Financial Analyst

Job Summary

Financial Analyst will play a key role in shaping growth and capital investment decisions across the restaurant portfolio. Partnering closely with Development, Operations, and Finance leadership, this role will evaluate where and how the business invests - from new restaurants and market expansion to remodels, relocations, acquisitions, and portfolio optimization.

This is a highly analytical and collaborative role for someone who enjoys connecting financial performance, operational data, and investment strategy. The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, comfortable working with large and complex data sets, and able to turn analysis into clear recommendations that influence business decisions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Build financial models and business cases for new restaurants, acquisitions, divestitures, relocations, remodels, market expansion, and other capital investments.

• Evaluate investment opportunities using ROI, NPV, IRR, payback, sensitivity analysis, and scenario modeling to help leadership prioritize capital and growth opportunities.

• Analyze restaurant performance across regions, markets, trade areas, restaurant formats, building types, investment levels, and other attributes to identify the characteristics and trends associated with stronger financial returns.

• Turn historical performance into benchmarks and forward-looking insights that strengthen assumptions, challenge conventional thinking, and improve future investment decisions.

• Evaluate market and portfolio performance to identify growth opportunities, underpenetrated markets, portfolio risks, and opportunities to improve returns across the restaurant base.

• Measure the performance of new restaurants, remodels, relocations, and other investments against original expectations, identifying key drivers of over- and under-performance and incorporating those learnings into future business cases.

• Support M&A and portfolio optimization initiatives through due diligence, valuation, scenario modeling, and performance analysis.

• Develop dashboards, scorecards, and analytical tools that give leadership greater visibility into restaurant performance, investment returns, and strategic initiatives.

• Support the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, and related financial analysis.

• Partner across Development, Operations, Accounting, and Strategy to frame business questions, synthesize findings, and deliver clear, actionable recommendations to leadership.

Education, Experience & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or related field.

• 3-5+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate development, business analytics, or multi-unit retail/QSR environments.

• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, problem-solving, and analytical capabilities.

• Ability to translate complex financial and operational data into clear business insights and recommendations.

• Experience with business intelligence and data visualization tools preferred (Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, etc.)

Preferred Competencies

• Investment modeling & ROI analytics

• Capital allocation

• Market & portfolio analysis

• Restaurant/Multi-Unit performance

• Forecasting & planning

• Business Intelligence & Data Analytics

• Financial storytelling

• Executive communication

Functional Skills

• Analytical Skills: effectively uses data to generate insights for operations excellence

• Planning & Prioritization: highest impact, highest value

• Financial & Business Acumen

• Communicates Effectively and Candidly

• Problem Solving; ability to use rigorous logic to solve problems with innovative effective solutions

• Process Improvement: Strive to continually improve

• Ability to build and leverage talent

• Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment and to adapt to new situations as they arise

• Ability to effectively communicate, inform, and influence senior leaders

• Ability to work cross-functionality on multiple initiatives with a successful record of advancing projects

Our Values

• EVERYONE BELONGS - We believe connectedness and belonging are the essential ingredients to our success

• DO THE RIGHT THING - We are relentlessly focused on quality and integrity and make the right choices, even when it's difficult

• PEOPLE FIRST - To craft positive experiences for our customers, we take care of each other first

• INNOVATE TO WIN - We champion and challenge for a better way in all we do

• HAVE FUN - We find joy, create meaningful impact and celebrate the journey together

Our Core Competencies

• CUSTOMER CENTRIC - We leverage data and insights to craft a customer experience that builds relationships, cultivates trust, and delivers excellence

• RESULTS DRIVEN - We focus on measurable outcomes by remaining optimistic, tenacious, and persistent even in the face of challenges

• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT - We champion for better through strategic risk taking, experimentation and challenging the status quo

• BIAS FOR ACTION - We courageously lead, drive towards decisions, and maintain agility to meet the demands of our dynamic industry

• WINNING TOGETHER - We work together to unlock our full potential by actively collaborating and contributing in a cross-functional capacity

Papa Johns is an equal opportunity employer.

Papa Johns is a federal contractor that participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility for each new team member. We also comply with all Right to Work requirements. Official E-Verify and Right to Work notices are available for applicants to review in both English and Spanish.

It is the policy of Papa John's to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status or civil partnership, national or ethnic origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, uniformed service (as defined by 10 U.S.C. §101 (a)(5)), protected disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, or gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by statute or law.