Corporate Finance Analyst

Purpose: The Corporate Finance Analyst supports strategic decision-making through financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, scenario analysis, and business case development. This role partners across Accounting, Operations, Commercial, Business Development, and other functions to evaluate business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support key corporate initiatives.

Essential Functions:

• Supports corporate finance activities including monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis across operating segments and corporate functions
• Performs financial and business analysis to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and operational improvement initiatives; prepares recommendations based on findings
• Develops, maintains, and updates financial models to support business planning, strategic initiatives, labor-related analyses, capital investments, and ad hoc requests
• Assists in the preparation of annual budgets, long-range plans, and periodic forecasts
• Performs variance analysis of actual versus budget, forecast, and prior period results
• Supports Finance Business Partners to provide financial analysis to key partners (IT, Commercial, Brands, etc.) through business case modeling and impact assessments
• Assists with industry, competitive, and market analysis
• Assists in the preparation of management reporting packages, presentations, dashboards, and executive summaries
• Supports continuous improvement initiatives focused on forecasting accuracy and analytical efficiency

Reporting Relationship: The Corporate Finance Analyst reports to the Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:

• Education and Experience: The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 5 years:
  • Requires 5 years of progressive analytical experience with focus on financial analysis, business analytics, corporate finance, accounting, consulting, or related functions

• A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Mathematics can count for 2 of the five-year requirement

• • Industry Experience: 3 years of Hospitality, F&B, and/or Retail experience preferred

• Specialized Skillset/Competencies/Traits:
  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially in Excel including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, complex formulas, and financial modeling
  • Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Power Query, SAP, Anaplan, AI models or similar tools preferred
  • Exceptional attention to detail with demonstrated accuracy in complex calculations and data analysis
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to analyze and integrate complex data from multiple sources and present actionable insights
  • Ability to work efficiently and deliver high-quality results under tight deadlines; demonstrates consistent quick turnaround of work and fast response times on communication
  • Strong interpersonal skills with ability to communicate with stakeholders across various departments
  • Business acumen and also has the mindset required to understand the long-term implications of corporate finance 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
• Location: This role is based at the North America Support Center in Bethesda, MD