Purpose: The Sr Manager Strategic Planning (Financial Planning and Analysis) 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 Strategic Planning reports into the Director of Strategic Planning
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 strategic planning programs.
- In a technical role: Requires 6-8 years of experience engaged in developing and delivering strategic planning 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 3-5 years
Specialized Training:
- Training that leads to an in-depth understanding of the PeopleSoft or SAP Financials and/or other Enterprise Resource Planning systems experience (nVision / Hyperion / Business Warehouse experience preferred)
Specialized Skillset/Competencies/Traits
- Requires advanced Excel and financial modeling skills (VBA strongly preferred)
- Business acumen and also has the mindset required to understand the long-term implications of strategic planning and to advance the organizations 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 requires regular hybrid attendance at the F&B Center of Excellence in Bethesda, MD or Retail Center of Excellence in East Rutherford, NJ
- This position may require up to 10% travel to airport locations