Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, Charlotte, NC

The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis is responsible for transforming data into strategic insights for the Executive Leadership team. The successful candidate will be highly passionate about leveraging data to drive real-time business decisions and play a critical role in leading a high-growth business. This position is Hybrid with 3-4 days Onsite. Will consider relocating the right candidate to Charlotte, NC. This position will help with relocation assistance.

The ideal candidate will possess a highly analytical and questioning mindset, strong work ethic, ability to analyze various data points and data sets to build critical insights and discuss a compelling story to drive action, present business insights deep dives, and play an integral role in Executive-level strategic planning. The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will take a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics and various dimensions of the business when approaching strategic business solutions. This role reports directly to the CFO.

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis Responsibilities:

– Maintain and enhance the companies short and long-term planning models to produce monthly financial projections and a financial performance package for the CFO and management team.
– Own the annual restaurant plan and all regular reporting of financial and operational data which impacts financial performance.
– Produce a monthly presentation regarding financial performance, variance analysis, updates to rolling forecast, key trends, and KPIs, with input from senior management/department leaders.
– Spearhead the effort to reduce results variability, analyzing root causes and driving forecasting improvements and potential for cost reductions/improvements in profitability.
– Develop and maintain a deep understanding of complex revenue and cost drivers for the company and all departments.
– Develop financial models and derive analysis to support transactions, strategic business planning and operational modeling.
– Analyze research data and synthesize raw information into insights and recommendations and act as the last line of defense before data is finalized or released to stakeholders.
– Evolve, develop, and grow business intelligence solutions for the organization while serving as a trusted partner to the CFO, CEO, and entire Executive Leadership Team.
– Transform data collected across multiple touch points including Technology, Digital, Marketing, Store Operations, Culinary, Development and Supply Chain into strategic insights for the Executive Leadership team.
– Proactively identify business challenges and opportunities through data analysis, and work with business leaders to leverage data-related discipline to find strategic, mathematical-based solutions.
– Lead end-to-end project delivery aimed at identifying, analyzing, developing, and implementing business intelligence metrics.
– Develop reports and dashboards to improve business processes, provide visibility and accelerate data-driven decision making as well as drive Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting, ad hoc business reporting and analysis as needed.
– Provide input into developing the annual plan and strategic investments, while anticipating future and ongoing needs of the company.
– Drive coordination and management across multiple business groups and stakeholders to source accurate, efficient, and relevant data.
– Ensure data integrity and accuracy by performing detailed data exploration and validation to identify trends, tendencies, and anomalies with a proven ability to audit outcomes and structure processes to ensure data accuracy.
– Support the identification and application of statistical techniques with the ability to write queries, analyze data patterns, trends, outliers, and correlations.

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis Qualifications:

– Need Regression Analysis experience.
– Need advanced experience using Excel.
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Finance, Statistics, or related discipline.
– 5+ years of relevant experience in a financial planning & analysis role, including business intelligence tools, techniques, and technology.
– 3+ years of experience using business intelligence reporting tools.
– Experience in utilizing individual guest and SKU/item level data sets.
– High degree of comfort and demonstrated experience working with Executive Leadership.
– Solutions orientated with demonstrated decision making and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
– Experience building statistical models and performing analysis with large datasets.
– Extreme passion for using data to uncover insights and drive business performance.
– Familiar with data visualization best practices
– Experience taking large volumes of data and condensing it into a clean, insightful, and automated format.
– Outstanding ability to communicate and drive discussions on data and insights, context, and implications with businesses and technology partners.
– Ability to identify, analyze and resolve problems logically and systematically.
– Highly agile with the ability to execute well in a fast-paced rapidly evolving organization.
– Restaurant and retail industry experience is a plus.

Benefits include medical insurance, retirement plan, PTO, etc. Salary: 80K+ DOE. Keywords: Charlotte NC Jobs, Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Business Intelligence, PowerBI, Enterprise Scale Dashboards, Reports, Scorecards, Data Sets, Statistical Models, Data Visualization, KPI, Key Performance Indicators, Restaurant Industry, North Carolina Recruiters, IT Jobs, North Carolina Recruiting

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