Sr Analyst - Global Technology FP&A

The Wendy's Company•Columbus, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Global Technology FP&A team plays a key role in managing the Company’s $100M+ Information Technology budget through financial analysis and close business partnership with the Information Technology Teams in addition to the Accounting and FP&A teams. The Sr Analyst - Global Technology FP&A will report directly to the Manager – Global Technology FP&A. This role includes financial analysis / budgeting / forecasting responsibilities in addition to some accounting responsibilities and coordination with the Accounting team to ensure all IT spend is accounted for properly.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Business Administration (Accounting & Finance majors) or, Economics required.
2-3 years experience in FP&A, financial analysis or in an accounting position with large organization.
Demonstrated knowledge of Accounting principles and financial analysis, budgeting & forecasting techniques.
Strong communication and PowerPoint skills necessary to effectively interpret results and communicate to IT business partners
Creates effective partnerships & relationships as well as the ability to align others to achieve business outcomes
Professional experience effectively operating in a complex business environment with learning agility to rapidly understand and apply new concepts
Strong excel skills to build financial models and analysis

Nice To Haves

Experience with FinOps processes for cloud compute spend forecasting a plus.
Knowledge in Accounting for cloud compute arrangements a plus.

Responsibilities

Assisting as departmental finance business partner by providing key IT project financial support including variance analysis, identify risk & opportunities, review and classification of IT spend and internal/external labor for proper accounting treatment according to our capitalization rules along with working knowledge of cloud computing arrangements (CCA).
Analyze key operational metrics and monthly financial results; partner with IT team to explain trends and variances from budget. Prepare monthly presentations with analysis results that will be presented to Technology Leadership Team.
Support the Company’s annual budget and quarterly forecast process by working closely with IT business partners to prepare budget/forecast inputs including capex/depreciation, restaurant level IT expenditures, Franchise support expenses and G&A
Provide support to the IT teams on a day to day basis by assisting with coding of invoices and purchase orders as needed. Prepare monthly and quarterly financial inputs for Accounting including monthly IT expenditures accruals, quarterly Fixed Asset accruals, reconciling the fixed asset accounts, placing assets into service. Coordinate the monthly processing of contractor invoices from IT supervisors and submitting to A/P for processing. Prepare internal capital labor analysis for IT projects on a quarterly basis & journal entry.
Play a lead role in Continuous Improvement projects, which includes proactively identifying and implementing opportunities to streamline work and leverage technology wherever possible to reduce manual efforts.
Perform special projects as assigned including ad hoc analysis and requests from management