Inspire

Inspire

Director, Finance - Enterprise Capital Planning

Atlanta Support Center · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
Data StructuresData VisualizationAccountingForecastingBudgetingExcelValuationFP&ACadenceLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoringPublic SpeakingMicrosoft OfficeVariance AnalysisCFA

About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the day-to-day lead for enterprise capital planning, governance, and portfolio framing across Shared Services, inclusive of Technology, and ICR investment categories, ensuring all proposed spend is evaluated consistently against company priorities, timing constraints, funding capacity, and return expectations.
  • Own the Capital Committee (CAPCOM) operating cadence, including agenda setting, portfolio sequencing, submission standards, pre-read expectations, and escalation of unresolved analytical or process gaps before items reach executive review.
  • Support the continuous improvement of capital planning frameworks, including common project structures, hierarchy logic, business case requirements, return methodologies, sensitivity analysis, and value realization standards used across the portfolio.
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders through business case development and investment trade-off discussions by pressure-testing assumptions, clarifying value drivers, and increasing consistency in how projects are evaluated across domains.
  • Manage financial processes and partner with the business to provide updates on investments including accrual calculations and updated forecasts, analysis of variance drivers, and analysis of financial returns.
  • Partner with Technology, Product, ICR, Brand, Accounting, Treasury, and Corporate FP&A teams to ensure financial outputs, planning assumptions, and project tracking remain accurate, complete, and aligned across systems and teams.
  • Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities tied to capital planning, project tracking, and financial data quality, including enhancements to planning tools, reporting assets, and operating procedures that improve scale and repeatability.
  • Lead and develop a high-performing enterprise capital planning team by setting clear role scope, coaching direct reports, establishing quality expectations, and ensuring the team operates with strong analytical rigor and effective cross-functional partnership.
  • Advanced ability to manage business case frameworks, value realization approaches, and project financial tracking processes.
  • The ability to partner effectively with Technology, Product, Brand, ICR, Accounting, Treasury, and Corporate FP&A stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Required: 8+ years of relevant experience across FP&A, capital planning, strategic finance, investment analysis, project finance, or comparable corporate finance functions.
  • Required: 3+ years of progressive leadership experience managing professionals in a matrixed organization and directing work across multiple functional stakeholders.
  • REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, or ABILITIES
  • Experience improving financial systems, planning tools, or capital tracking solutions that increase transparency and repeatability.
  • Experience in multi-brand, restaurant, retail, or similarly complex operating environments with shared service and technology investment complexity.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or Strategy and/or CPA, CFA, or similar professional certification.
  • Experience supporting enterprise technology, digital, data, other shared services, and/or multi-brand restaurant capital portfolios.
  • Deep understanding of capital planning, investment analysis, and return methodologies, including DCF, IRR, NPV, ROI, payback, break-even, and scenario/sensitivity modeling.
  • Strong strategic and financial judgment with the ability to evaluate investment trade-offs across multiple business domains and distinguish material drivers from noise.
  • Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex issues into concise insights and present clearly to senior leadership.
  • Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, accounting concepts, and the interaction between capital, depreciation, and operating expense impacts.
  • High degree of accuracy, discretion, and confidentiality in handling sensitive financial, strategic, and organizational information.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including development of complex models, executive presentations, and portfolio reporting.

Compensation

  • Support long-range planning, annual planning, and periodic forecasting tied to the enterprise capital portfolio, including scenario modeling, timing alternatives, and capital sensitivity views across varying levels of project success.

Company info

  • Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills with the ability to identify alternative solutions, assess consequences, and challenge assumptions constructively.
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