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Business Analyst
Culinary Collective is building a modern hospitality platform operating across restaurants, bars, live events, catering, festivals and large-scale destination venues.
The group operates concepts and venues including Pyro, Heard, Oudh 1722, Spring Street Pizza, Flat Iron Square and Rae’s, alongside a global white-label F&B, catering and events division delivering premium hospitality experiences across major events, brands and venues.
We are looking for a highly analytical and commercially minded Business Analyst to work closely with senior leadership across the group. The role combines financial analysis, operational insight, strategic reporting and AI-enabled productivity.
This person will help drive better decision-making across the business by analysing performance, identifying trends, building reporting and presentations, and leveraging tools such as Claude and other AI platforms to improve speed, quality and operational leverage across the company.
Responsibilities
Build Best-in-Class Reporting & Commercial Visibility
- Develop weekly and monthly reporting across all brands, venues and business units
- Create clear dashboards covering revenue, labour, GP, covers, sales mix, booking trends, event performance, operational KPIs
- Improve visibility across restaurants, bars, live events, catering and venue operations
- Help leadership teams move from reactive reporting to proactive decision-making
Become the Internal AI & Productivity Lead
- Become an expert operator across AI tools including Claude, ChatGPT and emerging productivity platforms
- Build AI-supported workflows for reporting, analysis, forecasting, presentation building, operational planning, meeting summaries, tender support
- Improve the speed, quality and consistency of outputs across the company
- Help operational teams adopt AI tools more effectively in their day-to-day workflows
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Drive Commercial & Operational Insight
- Analyse restaurant, bar, events and catering P&Ls to identify opportunities and risks
- Identify trends across labour efficiency, margin performance, menu mix, booking behaviour, pricing, daypart performance, event profitability, customer demand
- Support forecasting, budgeting and operational planning
- Work with finance and operations teams to improve business performance
Support Strategy & Leadership
- Build board-level presentations, operating reviews and strategic reporting
- Support tender submissions, venue pitches and commercial proposals
- Help structure complex information into clear, commercially grounded recommendations
- Support senior leadership on expansion projects, operational reviews and strategic initiatives
Requirements
Experience & Background
- 3–5 years experience in consulting, investment banking, private equity, commercial finance, strategy, analytics, or a high-performance startup environment
- Strong commercial and analytical skillset
- Experience working with financial models, operational reporting and business analysis
- Comfortable analysing P&Ls and large datasets
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Technical Skills
- Advanced Excel / Google Sheets capability
- Strong PowerPoint / Keynote / Google Slides skills
- Highly competent with AI tools and excited by emerging technology
- Comfortable working with operational and financial data from multiple systems
- Ability to structure messy or incomplete data into actionable insight
Mindset & Behaviour
- Highly curious and commercially minded
- Strong attention to detail
- Fast-moving and proactive
- Comfortable operating in a high-growth environment
- Able to work independently and solve problems quickly
- Interested in hospitality, consumer brands, live experiences and operational excellence
- Excited by the opportunity to help build a modern hospitality platform using technology and AI as a competitive advantage
About Culinary Collective
Culinary Collective is building a modern hospitality platform operating across restaurants, bars, live events, catering, festivals and large-scale destination venues.
The group operates concepts and venues including Pyro, Heard, Oudh 1722, Spring Street Pizza, Flat Iron Square and Rae’s, alongside a global white-label F&B, catering and events division delivering premium hospitality experiences across major events, brands and venues.
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