Based in Pasadena, California, Dine Brands Global, Inc. (NYSE: DIN), through its subsidiaries, franchises restaurants under Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar®, IHOP® and Fuzzy's Taco Shop® brands. With over 3,500 restaurants combined in 18 countries and 354 franchisees as of December 31, 2023, Dine Brands is one of the largest full-service restaurant companies in the world. For more information on Dine Brands, visit the Company's website located at www.dinebrands.com.
The Senior Manager, Finance & Business Analytics role includes a mix of strategic decision support and business unit P&L oversight. Typical duties require the ability to solve problems by piecing together data points to derive insights, construct logical conclusions, and inform recommendations, based on knowable facts combined with rational intuition. In addition to serving as a business partner to cross-functional leaders, this role also contributes to recurring financial forecasts and business reviews.
Key Responsibilities
Connects ideas into cohesive, data-driven recommendations, highlighting conclusions and visualizing trends to support operational decisions
Emphasizes a focus on top line growth through marketing and sales analytics; quantifies the impacts of changes in traffic, price, product mix, and other components of revenue
Reports on franchisee profitability and analyzes trends to explain the key drivers
Ownership of the monthly forecast, annual budget, and strategic 5-year plan for the business unit, including Segment Profit, G&A, and EBITDA
Partners with cross-functional teams to design analytical and reporting tools that promote sharing of insights; manages stakeholder expectations with respect to analytics-related tasks
Maintains a culture of high-quality output and exceptional customer service by effectively communicating at all levels and responding appropriately to ambiguous requests
Builds presentations for use in leadership meetings, presenting material at times
Reviews and challenges reports and analysis for both accuracy and purpose, ensuring that they are concise and distributed to customers in a timely fashion
Manages one direct report
Base salary target 140k+
Must-haves
Bachelor's degree in finance, statistics, mathematics, economics, or a related field
Minimum 8-10 years' experience in FP&A and/or business analytics
Experience leading financial/business analysts, managing and reviewing a team's deliverables
Highly proficient in building executive-facing Microsoft Excel models and PowerPoint presentations
Extensive hands-on experience using MicroStrategy and/or comparable business intelligence tools
Excellent project management skills; ability to prioritize, manage multiple projects at once and meet deadlines
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Working knowledge of accounting/financial theory and practice
Nice-to-haves
MBA
Industry experience in multi-unit restaurant, hospitality, or retail
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