaustively Meticulous: You appreciate attention to detail, leaving nothing to chance while understanding what deserves your immediate attention and what can wait.
• A Top Notch Analyst: you possess the ability to demonstrate logical thinking in order to gather and analyze a variety of information.
• Driven by Results: you're conscientious and persistent about delivering timely and high-quality deliverables, while never hesitating to ask for more when you're done.
• Adaptable: you’re at ease in a fast-paced environment and you're able to stay nimble and change direction when priorities shift.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, enhance and support development of dashboards and reports to track sales performance and revenue against targets.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual sales reports, and through analysis of monthly revenue, gross profit margin, and sales promotions, investigate root causes of variances between actual results, budgets, and forecasts.
• Monitor and analyze sales data to identify trends, risks and growth opportunities that support strategic decision-making.
• Track and support trade spending, including discounts, price deviation, commissions and other promotional activities to ensure proper accounting entries and comparison against budget/forecasts.
• Assist with sales budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting at customer, product, location, and segment levels.
• Support the preparation of budget and forecasts for distribution, warehousing, and freight-related cost centers.
• Support month-end close processes, including journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations for commissions, demos, rebates and promotional costs.
• Prepare pricing quotations to ensure required variable contribution margins.
• Track quotation success rates and analyze customer/product margin variances between quoted and actual results.
• Comply with GAAP and internal policies in all sales accounting practices.
• Ad-hoc reporting, special projects, and other department support as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of financial planning and analysis experience.
• Strong understanding of financial forecasting, GAAP, gross margin analysis, and variance analysis.
• Proficient in ERP systems and advanced Excel skills.
• Experience analyzing large datasets (trends, variances, performance metrics, etc.)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities with keen attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.

• Manufacturing industry experience preferred.

Benefits

• Vacation and sick time
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• 401K with company match
• 25%-35% discount when dining as a guest
• Discounted cheesecake purchase program
• Annual stipend for dining in our restaurants

About the Company

The Cheesecake Factory Bakery creates over 35,000 delicious cheesecakes per day across our two facilities in Calabasas, CA and Rocky Mountain, NC plus other baked products for our restaurants, international licensees, and third-party bakery customers.

The Cheesecake Factory Bakery is a subsidiary of The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated. Recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® since 2014, The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated is a global $3.8 billion public company with more than 350 casual dining restaurants and over 48,000 staff members.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace for all. We welcome applicants from a wide variety of identities, ideas, perspectives, backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Cheesecake Factory offers reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities.

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