New Unit Analyst

Job Summary and Objective

The New Unit Development Analyst will provide analysis and support of company activities in the areas of new unit development, new unit operational financial and non-financial performance, and mergers & acquisitions. In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the broader development, operations, and financial teams to drive profitable new unit growth and improve the organization’s business results. This role will report to the Director of Insight and Analytics, and will be responsible for financial modeling, reporting, and analysis to support leadership planning, execution, and decision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Reporting, Analytics and Project Management (Primary Focus)

• Support the creation and maintenance of standardized KPIs (e.g. membership milestones, cancel rate, product mix levels) and financial measures (e.g., P&L benchmarks, economies of scale, etc.) to evaluate and optimize new unit performance
• Support pre- and post-opening financial modeling, reporting and analysis, including trend analysis and appropriate data visualizations to “tell the story” of new unit performance
• Translate business requirements into clear, actionable, reporting and analytics solutions.
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability across reporting outputs.
• Provide ongoing reporting and analytical support for planning and forecasting cycles.
• Assist Chief Strategy Officer and Director of New Growth Strategies to evaluate potential new sites using real estate analytics tools such as Tango and other analytic software
• Support review and development of presentation material for executive meetings.
• Manage pipeline of new development projects, track progress of project plans, follow-up with team members on status, action items, key milestones, etc.

Business Partnership

• Work closely with Development and Construction stakeholders to understand data and reporting needs, and to identify opportunities for improved processes, insights, and decision-making.
• Support ad hoc analysis on newly opened units to identify root causes of issues, inefficiencies, and opportunities for solutions (including automation) to drive cost savings and/or performance improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Operations, Finance, and Human Resources) to align reporting and metrics.

Technology & AI Enablement (In Partnership with IT)

• Identify and implement AI use cases (e.g., forecasting, segmentation, anomaly detection)
• Collaborate to deploy predictive and prescriptive models
• Evaluate and integrate AI tools to automate reporting and operational workflows
• Develop data pipelines and workflows that support AI-driven decision-making (e.g., Power Automate)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Must possess strong financial analysis, modeling, systems/data, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated experience using Power BI to create dashboards and reports is highly preferred
• Strong skills using Microsoft Office, particularly advanced Excel skills to bring data from multiple sources and automate recurring processes, perform regression analysis and other predictive modeling, create data visualizations, etc. is required
• Strong communication, problem-solving and analytical skills required.
• Ability to work independently, and to adapt to a quickly changing environment.
• Self-motivated with a drive to increase efficiencies and improve processes.
• Comfortable working in a small office environment and collaborating effectively with others.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Rosemont, IL 60018