Senior Director, FP&A and Feasibility - Finance Business Partner

Nando's • DC, DC

5d • $155,000 - $195,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Nando’s is seeking a Senior Director, FP&A and Feasibility to help shape the financial future of its North American restaurant business. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role partners across Restaurant Operations, Commercial, Marketing, Supply Chain, Real Estate, and executive leadership to strengthen enterprise planning, improve business performance, and support a commercially focused finance organization. The position combines detailed financial analysis with strategic business partnership and decision support.

The role owns financial planning for a multi-million-dollar restaurant business, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and monthly results analysis. It develops financial models and recommendations to support operational and strategic decisions across pricing, menu innovation, sales, marketing, technology, restaurant development, and capital allocation. It also builds feasibility models to evaluate new restaurants’ returns on invested capital and aligns underwriting assumptions with Real Estate and Operations.

Success means influencing better business decisions, translating financial and operational data into actions that improve restaurant performance and profitable growth, and serving as a trusted advisor to Finance, Real Estate, and Operations. The position is based at Nando’s Restaurant Support Office in Washington, D.C., with a schedule of five days fully onsite. Travel to regions where Nando’s operates is required to strengthen Finance and Operations ties.

The compensation range is $155,000–$195,000. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance; PTO accrued each pay period; paid sick and safe leave in accordance with applicable laws; a 401(k) plan with up to 4% company match after one year of service; reimbursement for wellness, technology, and meals; and career growth and development opportunities. The first 90 days are described as a mutual onboarding and learning period. Employment is at-will.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis.
• Experience in a business partnership role.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex financial modeling.
• Experience leading budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with business leaders to translate financial and operational data into recommendations that drive business performance and decision-making.
• Experience building executive-level financial presentations and decision-support materials.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and make recommendations based on incomplete data and information.
• Strong project management skills and ability to lead cross-functional planning, budgeting, forecasting, and finance transformation initiatives.
• Experience using technology and AI-enabled tools to enhance business analysis and planning.
• Ability to travel to regions where Nando’s operates.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting multi-unit restaurant, retail, hospitality, or other consumer-facing businesses.
• Understanding of restaurant economics, including labor management, inventory planning, food cost, productivity metrics, and unit-level profitability.
• Feasibility experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic business partner to Restaurant Operations and cross-functional leaders.
• Analyze restaurant-level performance and recommend ways to improve sales, margins, labor productivity, food costs, and profitability.
• Identify business-case needs and provide financial insight and recommendations that improve long-term business performance.
• Develop dynamic financial models supporting strategic and operational decisions, including pricing, menu innovation, sales, marketing campaigns, technology initiatives, new restaurant development, and capital allocation.
• Own financial planning for a multi-million-dollar restaurant business, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and monthly financial results analysis.
• Partner with Operations to translate operational plans into profitable growth.
• Benchmark financial results against the industry to support financial planning.
• Create executive- and board-level presentations with financial analysis and recommendations.
• Model incentive-plan design and validate financial metrics.
• Build financial models to assess new restaurants’ returns on invested capital.
• Partner with Real Estate and Operations to align on key assumptions used in underwriting assessments.
• Travel to regions where Nando’s operates to strengthen ties between Finance and Operations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
• PTO accrued each pay period.
• Paid Sick & Safe Leave in accordance with applicable laws.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match of up to 4% after one year of service.
• Reimbursement for wellness, technology, and meals from Nando’s.
• Career growth and development opportunities within a growing brand.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior