Chief Financial Officer

At Caribou Coffee we create day-making experiences that spark a chain reaction of GOOD! This is our purpose. Our team brings this to life by focusing on what's really important around here - TEAM, GUEST, BUSINESS! It's that simple. If you're ready to work somewhere you can be yourself while making an impact on your community, creating life-long relationships, and serving the best coffee around, join our herd! Apply today and be part of the 'Bou Crew!

Position Mission:

Reporting to the CEO, the CFO will be the top finance and strategic business development role for Bagel Brands. Bagel Brands is a multi-branded and multi-channel business that includes Einstein Bros. Bagels, Bruegger's Bagels, Noah's New York Bagels, and Manhattan Bagel Company spanning multiple channels including retail operations, franchising, licensing, and wholesale/consumer packaged goods, including manufacturing. Bagel Brands

Along with being the company's primary source of financial leadership, the CFO will be responsible for the strategic growth and development of the company. He/she will be in charge of managing accounting, financial analysis, reporting, tax, and treasury, and providing accuracy, timeliness, and transparency.

This individual leads a team of accounting and finance professionals bringing relevant and insightful analysis along with recommendations to the Executive Leadership Team to ensure high quality data and information is used in decision making to drive value creation at acceptable levels of risk.

Responsibilities Include, but are not limited to:

• Partner with CEO and Executive Leadership Team to:
  • Develop and execute long range strategic plans,
  • Establish revenue, profit and investment return goals and monitor performance against those goals,
  • Provider of transparency into cause of performance, visibility into business's financial trajectory, and initiative to improve performance across the business,
  • Provide continuous review of cost structure, cash position, and covenants, and
  • Steward capital allocation process.
• Sponsor of strategic development opportunities, and
• Financial representative of the Bagel Brands to its Board of Directors, Investors, and Lenders
• Lead the Bagel Brands in
  • Financial planning and performance management relative to plans,
  • Accounting for the business in a timely, accurate and transparent manner,
  • Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting to all stakeholders in the Company including the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, Functional Departments, Board of Directors, and Investors, and
  • Management of investors and other financial constituents on all matters related to finance, accounting, audits, valuations, credit arrangements including the preparation of materials for monthly/quarterly/annual meetings.
    

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Cultural Fit:

• Personal fit with the Company's culture that strives to give our bakery operators world class support so they can deliver a consistently incredible guest experience.
• Aligned with company values:
  • We keep people first,
  • We are friends of change,
  • We choose to trust, and
  • We have a strong bias for action.
• Operates with an ownership mentality with a balanced perspective on risks and returns. Knows how to manager risk to maximize ROI vs trying to eliminate risk. Feels comfortable investing in new ideas.
• Can operate with ambiguity.

Work Style:

• Talent for functioning strategically and tactically in day to day needs of the business,
• Demonstrated experience executing in the details and thinking about the bigger picture,
• Thinking end to end and engaging in processes that motivates those around him or her to participate, and
• Critical thinker looking to drive continuous improvement.
• Able to apply extensive rigor and critical thinking in underlying assumptions made in forecasts, plans, and financial estimates,
• Able to integrate internal and external data/factors in analyses, bringing forth relevant assumptions and trends for consideration,
• Able to simplify the agenda and create clarity from a large number of inputs, and
• Experience with data modeling, analysis, and presentation creation.

Talent Leadership & Communication:

• Capable of leading through influence across, up and down the organization,
• Able to coach & develop finance professionals, inspiring the team's best work and focusing them to support and achieve the company's strategic initiatives,
• Demonstrated history of strong verbal and written communication skills at various levels of an organization and cross functionally, and
• Organized, able to multi-task and operate under fast paced environment with tight timelines.

Education/Training/Experience:

Required:

• Experience in restaurants or relevant/similar retail and hospitality companies. CPG experience is a plus, but not transitioning out of that industry for the first time.
• Experience in companies of similar size and complexity.
• Experience with financing/refinancing
• M&A experience valuable.
• Bachelor's in business, accounting, economics finance or other related field of study,
• 15+ years of progressive, applicable work experience, including full financial statement responsibilities including forecasting, planning and analysis; understanding of all the levers of the business to drive increased profitability and value creation, and
• Prior experience working with and providing information to various oversight committees, including audit committees and boards of directors.

Highly Preferred:

• MBA
• Experience in Restaurant industry

Compensation Range:

*Starting pay is subject to Local and State Minimum Wage regulations.

**Ranges reflect what employer reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for such position.

The physical demands for this position are reaching, lifting up to 50 pounds, sitting, standing, for 4 to 8 hours, bending, and moving intermittently during working hours. These physical demands may be accomplished with or without reasonable accommodations.

The duties of this position may change from time to time. Caribou Coffee reserves the right to add or delete duties and responsibilities at the discretion of the company or its managers. This job description is intended to describe the general level of work being performed. It is not intended to be all-inclusive.

Caribou Coffee Operating Company, Inc. and its affiliates are proud to be Equal Opportunity Employers to all applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type based on any characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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