Finance Manager - Value Realization
McDonald's
- Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Oversee financial objectives throughout all areas of a program – planning, budgeting, and executional oversight
- Ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships
- Manage and drive the measurement, reporting and analysis of business metrics and analytics
- Implement value realization process across the organization, impacting all functions and business units
- Manage multiple business cases and programs at once across the portfolio; responsible for knowledge of assets/tools/standards implemented
- Partner closely with company leadership and ELT level interaction
- Identify, develop and implement process improvements for timely aggregation and impact reporting through performance metrics and dashboards
- Work with multiple stakeholders to devise, measure and report Key Performance Metrics (KPIs), construct a flexible business model, and create reporting tools to measure value created for the business
- Financial reconciliation and analysis
- Coordinate multiple deliverables and act as an ambassador across teams to effectively streamline the strategic vision to ensure execution
- Lead teams in weekly meetings to track progress and impact to multiple business cases
- Guide and prepare the team for executive business reviews, and all strategic planning cycles
- Ensure all planning and operation deadlines are met without fail
- Present results of analyses directly to senior executives through the creation and delivery of compelling and insightful presentations
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- 5+ years of relevant experience such as FP&A, Big 4, or similar experience
- Cross-functional expertise
- Strong leadership skills and a desire to work hard and lead from the front
- Ability to recognize operational deficiencies through data, and effectively translate/communicate model outcomes and value driven opportunities to leadership
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a superior ability to present to executives and communicate with diverse stakeholders
- Deep knowledge of Excel and data modeling
- Ability to thrive in an unstructured, ambiguous environment
- MBA, relevant Master’s degree (business, accounting, finance) or consulting experience strongly preferred
- Ability to jump from one planning and operations problem to the next seamlessly
- Advanced financial acumen (comfortable with P&L statements and financial modeling/forecasting)