Job Location Maine Office - Portland, ME 04101 Position Type Full-time
Role: FP&A Manager
Reports To: CFO
Luke’s Lobster is a renowned seafood brand and a leading national restaurant group with nearly 30 locations, with both fast-casual and full-service lobster roll restaurants. We also operate our own seafood processing facility in Saco, Maine, ensuring our 'Shacks' provide our guests the highest quality, best tasting seafood. Further, we produce branded seafood grocery products as part of our CPG business at grocery stores and other outlets around the country.
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We are seeking a hands-on, highly analytical, and strategic finance leader to establish, build and grow our FP&A routines and disciplines in a fast-growing multi-unit restaurant and CPG seafood business. This is the first FP&A hire, and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to build, create, and design reporting, forecasting, and analytics capabilities from the ground up, drive ERP and system implementations, and partner directly with the CFO and leadership team to support scaling the business from $100M to $250M and beyond.
This role is ideal for a builder and problem solver who thrives on designing processes, building financial models, and creating dashboards to deliver actionable insights across operations, sales, marketing, and supply chain.
Financial Reporting & Analysis
Budgeting & Forecasting
Variance & Trend Analysis
Systems & Data Optimization
Strategic Partnership
Education & Experience
Technical Skills
Analytical & Strategic Skills
Communication & Collaboration
Must be able to be on-site in Maine full-time.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a collaborative, highly communicative professional who can clearly explain financial concepts to non-finance teammates. They bring an approachable, customer service–oriented mindset, recognizing that Finance plays a critical role in enabling informed, effective decision-making across the organization.
They are intellectually curious, eager to understand how the business operates, and motivated to dig into details to solve problems. They value continuous improvement and naturally look for opportunities to streamline workflows, strengthen controls, and help build scalable processes.
This person enjoys working across teams and readily steps in to assist wherever needed. They proactively recommend improvements, share knowledge, and serve as a reliable financial business partner to all organizational stakeholders. Ultimately, they balance accuracy and professionalism with empathy, clarity, and a genuine desire to help the business succeed.
Compensation and Benefits
About Luke’s Lobster
Luke’s Lobster was born out of the dream of Maine native and third-generation lobsterman Luke Holden to bring the quality lobster rolls of his youth to the big city. After meeting business partner Ben Conniff on Craigslist, the two twenty-somethings opened their first lobster shack in a 250 square foot space in NYC’s East Village in October 2009.
Now over 15 years later, Luke’s Lobster brings traceable, sustainable seafood to guests across the globe. Our vision is to be the world’s most trusted seafood brand. Our mission is to serve the best seafood because we care for it obsessively from the dock to you, and because we're devoted to serving the whole community of people it touches. We work directly with fishermen to hand pick the best seafood, bring it straight to our own seafood company in Saco, ME and then ship directly to our shacks, grocery partners, and consumers. Cutting out the middleman means better tasting seafood for you to enjoy and a fairer price for our fishermen.
At Luke’s, our company culture comes first. We are proud and passionate about the work environment we have fostered and are excited to see it continue to grow. We value diversity, creativity, transparency, and open communication from all levels. In 2018, we furthered our commitment to sustainability and socially conscious business practices by becoming a certified B Corporation®, reflecting Luke’s Lobster’s deep devotion to our communities, family of teammates, and the environment. Please visit www.lukeslobster.com for more information.
EEO Statement
Luke's Lobster provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to any status, including but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Luke's Lobster complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Luke's Lobster expressly prohibits all forms of workplace harassment. Improper interference with the ability of Luke's Lobster employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge. Essential job functions include standing for sustained periods of time, lifting objects from lower to higher positions, ascending or descending stairs or ladders, and bending, crouching, and reaching to low and high places. Luke's Lobster is a participant of E-Verify.
Luke’s Lobster was born out of the dream of Maine native and third-generation lobsterman Luke Holden to bring the quality, affordable lobster rolls of his youth to the big city. After meeting business partner Ben Conniff on Craigslist (yes, Craigslist), the two twenty-somethings opened their first lobster shack in a 250 square foot space in NYC’s East Village in October 2009. Nearly a decade later Luke’s Lobster shacks can be found in ten states across the U.S., and in Japan and Singapore. You can also find Luke's products in Whole Foods Markets nationwide and can have them shipped anywhere in the US through our Online Market!
As part of its mission to serve the best tasting seafood, sourced responsibly, Luke’s Lobster also built a state-of-the-art seafood facility in Saco, Maine, that allows the company to not only buy lobsters directly from fishermen at the dock but immediately steam, pick, and send them to its shacks to ensure perfect flavor and texture with every bite and transparent sourcing detail for its guests. In 2018, Luke & Ben furthered their growing seafood company’s commitment to sustainability and socially conscious business practices by becoming a certified B Corporation®, reflecting Luke’s Lobster’s deep devotion to each of its communities, its family of teammates, and the environment. Please visit www.lukeslobster.com for more information.
