Sr. Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Duties & Responsibilities:

Panera is looking for an individual with a strong finance or financial planning background to serve as Sr. Director, Corporate FP&A.  This role will be responsible for supporting strategic decision-making by developing annual financial plans, monthly forecasting, long-range planning, and analyzing performance to ensure alignment with business goals. Personal competencies for success include the ability to master both strategic and operational issues, the ability to handle multiple competing priorities, outstanding teamwork and collaboration skills, excellent communication and relationship skills, a positive "can-do" attitude, good judgment, flexibility, curiosity, and knowing what you don't know.

If you have great problem-solving and quantitative skills, strong attention to detail and the ability to bridge finance and operations, we'd like to hear from you! We will ask you to leverage your talent and experience to contribute meaningfully to our business and culture; and we'll give you the information, tools, and mentors you need to succeed.

Location: Newton, MA

Accountabilities:

• Lead development of annual financial plan across the organization
• Lead FP&A in development and maintenance of monthly forecasts and risks and opportunities
• Create long range plan modeling to support business strategic objectives
• Analyze monthly actuals vs annual plan and previous year; identify opportunities to improve profitability across the organizations
• Partner with business leaders to incorporate strategic objectives into annual planning, forecasts and long-range planning
• Serve as a key finance business partner to our leadership team; perform high impact analyses of business results, identifying trends, variances, and potential opportunities.
• Prepare detailed monthly financial reporting packages and presentations for senior management and parent company
• Lead preparation of Board Materials
• Assist with due diligence analysis and business valuations.
• Lead G&A planning and forecasting across the organization
• Lead efforts to integrate financial planning tools across all FP&A disciplines
• Develop and maintain financial dashboards to track key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Automate reporting processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Oversee and provide leadership direction and coaching to the Corporate FP&A team
• Communicate financial information clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Adapt quickly to changing organizational and team priorities - be ready to quickly jump into intellectually challenging problems facing the broader organization.

Qualifications (Education & Experience):

• An MBA and 7+ years in either a corporate finance or planning role, an accounting firm, investment banking or consulting firm, or a bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of experience.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• High level of demonstrated quantitative and finance skills in educational and professional records.
• Top tier academic credentials and performance
• Proficiency in Excel and other analytical software
• Familiarity with dashboard and data visualization packages
• Personal commitment to excellence and appetite for success
• Great sense of judgment and the humility to ask for advice.
• An attention to detail, a willingness to roll up your sleeves, and an intense drive to "get it right."
• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.

Working Conditions:

• This position is an in-person role in the Boston area

Physical Requirements:

• While performing this job, the incumbent is regularly required to stand, sit, talk hear & use hands and fingers to operate keyboards.

Direct Reports:

• This position will have 3 Direct Reports and a total team of 6.