Mgr, ASG Analysis

gategroup•Reston, VA

16d•$90,000 - $93,000

About The Position

We’re looking for motivated, engaged people to help make everyone’s journeys better. Responsible for managing, coordinating, and performing functional work in the following key areas: pricing and billing/reconciliation. The pricing function involves the development/creation/maintenance of customer’s prices into the Gate Gourmet SAP and customer system. The billing/reconciliation function involves the creation/maintenance of customer schedules/invoices, submission of final invoices for payment, and monitoring the customer aging for unpaid balances. The pricing and billing/reconciliation teams work together for a given customer(s) under the leadership and supervision of the manager and director. The core objective of the department is to drive operations in the area of order-to-cash. The functional roles interface with various internal groups and as follows: culinary, procurement/sourcing, industrial engineering, accounting finance, commercial, FP&A, unit operations/finance.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree required, from an accredited university. Previous financial experience preferred.
5-7 years or more previous demonstrated analyst work experience.
Proven experience within an SAP environment.
Work experience in finance, finance operations, and/or manufacturing environment
Work experience in a food production or food service environment
Experience working within a cross-functional team
Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in three core job functions (Billing, Data, Pricing)
Must demonstrate and have advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, specifically Word, Excel, and Outlook.
Must have solid analytical skills and be proactive in problem solving.
Must be detail oriented, take ownership of work quality, and display an outstanding work ethic.
Must work effectively in a team based environment.
Must have the ability and desire to meet required timelines.
Must be able to coach and mentor new hires effectively.
Must be able to document procedures clearly and succinctly in writing.
Strong mathematical aptitude.
Strong organizational and time management skills.
Ability to communicate well with internal and external customers, verbally and in writing.
Regular and on-time attendance.
Hours regularly exceed 40 hours per week.
Must be willing to participate in an on-call rotation that would involve evening and weekend work approximately once every two months.
Occasional travel by conventional means including aircraft, motor vehicle and the like within the region and to other locations as required up to 25%.

Nice To Haves

Prior training and development experience
Prior experience in designing and developing training materials and SOP documentation
Prior Project Management experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Responsible for ensuring pricing and billing are ready schedules start.
Manage s to ensure routine contractual escalations for customer as it relates to CPI, food, and labor costs are communicated and completed.
Support s RFP activity for new business ventures and menu refresh activity for assigned customer(s).
Responsible for ensuring invoices have been submitted to customer on a timely basis.
Responsible for managing month end closing activities and working with unit finance teams and director on any revenue adjustments and accruals.
Responsible for monitoring the customer’s AR aging to ensure unpaid balances are collected. Additionally, provide risks/opportunities in the collections process to the Director, commercial, and operations finance teams.
Analyze s revenue trends through various reports to look for opportunities to improve revenue accuracy (i.e. revenue per meal, per flight, actual costs versus theoretical costs, zero priced bill-codes report, etc.).
Perform s sensitivity analysis with pricing that may include “what if” analysis and/or review of inputs that drive customer contribution margin.
Responsible for escalating and resolving any deliverables.
Coordinate s and participate s with the accounting finance team in routine accounting and governmental (port authority and tax) audits.
Lead s and manage s projects to improve departmental output through continuous improvement initiatives.
Other duties as assigned.
Responsible proactively assisting with the identification of training and development requirements of the Business Unit.
Presents findings, and works with Business Unit Leader and other personnel to design and implement training and development initiatives that will continuously upgrade the skills and capabilities of personnel in business unit and overall department .
Collaborates with all functional business units within the department to achieve strategic, tactical and project goals.
Provides leadership needed to instill a team-oriented, client-driven, results-driven team.
Coaches and develops employees.
Supervise a process or the day to day operation to include up to 5 direct reports.