Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

The FP & Analysis Manager will be leading the FP&A in the budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, implementation, and business strategic analysis. The role provides financial consulting and strategic support to senior management to ensure efficient financial operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS:

• Reviews analysis results, develop insightful suggestions for pricing, investment, sourcing, cost reduction that help the management in strategic business decisions.
• Accountable for providing operators with improvement areas & benchmarking P&L items.
• Reports on a monthly variation on financial statements, P&L and cash flow status.
• Lead a team responsible for providing financial forecasting and analysis that is necessary to drive growth and operational efficiencies including month-end processing, management review of budget vs. actual results, and trend analysis
• Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
• Oversee and manage the continued development of Budgeting, Financial Forecasting, Operating Plan, and Modelling tools
• Oversees the sales budgets & monitors sales transactions
• Ad-Hoc Reporting and Analysis
• Presents weekly & monthly sales reports to franchisors
• Oversee the formulation of daily sales forecast models
• Provide analytical support to all Brands in all the countries where we operate
• Provides short term cash flow analysis and forecasting
• Track & monitor P&L to ensure cost is within budget
• Develop and monitor Dashboards and KPIs across restaurants division
• Review and approves succession planning for relevant key positions to comply with the succession planning process
• Accountable for ensuring the first and second line of successors are prepared for identified critical and key roles/positions to ensure timely readiness of employees to assume those roles.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• BS in Finance- MBA is strongly preferred
• 4+ years of solid experience within a retail property management environment
• Experience in multi-unit retail/restaurant concepts preferred
• Strong business partnering skills and holistic view of business strategy, processes, and financial objectives.
• Strong analytical abilities with sharp attention to detail.
• Excellent analytical skills, the ability to perform complex financial analyses and modeling.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and deal effectively with all levels of an organization
• Business acumen and excellent communication skills.
• Proven efficiency in dealing with complex matters with multiple stakeholders and forces
• Proven resources management, people management and leadership skills

Position as a replacement of the employee during the Maternity Leave period.