Associate Director, FP&A

About Us

Imagine: 30 unique restaurants to order from, brought to your door in under 30 minutes. That’s what our customers experience.

At Wonder, we want to make world-class food within reach, no matter where you live. That’s why we’ve created a vertically integrated, new standard of dining that will allow you to enjoy menus from award-winning chefs and iconic restaurants across the country, all in one place. Our elevated brick + mortar locations will offer pick up and dine in options, as well as delivery to your home.

As a food-tech startup backed by top-tier venture capitalists and led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs—including some of the most accomplished leaders in the technology, culinary, and logistics industries—we’re growing. Join us in pioneering a new category of dining called “Fast-Fine”, and revolutionizing the way people eat.

About the role

FP&A translates business inputs, strategies and objectives into financial outcomes through scenario modeling and sets key operating targets through annual operating planning processes. We ensure financial transparency to the business through accurate and timely reporting and re-forecasting, and that’s why we need you! 

As Associate Director, FP&A, you will own our growing number of restaurant P&Ls and be a key business partner to the operations team. You will also provide instrumental forecasts, data and understanding to feed our long-term investor model(s), rolling short-term cash flow forecast, annual budgeting process and management reporting to senior leadership. You will work closely with the accounting team during month-end close to understand and translate our financials into KPIs and department level reporting packages to help unpack various metrics driving our business forward.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own restaurant P&Ls and work directly with the operations team to drive profitability
• Partner with senior leadership to develop labor, opex and capex budgets while simultaneously driving towards financial targets aligned with company strategic initiatives
• Collaborate with accounting to create monthly department reporting packages and budget to actual variance analyses
• Manage restaurant cash flow forecasts and improve our visibility into key drivers of revenue, margins, cash burn, and other key metrics
• Partner with cross-functional teams to conduct analyses and help drive critical business decisions (e.g., IRR and payback of new restaurant launches, potential partnerships and acquisitions, pricing, staffing models etc.)
• Support long-term strategic financial modelling in support of bi-annual board meetings and fundraising
• Work with financial systems team to automate reports and create looker dashboards

The experience you have

• Extensive experience in an analytical role, preferably with experience in investment banking, FP&A, or another finance-related field
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, including a high level of attention to detail
• Proficiency in excel and demonstrated technical skills in building financial models
• Ability to effectively distill complex information into concise narratives and communicate directly with senior executives

The way you work

• Curious to figure out the best outcome
• No big egos and empathetic
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Able to independently work cross-functionally to figure out the best way to drive the business forward

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.  

Base Salary: $183,750

A final note 

At Wonder, we believe that in order to build the best team, we must hire using an objective lens.  We are committed to fair hiring practices where we hire people for their potential and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.  As such, we do not discriminate or make decisions based on your 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.  If you have a disability, please let your recruiter know how we can make your interview process work best for you.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.