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Fogo de Chão · 3 weeks ago

VP Finance and Real Estate Analytics

Addison, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

Fogo de Chão is seeking a Senior Executive in Finance and Real Estate Analytics to guide strategic real estate development decisions across the United States. This role requires leveraging advanced analytics and financial modeling to optimize market expansion and elevate asset performance, while providing insights that influence the brand's growth strategy.

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No H1B

Responsibilities

In collaboration with the CFO, own the pro-forma process for new restaurant openings, relocations, and remodels, ensuring rigor in assumptions, sensitivity analysis, and ROI modeling

Evaluate capital expenditure requirements and develop asset-level investment strategies that maximize return on invested capital (ROIC)

Partner with Finance, Development, and Operations to refine annual development targets aligned with enterprise goals

Prepare executive-level presentations summarizing financial outcomes, risks, and scenario planning

Lead all analytical efforts related to cannibalization modeling, demand transfer, and revenue forecasting for potential new restaurant sites

Develop and maintain market optimization frameworks to guide long-term growth strategy, including infill development, market densification, and whitespace identification

Build decision models that quantify financial impact on existing units and assess risk-adjusted returns for each new site

Identify underpenetrated and over penetrated markets across the U.S. to inform strategic expansion pacing and capital allocation

Collaborate with Real Estate and Development teams to evaluate trade areas, real-estate quality, and competitive positioning

Oversee the creation and maintenance of market prioritization maps, including portability, site ranking tools, and 3–5 year market roadmaps

Support decisions regarding relocations, remodels, closures, and portfolio optimization

Provide insights into lease negotiations, rent-to-sales benchmarks, and real-estate performance metrics

Provide the Real Estate and Operations Team with insights into over performing and under performing restaurants using all available data sources

Serve as a senior advisor to the CFO, Chief Development Officer, and Executive Team on growth strategy

Lead a high-performing analytics team, promoting excellence in data modeling, geospatial analysis, and financial insight generation

Partner closely with Operations to understand unit-level performance drivers and the operational impact of new openings

Influence organizational decision-making through clear communication of complex financial concepts and correlation insights

Champion best-in-class analytical methods, including geospatial analytics, predictive modeling, machine learning, and advanced BI solutions

Manage relationships with external data partners (Kalibrate, Site Zeus, etc.) to ensure accuracy and strategic value

Develop standardized dashboards and reporting tools to support repeatable, scalable development processes

Qualification

Financial ModelingMarket OptimizationCannibalization ModelingGeospatial AnalyticsPredictive ModelingAdvanced BI SolutionsExcelSQLTableau/Power BIBusiness CommunicationLeadershipStrategic ThinkingProblem SolvingCross-Functional Collaboration