Best Food Services Hiring for FP&A Manager Job at Chicago, IL Full Time

Role Summary:

Responsible for delivering consolidated management reporting, financial analysis, and business insights to the leadership team. The position facilitates the end-to-end business and financial planning process responsible for driving deeper insights and support into financial, operational and workforce related performance and decisions. The successful candidate will implement and drive the core financial processes for the business including Annual Operating Plans, Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews, identify and quantify financial/operational risks and opportunities to the business, and drive ad-hoc business projects. This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in people management and thought leadership.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

• Leads consolidated management reporting and analysis activities, including preparing, analyzing, interpreting data and trends.
• Manage planning process and build financial models and analytical toolsets for budgeting, forecasting, and driving performance.
• Develops and monitors key business performance metrics across the consolidated and individual business lines or entities.
• Provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management based on analysis for purposes of scenario analysis, business case analysis, return on investment, and regulatory/audit engagements.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing processes, strengthen internal controls and optimize data management.
• Coach operational leaders on systems and tools to develop a data driven decision making methodology.
• Along with Controllership and IT Applications, assist in optimizing cost centers, GL accounts, and channel hierarchies to best facilitate analysis and reporting.
• Coordinates internal audit across all operating companies with accounting and operations.
• Maintain BI data analytics to support pricing strategy, demand planning and forecasting

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting, or related data analytics field.
• Five plus years of financial planning and business analysis experience required.
• Strong knowledge of planning and performance processes, including annual budget, monthly forecast, and periodic business reviews.
• Cost accounting background is highly preferred.
• Data modeling and analytical skills including utilization of BI tools for dashboard creation.
• Ability to follow through on issues, make informed decisions that comply with policies and procedures,complete tasks and problem-solve.
• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all levels within the organization.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, confidentiality.
• Bilingual Chinese is a plus but not required.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off/Paid sick time
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Employee assistance program
• Employee referral program

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Work Location: One location