Senior Manager, Operations Finance and Analytics

At Fogo de Chão, we strive to give our guests an unforgettable dining experience of discovery while showcasing the Culinary Art of Churrasco. Our mission is to ignite fire and joy to care for our team, our guests, and our communities. We believe better futures start when we bring our best to the table every day to Feed a Purposeful Future – starting with our team members. We feed our teams with fulfilling job opportunities, making space around the table so everyone feels welcome. At Fogo, we’ll provide you with a fulfilling career with professional and personal growth opportunities at every level. Our values of teamwork, integrity, excellence, humility and Deixa Comigo (we’ve got you!) are more than just words, it’s how we do things every day.

We are seeking a highly analytical Senior Manager of Finance to serve as a key thought partner to senior leadership across Finance, Operations, and Marketing. This role is deeply focused on understanding and explaining the core drivers of restaurant performance, such as sales, traffic, check growth, promotions, menu mix, and pricing, and translating those insights into clear, actionable recommendations.

This role goes beyond traditional FP&A. Success is defined by the ability to connect operating behavior and guest trends to financial outcomes, identify what is truly driving results, and influence decisions that improve topline growth and margin performance across a multi-unit restaurant system.

The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, data-driven, and obsessed with performance trends, particularly sales, traffic, check and guest behavior. This role must elevate complex analysis into clear executive narratives.

Key Responsibilities

Business Performance & Driver Analytics

• Own analysis of sales, traffic, check growth, and mix trends, identifying key drivers and emerging patterns across the system
• Analyze the impact of discounts, promotions, pricing actions, and menu mix on traffic, average check, margins, and profitability
• Partner with Marketing and Operations to evaluate promotional effectiveness, value strategies, and guest response
• Conduct pre- and post-analysis on menu changes, promotional campaigns, pricing tests, and operational initiatives

Forecasting & Strategic Support

• Support the development of the sales forecast by grounding projections in observed trends across traffic, check growth, promotions, and mix
• Translate trends in traffic, pricing, mix, and promotions into forward-looking revenue and margin implications
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations and Marketing to assess scenarios, risks, and tradeoffs tied to growth initiatives
• Help leadership understand what must happen operationally to deliver financial expectations

Data-Driven Performance Analytics

• Translate large, complex datasets into concise insights that explain what changed, why it changed, and what actions matter most
• Develop and maintain reporting that integrates financial and operational KPIs in a way that is intuitive for operators and executives
• Analyze performance across restaurant cohorts, regions, formats, channels, and dayparts to identify opportunities and best practices
• Support monthly business reviews with clear, actionable analysis that drives accountability and decisions

BI Tools, Reporting & Data Enablement

• Serve as a power user and thought leader for business intelligence tools, with Power BI as the primary platform
• Design, build, and evolve dashboards that provide timely visibility into sales, traffic, promotions, and margin drivers
• Partner with Data and IT teams to improve data quality, governance, and analytical reliability

Executive & Board-Level Support

• Produce executive-ready PowerPoint materials that clearly connect operating performance to financial outcomes
• Shape the narrative for senior leadership by distilling complex analysis into focused, decision-oriented takeaways
• Ensure insights are internally consistent, data-validated, and aligned across Finance, Operations, and Marketing

Key Attributes for Success

• Highly analytical, curious, and comfortable working with imperfect or noisy data
• Strong ability to synthesize details into executive-level insights
• Operator-minded, practical, and action-oriented
• Trusted advisor who can challenge assumptions constructively

Experience Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance experience; multi-unit restaurant or consumer business experience strongly preferred
• Strong background in business intelligence, analytics, and performance reporting
• Advanced experience with Power BI (or similar BI tools such as Tableau or Looker)
• Proven ability to translate complex datasets into executive-ready insights
• Experience supporting executive-level reviews and presentations
• BA/BS Required, MBA a plus

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance are available for full-time Team Members on the first of the month following their start date. Additionally, company-paid Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability are provided where allowed. We offer a comprehensive voluntary benefits package including Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Coverage.

Fogo de Chão is an Equal Opportunity & E Verify Employer