Director of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

The Director of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) serves a pivotal role in financial planning and decision support, working across numerous departments to provide a wide range of financial and business decision support information to operations, finance and executive management.

The ideal candidate for this role enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and has superior financial and analytical background, a solid understanding of overall business operations, and enjoys working on complex and critical projects.

What you’ll do:

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  Financial analysis – Manage analyses that identify, evaluate and communicate business results, trends and outlooks. Leverage tools and systems to quickly access data and present meaningful, concise information to various levels of management. Lead the preparation of analysis, commentary and presentation materials for monthly business review meetings including both financial results and business initiatives.
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  Project support and ad hoc requests – Manage the development, preparation and communication of ad hoc financial and business analytics on numerous new revenue and cost-saving initiatives, return on investment analyses and other projects as needed.
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  Financial reporting – Prepare, analyze and summarize various weekly, monthly and periodic reporting and analysis for use by store-level operations, multi-unit and concept leadership, executive management and Board of Directors. Manage preparation of quarterly reporting to Board of Directors.
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  Planning process – Prepare and direct the compilation of store and concept-level annual plan and present analysis of monthly forecast vs. actual results. Highlight and understand major forecast assumptions and their effects on company/concept outlook. Perform sensitivity analyses to assess reasonable range of outcomes.
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  Decision Support – Direct development and execution of business analytics to provide value-added insights for concept and finance leadership. Utilize data mining techniques to analyze complex financial information, develop key takeaways and provide recommendations to senior leadership
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  Process improvement – Continuously develop tools/systems and automate processes. Evaluate current processes and implement improvements. Manage the implementation of a budgeting and forecasting solution to streamline the forecasting and budgeting processes and provide enhanced reporting functionality.
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  Financial modeling – Prepare comprehensive financial models with an integrated set of financial statements, assumptions and metrics. Analyze past results and future outcomes in conjunction with market analyses to develop recommendations for changes in model assumptions. Perform sensitivity analyses to assess reasonable range of outcomes.
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  Leadership and coaching – Provide guidance to direct reports and other FP&A team members in best practices of financial analyses, report/project deliverables, and business communications.

Job Description

We are seeking:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or similar finance field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience Finance, Economics, or similar finance field.
• Has a growth mindset, and has worked in fast-paced environments, with the ability to quickly adapt to change
• Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to analyze and perform root cause analysis on business trends and provide senior leaders with a grounded view of current business trends
• Expert knowledge in financial systems and database applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, business intelligence, data warehousing, and data mining
• Ability to work cross-functionally with teams at various levels throughout the organization to drive meaningful change in the business
• Ability to communicate and present results to different audiences at various levels throughout the organization