Senior Manager, FP&A - Bethesda, MD or East Rutherford, NJ

Purpose: The Senior Manager of FP&A is responsible for leading business and financial analysis for F&B and retail business, conducting analysis to identify cost optimization and efficiency opportunities, managing budget targets and periodic/quarterly forecast processes, leading analysis for strategic and tactical initiatives of the operations group, interacting with senior field management to facilitate operations decision making process.

Essential Functions:

• Leads financial and business analysis for F&B and retail business
• Conducts analysis to identify cost optimization and efficiency opportunities, prepares associated actions plans and follows up on their execution
• Independently prepares ad hoc business analysis to proactively anticipate potential business opportunities and challenges
• Prepares analysis to explain business performance, also on a pro-forma and normalized basis
• Leads budget targets process and quarterly/periodic operations forecasts
• Manages preparation of business key performance indicators, with particular focus on industry and traffic trend evolution (e.g. capture)
• Provides leadership to Business Analytics team as well as to other departments in terms of financial analysis

Reporting Relationship: The Senior Manager FP&A reports to the Director of FP&A

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:

• Education and Experience: The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 6 years:
  • In a leadership role: Requires 2 years of experience supervising a team professionals engaged in executing financial analysis programs
  • In a technical role: Requires 6-8 years of experience engaged in developing and delivering financial analysis programs
    • A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 3 of the 6-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 6-year requirement
  • In the industry: 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience
• Specialized Training:
  • Training that leads to an in-depth understanding of SAP Financials and/or other Enterprise Resource Planning systems experience (Anaplan / Hyperion / Business Warehouse experience preferred)
• Specialized Skillset/Competencies/Traits:
  • Requires advanced Excel and financial modeling skills (VBA, Power BI, Power Query strongly preferred)
  • Proven experience in managing, transforming, and analyzing large, complex data sets to drive actionable insights
  • Business acumen and also has the mindset required to understand the long-term implications of FP&A planning and to advance the organization’s goals
  • Demonstrated history of understanding the needs of the business, 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
• Location/Travel:
  • This position may be based at either North America Support Center in Bethesda, MD or East Rutherford, NJ
  • This position may require up to 10% travel to airport locations