Full-Time

Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

Posted on 9/15/2025

Coates Group

Coates Group

201-500 employees

End-to-end digital signage for QSRs

Compensation Overview

$118k - $135k/yr

Chicago, IL, USA

Hybrid

Category
Finance & Banking (1)
Required Skills
Financial analysis
Data Analysis
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Financial Modeling
Requirements
  • 3–5+ years of experience in financial analysis, business planning, or commercial finance.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
  • Proven experience in fast-paced, complex organizations.
  • Advanced Excel skills (e.g., VLOOKUP, SUMIF, Pivot Tables, INDIRECT).
  • Strong financial modeling and data analysis capabilities.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with regional leadership to deliver accurate forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis to support strategic decision-making.
  • Analyze business performance, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to improve financial outcomes.
  • Maintain and optimize financial models, ensuring accuracy of revenue, costs, expenses, KPIs, and workforce data.
  • Prepare executive-level presentations for leadership reviews and strategic planning sessions.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to understand budget variances and continuously enhance financial processes and models.
  • Support S&OP integration and inventory management forecasting improvements.
  • Lead risk and opportunity assessments to drive short-term profitability.
  • Manage commercial terms data to maximize contribution margin while balancing operational efficiency.
  • Represent North America in global business intelligence (BI) and process improvement initiatives.
  • Support planning cycles, including annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and 3-year strategic plans.
  • Champion continuous improvement in reporting, modeling, and financial accuracy.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with ERP systems and BI tools (preferred)

Coates Group provides digital signage and customer experience solutions for Quick Service Restaurants. It offers digital menu boards, self-service kiosks, and content management systems, along with hardware, software, installation, and ongoing support. The system combines displays and interactive kiosks with a central content platform to create, schedule, and push menus and messages across multiple locations, while technicians install and maintain the setup. Its goal is to help QSR brands improve the customer experience and drive sales by offering end-to-end, location-wide digital signage management for large chains and independents.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Newtown Township, Pennsylvania

Founded

2003

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • signageOS partnership powers Switchboard on Samsung screens for scalability.
  • Elo Touch deploys tens of thousands of kiosks enhancing QSR journeys.
  • Traditional signage like pylons maximizes QSR brand ROI worldwide.

What critics are saying

  • McDonald's in-house tech eliminates 25-40% revenue in 12-24 months.
  • Samsung/LG direct sales undercut margins in 6-18 months.
  • Toast/Shopify POS integration obsoletes Switchboard in 12-24 months.

What makes Coates Group unique

  • Switchboard CMS integrates POS systems with license plate recognition for drive-thru targeting.
  • VR showroom in Chicago enables QSR clients to test digital signage pre-build.
  • Global McDonald's provider since 1970s for menu boards and kiosks.

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Flexible Work Hours

Paid Sick Leave

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