Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Purpose: The purpose of the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is to create and execute the strategic financial plan of the organization and provide critical business analysis on mergers and acquisitions.

Essential Functions:

• Prepares the annual and long-range financial plans as well as forecasts for key stakeholders.
• Analyzes budget and forecast submissions for accuracy, reasonableness, and consistency with objectives.
• Works with stakeholders to enforce deadlines and provides guidance and instructions on planning submission requirements and deadlines.
• Analyzes and reports on consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual results and those of each operating segments as well as general & administrative expenses.
• Provides analytical support for operations, corporate departments, and parent company
• Supports the preparation of presentations for management
• Provides recommendations for revenue and profitability improvement
• Develops priorities to improve productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness
• Conducts industry and competitive analyses to identify and address the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
• Prepares business cases for corporate capital projects
• Works with Corporate Accounting to review lease disclosures for reasonableness, consistency and conformity with corporate policies
• Supports the merger & acquisitions process within the organization, including conducting analysis and valuation of acquisition targets or divestitures.
• Support legal with negotiating merger & acquisition terms and conditions.
• Conducts due diligence and integration of targets

Reporting Relationship: This position reports to the Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Major Interdependencies: Operations, Operational Excellence, Business Development Finance

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:

Education and Experience: The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 8 years:

• In a leadership role: Requires 3 years of experience leading a team of financial analysis and planning professionals
• In a technical role: Requires 8 years of financial analysis and planning experience engaged in developing and delivering budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and accounting programs
• A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or Finance can count for 3 of the eight-year requirement
• An MBA or a master’s level degree in a program related to the functional area can count for an additional 2 years of the eight-year requirement.
• In the industry: 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience

Specialized Training:

• Requires in-depth knowledge of at least one financial planning and reporting application (e.g., Anaplan, PeopleSoft, SAP, Hyperion, Business Objects, Adaptive/Workday, Oracle, IBM, etc; multiple preferred).

Specialized Skillset/Competencies/Traits

• Advanced business acumen and also has the strategic mindset required to understand the long-term implications of FP&A decisions and to advance the organizations goals
• Requires expert level Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to create and modify pivot tables and advanced formulas
• Demonstrated history of anticipating the needs of the business and complex stakeholders, the employee population, and individual circumstances
• Demonstrated history of creating and maintaining positive work environments through coaching, developing, and leading teams to achieve common goals
• Demonstrated experience exhibiting a continuous improvement mindset with the ability to optimize work processes and achieve positive results

Location/Travel:

• This position has the opportunity to work remotely but is required to travel to the F&B Center of Excellence in Bethesda or Retail Center of Excellence in East Rutherford, NJ at least 3 days per week and as needed
• Occasional travel to other locations may be required based on business needs