Supply Chain Financial Analyst

IRB USA Inspire Resources; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspire is seeking a finance analyst to partner with the Supply Chain organization, supporting US and international teams across brands. The role covers monthly close, variance analysis, and financial modeling improvements.

This position is based at our Atlanta Global Support Center and requires onsite presence four days weekly. Responsibilities include budgeting, long-range planning, and delivering actionable insights on pricing, margins and manufacturing costs.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field.
• 0-2 years of experience in finance or accounting; 1-2 years preferred.
• Experience with supply chain and/or scaled purchasing analysis preferred.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Strong business partnership, solution-generating and collaboration abilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Ability to handle competing priorities, often with considerable time constraints.
• Demonstrate willingness to do whatever it takes to meet ever changing departmental and customer needs.
• Thrive in a cross-functional capacity.
• Strongly preferred: Experience with Smartview and other Oracle applications.
• Strongly preferred: Experience supporting widespread field environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close process, including reconciling the financial results vs. projection and budget, making appropriate journal entries, and reforecasting through the end of the year.
• Create monthly summaries of financial results to be shared with Supply Chain Leadership, detailing the main variance drivers, including commodity fluctuations and obsolescence drivers.
• Participate in annual budgeting process and long-range planning for various business segments.
• Provide analytical support that helps maintain and improve Inspire and licensee/franchisee profitability.
• This includes analysis of product margins, production expense analysis, as well as performing risk assessments for the businesses.
• Perform data driven modeling and analysis on product pricing, product mix data, manufacturing variances etc., for purposes of turning it into actionable information.
• Continuously find opportunities to improve processes, capabilities and tools needed to support Supply Chain and relevant stakeholders.
• Proactively work with business partners to develop, implement, and automate reporting that will assist in critical decision-making needs.
• Support existing and new supply chain initiatives with meaningful financial analysis and function as an overall business partner to our Global Supply Chain colleagues.
• Manage relationships with suppliers as it relates to pricing accuracy, obsolescence exposure, and other financial impacts.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Business partnership

Collaboration

Problem solving

Independent work

Cross-functional

Time management

Prioritization

Team player

Smartview

Oracle apps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting

Tools

Smartview

Oracle applications

Job description

Act as a finance partner to the Supply Chain organization by supporting both U.S. and International Supply Chain teams across all brands in the Inspire portfolio. The Analyst will complete monthly close activities, provide analytical support, and offer recommendations concerning financial matters. This role will provide technical support to maintain financial models as well as identify and implement broader process improvements related to the Supply Chain group. This position sits within our Atlanta based Global Support Center with an expectation to be onsite 4 days per week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Own the monthly close process, including reconciling the financial results vs. projection and budget, making appropriate journal entries, and reforecasting through the end of the year. Create monthly summaries of financial results to be shared with Supply Chain Leadership, detailing the main variance drivers, including commodity fluctuations and obsolescence drivers. Participate in annual budgeting process and long-range planning for various business segments. Provide analytical support that helps maintain and improve Inspire and licensee/franchisee profitability. This includes analysis of product margins, production expense analysis, as well as performing risk assessments for the businesses. Perform data driven modeling and analysis on product pricing, product mix data, manufacturing variances etc., for purposes of turning it into actionable information. Continuously find opportunities to improve processes, capabilities and tools needed to support Supply Chain and relevant stakeholders. Proactively work with business partners to develop, implement, and automate reporting that will assist in critical decision-making needs. Support existing and new supply chain initiatives with meaningful financial analysis and function as an overall business partner to our Global Supply Chain colleagues. Manage relationships with suppliers as it relates to pricing accuracy, obsolescence exposure, and other financial impacts.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

• 4-Year degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field.
• 0 - 2 years of experience in finance or accounting with 1-2 years experience preferred.
• Experience with supply chain and/or scaled purchasing analysis preferred.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS or ABILITIES

• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Strong business partnership, solution-generating and collaboration abilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently
• Ability to handle competing priorities, often with considerable time constraints.
• Demonstrate willingness to do whatever it takes to meet ever changing departmental and customer needs.
• Thrive in a cross-functional capacity.
• Positive attitude and flexible team player committed to getting the job done
• Strongly preferred: Experience with Smartview and other Oracle applications.
• Strongly preferred: Experience supporting widespread field environment.

DIRECT REPORTS

None.

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,300 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John's, and SONIC 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. Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,400 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John's, and SONIC restaurants across 55 global markets. In an industry facing increasing disruption, our leaders saw an opportunity to build a restaurant company unlike any other - one that brings together differentiated yet complementary brands and aims to make them stronger than they would be on their own. Found inherently in the purposes of our family of brands, we identified a common thread between our restaurants - the capacity to inspire. From guest experience to career development to community well-being, Inspire plays a role in the lives of millions of people every day. Our brands are diverse, distinctive, and fan favorites. In a sense, you could say we seek those who provide something different than the norm.