Sr Manager FP&A

Authority Brands • Atlanta, GA

5d

About The Position

The Senior Manager, FP&A reports to the SVP of Finance and leads planning, forecasting, revenue, and performance reporting for Authority Brands' 14 franchise brands and portfolio of company-owned locations. The role oversees the end-to-end revenue capture process, including royalty, NAF, and technology fee calculations, and leads FP&A analysts who serve as finance owners of their assigned brand P&Ls. The Senior Manager delivers brand revenue and consolidated P&L reporting to the executive team and partners with brand and operations leaders to drive revenue growth, expense discipline, and margin performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of progressive experience in FP&A or corporate finance.
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of consolidated P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Experience presenting financial results and insights to executive leadership.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Proven ability to partner with and influence brand and operations leaders.
• Experience with ERP and planning tools, such as NetSuite, Hyperion, Power BI, or similar.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or CPA.
• Experience with franchise royalty and fee revenue models.
• Experience in a multi-brand, multi-entity, or PE-backed environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end revenue capture across all brands, ensuring royalty, NAF, and technology fee calculations are complete, accurate, and consistent with franchise agreement terms.
• Review and validate system-generated revenue outputs against franchisee-reported sales, investigate variances, and drive corrective action.
• Establish controls and review cadences over royalty billing to support timely, accurate month-end close and reliable revenue reporting to leadership and the board.
• Oversee preparation and validation of financial inputs to Franchise Disclosure Documents, including Item 19 financial performance representations.
• Lead the annual budget and monthly and quarterly forecasts for all brands and company-owned locations, consolidating them into the enterprise financial plan.
• Analyze revenue, expense, capital expenditure, and other key-driver trends to inform planning assumptions.
• Build and maintain financial models and analyses of financial and operational metrics to evaluate and direct business performance.
• Lead and develop FP&A analysts serving as finance owners and subject matter experts for assigned brand P&Ls.
• Partner with brand and operations leaders to drive expense management and margin performance, including oversight of Coupa approvals for brand spend.
• Oversee analysis of ancillary revenue stream profitability and identify costs eligible for recharge to franchisees.
• Provide P&L and KPI support for the company-owned location portfolio in partnership with Operational Finance.
• Produce and oversee reporting on brand revenue performance and consolidated P&L results against budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Prepare monthly performance presentations and materials for the executive team, highlighting key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Maintain financial review templates and lead monthly business review meetings with brand leadership.
• Support special financial and business studies and partner with other departments on cross-functional analyses.

What This Job Offers

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