Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes Looking for Director, Finance for Food and Beverage at Plano, TX Full Time

Do you enjoy working together as a team to accomplish major goals? Join Cinemark to utilize and expand your skills! We are dedicated to making the movie experience memorable, “One Guest at a time.” Our world class talent creates a warm and friendly culture through shared values.

The Director of Finance – Food and Beverage (F&B) will lead Cinemark’s Domestic F&B Operational Finance support organization. This is a high impact operational and commercially focused finance role, reporting directly to the SVP of Operational Finance. The Director of Finance – F&B has the demonstrated ability to deliver results, lead via influence, partner cross-functionally, drive consensus and build high-performing teams. This individual is data-centric with the ability to leverage data and analysis to help the organization achieve its strategic and operational goals.

The position will act as a strategic and collaborative business partner with the Executives of Cinemark’s Domestic F&B Department. The F&B department provides leadership over all F&B sales, new product development and new revenue initiatives, and is one of two key revenue and profit centers for the Domestic company. The position provides critical financial thought partnership as well as provides all financial and operational reporting, planning, forecasting, budgeting and analysis for revenues, expenses, profit margin and capex for the Executive leadership and operating personnel of Cinemark’s F&B Department. The position will also provide analysis and reporting of the F&B business to the CEO, CFO, Investor Relations (IR) and Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) departments.

Responsibilities

• Ownership over the delivery of the Domestic F&B financial results, partnering closely with F&B business leaders to drive achievement of the budget and advance our strategic initiatives.
• Deliver thought partnership and value-added analytical support to the EVP and VP of F&B: drive action through analysis, recommendation and execution.
• Bring a strategic mindset towards discovering opportunities and identifying new areas of growth or efficiency for F&B and merchandising.
• Interpret and summarize complex data to help achieve strategic and operational goals.
• Attract, develop, and retain strong finance talent.

• Streamline finance processes. Stand up repeatable and scalable solutions which enable controllership while shifting the balance of the team’s time towards value added support.
• Advance business intelligence and ad hoc reporting development to support the Theatre Operations Team..
• Provide support to IR in the preparation of quarterly earnings, Q&A and messaging.
• Types of analysis, financial models and critical thought leadership would cover areas such as:
• Margin and cannibalization analysis
• Product level trends
• Testing of new concepts and items, and impact on existing products
• Theatre, geographic and demographic market performance
• Cost of goods analysis
• Net profitability analysis including impact on labor costs
• ROI on new initiatives
• Pricing recommendation
• Create accurate budgeting and forecasts concession revenues and cost of goods, and capex, along with tracking of actuals versus budget
• Oversight of capex requests in the Food and Beverage area, including proforma models and post mortem analysis
• Coach, lead, develop and motivate direct reports
• Provide continuous and timely communication to leadership team

Job Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive financial experience, including broad financial partnering and leadership for operational teams in a dynamic organization
• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field from an accredited and recognized institution of higher learning is required with an advanced degree (MBA, equivalent) preferred
• Proven analytical skills with a hands-on and detail-oriented nature; able to accomplish deep-dive analytics both individually and in collaboration with the team
• Solid leadership skills with an ability to lead, influence, develop and motivate a team
• Curious, independent and proactive thinker with demonstrated record of approaching management with original and creative views on how to improve the business using data driven analysis
• Advanced Excel modeling and PowerPoint skills
• Clear verbal/written communication and presentation skills with an ability to influence and build positive interpersonal relationships
• Ability to cope in a fast, dynamic environment and manage a wide range of tasks simultaneously
• Track record of leading simplification and process improvement projects
• Collaborative, team player
• High degree of personal and professional integrity
• Multi-outlet brick & mortar retail and/or entertainment industry experience a plus
• Essbase, SQL, OLAP, Power BI or multi-dimensional database experience a plus
• Experience in database maintenance, design or queries a plus

DISCLAIMER: This job description is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Cinemark USA, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer