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Black & Gold Country Club Financial and Operational Model
Acted as third-party operations consultants for a multi-location country club chain to clean and transform raw POS data, construct 2-year profit/loss financial models, analyze multi-tier bank expansion financing scenarios, and evaluate employee compensation structures.
- When
- August – December 2024
- My role
- Team of 3 · Model Construction and Scenario Design
- Discipline
- Analytics
4 LocationsExpansion & POS Model
Situation
Black & Gold Country Club experienced rapid multi-location expansion across Michigan and Indiana. The leadership team needed third-party consulting support to transform meaningless, coded Point of Sale (POS) data into actionable business intelligence, evaluate 2-year multi-site financial performance, and model CapEx loan financing options for opening a new location.
Analysis
- Processed and cleaned raw, coded POS sales data using Power Query, XLOOKUP, and dynamic data tables to establish a structured data hierarchy.
- Built 2023–2024 Profit and Loss (P&L) models across all operating sites to analyze operational efficiency and forecast revenue growth for the proposed expansion site.
- Evaluated capital expenditure costs for the new buildout, modeling down-payment strategies, APR variations, and 3-tier bank loan amortization schedules (Best Case, Most Likely, Worst Case).
- Evaluated the financial impact of a new tenure-based employee bonus compensation structure against net profitability.Utilized advanced data filtering on member databases to assist with cross-referencing complex operational criteria.
Outcome
- Delivered a consulting business memo and executive presentation detailing growth recommendations, new site expansion feasibility, and financing strategies.
- Developed fully dynamic loan amortization and scenario models to optimize interest rates and down-payment allocation across prospective lending institutions.
- Provided executive leadership with data-backed workforce retention insights and actionable recommendations on compensation structuring.
Tools
- Excel modeling
- Power Query
- Scenario Manager
- XLOOKUP / VLOOKUP
- Data visualization