Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Opportunity, growth, and meaningful rewards! We offer:

- Health, dental and vision insurance

- Generous paid time off (vacation, flex or sick)

- *401(k) retirement plan

- *Company paid life insurance

- *Tuition reimbursement

- Employee assistance program

- Training and exciting career growth opportunities

- Referral program – refer a friend and earn a bonus

*Benefits may vary by position so ask your recruiter for details.

Location: Corporate CFO Mgmt
Advertised Compensation: $127,600.00 to $159,500.00

Purpose: The purpose of the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is to create and execute the strategic financial plan of the organization and provide critical business analysis on mergers and acquisitions.

Essential Functions:

- Prepares the annual and long-range financial plans as well as forecasts for key stakeholders.

- Analyzes budget and forecast submissions for accuracy, reasonableness, and consistency with objectives.

- Works with stakeholders to enforce deadlines and provides guidance and instructions on planning submission requirements and deadlines.

- Analyzes and reports on consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual results and those of each operating segments as well as general & administrative expenses.

- Provides analytical support for operations, corporate departments, and parent company

- Supports the preparation of presentations for management

- Provides recommendations for revenue and profitability improvement

- Develops priorities to improve productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness

- Conducts industry and competitive analyses to identify and address the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

- Prepares business cases for corporate capital projects

- Works with Corporate Accounting to review lease disclosures for reasonableness, consistency and conformity with corporate policies

- Supports the merger & acquisitions process within the organization, including conducting analysis and valuation of acquisition targets or divestitures.

- Support legal with negotiating merger & acquisition terms and conditions.

- Conducts due diligence and integration of targets

Reporting Relationship: This position reports to the Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Major Interdependencies: Operations, Operational Excellence, Business Development Finance

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:

- Education and Experience: The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 8 years:

In a leadership role: Requires 3 years of experience leading a team of financial analysis and planning professionals

- In a technical role: Requires 8 years of financial analysis and planning experience engaged in developing and delivering budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and accounting programs

A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or Finance can count for 3 of the eight-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 the eight-year requirement.

- In the industry: 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience

- Specialized Training:

Requires in-depth knowledge of at least one financial planning and reporting application (e.g., Anaplan, PeopleSoft, SAP, Hyperion, Business Objects, Adaptive/Workday, Oracle, IBM, etc; multiple preferred).

- Specialized Skillset/Competencies/Traits

Advanced business acumen and also has the strategic mindset required to understand the long-term implications of FP&A decisions and to advance the organizations goals

- Requires expert level Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to create and modify pivot tables and advanced formulas

- Demonstrated history of anticipating the needs of the business and complex stakeholders, the employee population, and individual circumstances

- Demonstrated history of creating and maintaining positive work environ ments through coaching, developing, and leading teams to achieve common goals

- Demonstrated experience exhibiting a continuous improvement mindset with the ability to optimize work processes and achieve positive results

- Location/Travel:

This position can be based at either North America Support Center in Bethesda, MD or East Rutherford, NJ, or the Regional Support Center in Toronto, Canada

- Occasional travel to other locations may be required based on business needs

Avolta, including Dufry, HMSHost Corporation, Hudson, and affiliates (“the Company”), is an equal opportunity employer. It is the Company’s policy to ensure equal employment opportunity in all aspects of employment and to comply with anti-discrimination laws and regulations. The Company prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal opportunities to applicants and team members without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, age, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, national origin, disability, military service and veteran status, ancestry, citizenship status, marital status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances (referred to as “protected characteristics”).