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Inspire Brands Finance Allocations Analyst in Atlanta, Georgia
Support the execution of Inspire’s financial objectives by playing a critical role in ensuring our allocation processes are executed timely and accurately. This role supports analytical and business partnership goals across our shared services, franchise, and company segments by assisting in the delivery of reporting and other information required to meet stakeholder needs.
Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes nearly 32,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC Drive-In restaurants worldwide. As a rapidly changing and growing company, those with an appetite to learn and grow will thrive.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Process: Assist in delivering the end-to-end allocation process and associated tools, which are the key financial “plumbing” for determining how shared services costs are allocated across the organization.
Data Inputs: Assist in the collection and synthetization of business-driven inputs to support the maintenance and periodic updating of cost center allocation methodologies.
Model Management: Support the on-going maintenance and execution of the allocations model.
Systems: Successfully load the updated allocations model outputs into the planning tool.
Business Partnering: Provide excellent customer service to brand and brand finance teams seeking to understand and digest allocations and brand funding of shared service capabilities.
Communications: Assist in the preparation of presentations related to allocation methodologies and their financial impact for internal stakeholders. Find opportunities to automate reporting by maximining enterprise tools.
Data Analysis: Ensure raw data used in reporting, analysis, and planning is accurate and complete.
Reporting: Assist in completing monthly variance analysis for allocations, ensuring any material variances are communicated.
Ad-hoc: Support in ad hoc analysis as needed.
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS :
Required: Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field.
Preferred: Master’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field and CPA.
EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS:
Required: 1-3 years of experience in planning & analysis
Preferred: Experience in the hospitality industry and/or franchised businesses
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, or ABILITIES:
Required: Comfort with ambiguity and tolerance for a dynamic set of tasks and priorities.
Required: Strong track record as a proven team player.
Required: Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
Required: Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Required: Ability to manage time and multiple projects, often with time constraints.
Strongly Preferred: Experience in successfully navigating within large, matrix organizations.
Strongly Preferred: Experience with complex excel models and functions such as vlookups, sumifs, index/match etc. to support allocations, forecasting, analysis, and reporting.
Preferred: Experience with relational databases including Oracle and SQL.
Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes nearly 32,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC Drive-In restaurants worldwide.
We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.