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# Senior Financial Analyst (Hybrid) at Rewards Network

- **Company:** Rewards Network
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Compensation:** $90k–$115k
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rewardsnetwork/jobs/5227377007

## Job description

## About Rewards Network

Celebrating 41 years in business, Rewards Network has helped restaurants increase their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement through our innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers.  Our offers leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, providing value to our restaurants, diners, and strategic partners' loyalty programs.

Our Culture

At Rewards Network, you will find a passionate and diverse group of professionals that enjoy working collaboratively, solving problems, and taking ownership of not only their own careers and success, but the success and continued growth of the organization. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to bring full price paying customers and better ways to access working capital options to local restaurants. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment where you can maximize your potential.

Job Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team! The team serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, driving financial decision-making, long-term value creation, and operational excellence across the company. We are seeking a highly analytical, commercially minded, and collaborative Senior Financial Analyst to serve as the primary finance business partner for the Marketing and Partnerships teams.

In this highly visible role, you will drive business growth by analyzing consumer marketing offers, incentives, and go-to-market strategies and providing data-driven recommendations that balance the company’s financial goals with the needs of its partners, members, and restaurants to create value for all stakeholders. This role requires innate curiosity, an analytical mindset, strong technical capabilities, and excellent communication skills to discover, communicate, and create transformative business value.

What you’ll bring to the table: (Responsibilities)

- Collaborate with senior leaders and teams across Marketing, Partnerships, Finance, and Accounting as the go-to, trusted financial advisor
- Develop scalable reporting, dashboards, and analytics that improve visibility and afford actionable insights
- Prepare executive-level analyses and recommendations for the leadership team including strategic reviews, investment proposals, and key business initiatives
- Create and maintain automated, driver-based, financial offer models that optimize offer performance across offer activation, revenue, and costs
- Own the offer economics and budgeting process, ensuring financial viability, profitability, and maximizing business value

Do you have the right mix of ingredients: (Requirements)

- 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting or related analytical roles
- Experience supporting Sales, Partners, Marketing, or Strategic initiatives
- Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and business analysis skills
- Expertise to translate complex analyses into clear, actionable executive-level recommendations
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced, complex, and evolving environment

## Preferred Skills

- Experience in pricing strategy, offers designing, promotion and campaign performance analysis, revenue and margin optimization, customer segmentation, profitability analysis, product portfolio optimization, market share analysis, and/or other advanced quantitative analyses to drive data driven business initiatives
- Strong combination of finance, computer science, or data analytics expertise, with hands-on experience in Power Query, SQL, DAX, Python and PowerBI
- Advanced business or finance credentials (MBA or CFA preferred)

What you’ll love about us:

- This is a full time, exempt position, and the base compensation for this opening is expected to be $90,000-$115,000, depending on level, candidate experience, skills and other factors. This position is eligible for a 10% bonus with a total compensation of $99,000-$126,500.
- Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
- Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
- Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
- Dental plan options and a vision plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
- Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
- Short Term and Long Term disability
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
- Employee Life Assistance Program
- Hybrid working space in our state of the art office downtown located by the Metra and Ogilvie train stations

Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.

Expected Pay Range $90,000—$115,000 USD

## About Rewards Network

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rewards Network partners with local restaurants to drive full-price paying guests through a card-linked dining rewards program funded by the world’s largest loyalty programs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by TowerBrook Capital Partners)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Founded**: 1984 (over 40 years in operation)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Dining rewards, marketing services, financial services for restaurants
- **Target customers**: B2B (local and independent restaurants) and B2B2C (via loyalty program partners such as airlines, hotels, and retail brands)
- **Mission**: “When local restaurants thrive, communities thrive.”

## Products & Services
- **Dining Rewards Program**: A card-linked offer platform where diners earn rewards (e.g., airline miles, hotel points) for full-price dining at partner restaurants. Restaurants pay only when a verified member visits — no upfront costs, no discounts required.
- **Marketing Services**: National and local restaurant marketing via loyalty partner channels (e.g., American Airlines, Hilton, Caesars Rewards) to drive new, full-price customers.
- **Working Capital Solutions**: Rewards Network pre-purchases food and beverage on behalf of diners, providing restaurants with fast, non-loan capital (over $3.4 billion funded to date).
- **Data & Analytics Portal**: Live sales reports, guest survey analytics, and verified review management tools for restaurant partners.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $3.4 billion in total cash funded to restaurants; network of 20,000+ restaurant partners; 25 million+ dining members
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: TowerBrook Capital Partners (private equity backer). Strategic partners include American Airlines, United Airlines, Hilton Hotels, Caesars Entertainment, and other major loyalty programs.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 400 employees; expanding hybrid workforce with active hiring across Sales, Engineering, Product, and Data Science; investing in AI and advanced data analytics.

## Competitive Advantages
- **40+ Year Track Record**: Deeply entrenched in the restaurant financing and marketing ecosystem.
- **Unique Business Model**: Restaurants pay only for performance (actual customer visits), not for clicks or impressions — aligning incentives with restaurant success.
- **Exclusive Loyalty Network**: Access to 25 million+ verified, high-spend diners who are incentivized by top-tier loyalty currencies (miles, points) — not discounts.
- **Capital Without Debt**: Pre-purchase model provides restaurants with working capital without traditional loan terms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Technology & Data Analytics**: Renewed focus on advanced technology and more sophisticated data analytics under new leadership.
- **AI Investment**: Actively hiring an AI Operations Specialist, signaling a push into AI-driven marketing and operations.
- **National Sales Expansion**: Hiring Sales Account Executives in over 25 U.S. markets (from Seattle to Miami), indicating aggressive geographic growth.
- **Product Development**: Hiring Product Managers for B2C Offers and Senior Product Marketing Managers, suggesting new consumer-facing features.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Casual, collaborative environment with a “service mentality.” Emphasizes work/life balance, teamwork, and community involvement (e.g., volunteer events at Greater Chicago Food Depository).
- **Hybrid/Remote Policy**: Most corporate roles are listed as “Hybrid” (Chicago HQ). Field sales roles are remote in assigned territories.
- **Benefits**: Blue Cross Blue Shield medical, dental, vision; HSA with employer match; 401(k) with 50% match up to 8% of salary; generous PTO; 33% dining reimbursement at partner restaurants; commuter benefits; free on-site fitness center in Chicago.
- **Engineering Culture**: Agile development environment; teams include Scala, Python, and data engineering roles. Emphasis on iterative learning and fast execution.
- **Impact**: Directly helps local restaurant owners grow their businesses — a mission-driven role for those who care about small business success.
- **Fun Perks**: Ping pong tournaments, holiday parties, company lunches, volunteering events.

## Sources
1. [rewardsnetwork.com](https://www.rewardsnetwork.com/about-us/)
2. [rewardsnetwork.com](https://www.rewardsnetwork.com/)
3. [rewardsnetwork.com](https://www.rewardsnetwork.com/about-us/careers/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rewardsnetwork)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewards-network)

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