McDonald’s Corporation (McDonald’s) is one of the world’s largest and most recognized fast-food chains, known for its hamburgers, french fries, and name-brand sandwiches such as the Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, and Egg McMuffin, as well as the child-focused Happy Meal.
Supervisor, Financial Planning & Analysis
McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald’s means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.
At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.
Department Overview
McDonalds is a global brand with new technology being deployed each year. This role will help manage the budget/projections/trend of spend for our Global Technology organization and work directly with business partners all over the world. This role resides in a strategic environment and a successful candidate will be both analytically and technically adept. The candidate will communicate to upper management frequently; professionalism is key.
They will need to navigate uncharted situations independently, achieve goals, and provide insightful analysis to drive the business and finance organization forward. Ability to boil-down and de-mystify information to facilitate effective cross-functional discussions is mandatory.
Duties
· Facilitate processes surrounding the long-range plan, annual budget, quarterly forecast, and monthly variance analysis within Global Technology
· Investigate and understand detailed drivers of spending within the Technology business units, and support strategies to manage and report CAPEX, OPEX, and Project costs of over $100 million in spend.
· Design, develop & deliver insightful reports/analyses for distribution within the Technology organization and across the wider organization on an ongoing basis
· Cultivate robust business partnerships with an organization significant in size, complexity, and stature
· Engage in meaningful and relevant interactions with senior leadership (Senior Directors and above)
· Grasp the opportunity of frequent ad hoc analysis and projects, inception through eventual completion
· Correlate large amounts of financial data into meaningful cross-functional business discussions
Qualifications
· Solve problems and resolve conflict through strong and thoughtful analytics
· Thrive and excel in ad-hoc situations
· Ability to communicate effectively with Sr. Leadership and department owners of financial outcomes of business decisions. Ability to tell the Technology Finance story.
· Assess and prioritize large amounts of conflicting data quickly and confidently
· Balance accountability, timeliness, and presentation with equal importance
· Undergraduate degree in Accounting or Finance
· 3+ years of working experience post undergraduate degree
· Cost management and budgetary planning experience
· Strong aptitude with financial systems
· Ability to handle and analyze large amounts of data quickly and efficiently
Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
McDonald’s is looking for an experienced and strong Director of Business Advisory Services and Financial Planning & Analysis to join our team in support of our vision to bring best in class solutions to the enterprise.
Leading a small team with 3-5 direct reports, the ideal candidate will provide strong financial leadership and become a trusted strategic thought partner to the business. The individual will bring experience, energy, and insight to influence and support major business decisions and strategic projects to ensure key financial considerations are well understood, clearly communicated, and closely monitored. Partnering with key functional leaders and corporate finance leaders, the candidate will operate with a focus on innovation, modernization and talent development. The candidate will bridge the gap from strategic intent to financial viability in a very important area of the Company. To ensure this is effectively managed the Director will ensure: strategic priorities and financial resources are aligned; financial implications of proposed projects are understood up-front and as projects evolve; project costs are appropriately tracked and communicated; leadership has recommendations on ways to stay on budget while still achieving key objectives to drive performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of approximately 5-8 professionals
- Lead quarterly forecasts for corporate functions which includes communicating expected financial results for functional and finance leadership, evaluating risks and opportunities
- Build and articulate financial models founded in operational realities
- Build executive and Board level financial communications and lead presentations to and discussions with executive management teams as necessary
- Build positive relationships across functions and project teams which enable open conversations and effective action plans
- Engage with individual initiative owners to understand current and potential projects; help shape project progression while ensuring financial implications are understood and communicated
- Provide financial leadership & analysis to support key strategic investment decisions
- Build and articulate financial models founded in operational realities
- Lead presentations to and discussions with management as necessary
- Build strong processes for budget monitoring, recording and tracking
- Engage with Senior Leadership to build long-term plans for priorities and translating related financial implications to our McDonald’s enterprise
Qualifications
- 10+ years of dynamic experience in fields related to finance & accounting
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Ability to network within a large organization and build trusted partnerships; influence through insight and collaboration
- Strong people leadership and team management skills
- Strong ability to build insightful financial models in Excel coupled with the ability to guide others on how to interpret the results
- Comfort with ambiguity and fluctuating deadlines at times
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, desire to deliver results
- Strong business & financial acumen including, tactical and critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Forward thinking and able to anticipate immediate and long-term implications of potential decisions
Senior Manager, HR Solutions Portfolio
The Senior Manager of HR Solutions Portfolio is tasked with aligning digital HR needs with business objectives, optimizing the HR solutions portfolio, driving digital maturity, and ensuring efficient project implementation of HR technologies. This pivotal role acts as a key liaison between HR Technology teams, business stakeholders, and the HR community, striving to enhance operations, data insights, and user experience. As the main point of contact for various domains, the Senior Manager will oversee project management activities, perform cost-benefit analyses, advocate for the adoption of existing solutions, and guide the deployment of new digital tools while coordinating efforts across diverse parties involved.
Key Responsibilities:
- Align digital HR needs and strategic assessments with overarching business objectives.
- Act as the primary point of contact (POC) for certain domains within the HR solutions portfolio.
- Enhance HR operations by fostering straight-through processing, promoting existing solutions, and streamlining the HR solutions portfolio.
- Serve as a liaison between HR Technology teams and the HR community, advocating for operational excellence and improved user experience.
- Conduct thorough cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments, ensuring the financial viability of HR technology investments.
- Maintain an up-to-date map of all digital solutions within the HR portfolio and promote their effective utilization.
- Lead project management efforts for the implementation and enhancement of HR technologies, providing strong program management support.
- Advocate for Agile methodologies and provide necessary training and support to ensure team proficiency and project success.
- Maintain and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the performance of HR solutions and projects.
Education Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree required; advanced degree (MBA, etc.) preferred.
Related Work Experience:
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience in HR technology, project management, or a related field.
- Strong background in human resource management processes and systems.
- Experience in managing both technology-focused and non-technology-focused projects.
- Proven ability to balance immediate needs with long-term strategic goals to deliver consistent results.
Travel: Limited travel required (approximately 10-20% – Globally).
Skills:
- Proficiency in SCRUM methodology and tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps.
- Experience with HR solutions including Workday, ATS, LMS, Qualtrics, and other solutions like Power Platforms and Enterprise Platforms.
- Proven capability to seamlessly incorporate innovative technologies, enhance HR processes and align them with strategic goals.
- Capacity to manage ambiguity and lead organizational change effectively, navigating complex challenges and implementing HR process improvements.
- Advanced data analysis skills, providing critical insights to support informed executive decision-making.
- Robust program and project management skills to ensure successful delivery.
- Ability to prioritize and adapt to multiple tasks within individual and concurrent projects.
- Strong leadership skills with the capability to manage cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication, writing, and documentation creation skills.
- Effective customer relationship management, with a solid understanding of business needs.
- Experience working in diverse cultural environments.
Skills:
SCRUM, HR Technology, System Integration, Change Management, Data Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Prioritization, Communication, Adaptability, Agile Methodologies, Operational Optimization
Skills:
Stakeholder Management; Prioritization; Adaptability; Human Resources (HR) Technology; Scrum Methodology; Project Management; Systems Integration; Change Management; Data Analysis
Pay Range:
$122,000 – $142,000
Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Senior Manager, Sales – Specialty Retail – Texas
Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better shared future. We strive to provide cutting-edge excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing. As a Senior Sales Manager your responsibilities will include managing all aspects of customer’s businesses including strategic assessment of the business, sales forecasting, conducting regular business reviews, managing senior level relationships, and effectively activating and implementing the beverage strategy. We are looking for people that have a passion for building relationships and are results driven and with a sales focus.
Note – Ideally role will be worked remotely from within Texas (Dallas, Houston or San Antonio). Virtual (home base homed) location from the Central and Southeast US may also be considered.
What You’ll Do for Us
- Manages and leads collaborative business planning with the strategic goals to develop and execute annual business plans, develop key partnership initiatives, category programs to accurately forecast sales volume, revenue, and expenses.
- Conduct regular business reviews with customers to define business needs, issues faced and opportunities to develop viable solutions. Develop ongoing customer relationships with key members of the customer’s organization, re-affirming strategies linked to needs and steward the business, operational goals.
- Ongoing assessment of account business plans including attainment of goals, success of key initiatives, major actions, key support needed, and new product recommendations.
- Develop relationships with all key decision makers, both internal and external.
- Collaborates and fosters relationships with our local bottling partners, senior level buyers, outlet management and distributors to build sales capability and facilitate stewardship discussions.
- Develops direct supply chain strategy and activation of initiatives for driving efficiencies across the Coca-Cola North America Product Supply and Foodservice distributors operations.
- Keeps abreast of competitive activities within the responsible geographies and communicates appropriate activity in a timely manner.
- Collaborates with cross-functional representatives to deliver the full depth and breadth of resources that result in mutual benefits/results.
- Share and collaborate on sales vision and strategic thinking to anticipate future needs and recommend business building ideas that will drive the business.
- Gather and analyze customer specific data (e.g., annual reports, 10K, store sales, store layout, check average, service history and traffic) to understand current economics and state of overall business.
Qualification & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience is required.
- 3+ years of successful sales account management experience.
- Experience with ongoing relationship building and the ability to identifying and addressing customer needs.
- Effective communication skills, technical presentation skills, sales negotiation and closing techniques.
- Proven track record of securing sales of various offerings, working with multiple levels of purchasing tier.
- Proven ability to identify customer needs based on feedback from the customer as well as through identification of opportunities through use of technical knowledge.
- Demonstrated sales lead development and account cultivation.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple priorities without direct supervision.
Location – Virtual (home based) in Texas preferred, may consider Virtual location in Central or SE US
Travel – approximately 25-50%
What We Can Do For You
- Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
- Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.
Skills:
Leadership; Sales Process; Business Planning; Account Management; Customer Relationship Management (CRM); Sales Management; Marketing; Pitch Presentations; Consultative Sales Management; Contracts; Sales Forecasting; Communication; Forecasting Process (Inactive); National Account Sales; Decision Making; Business Development; Teamwork; Negotiation
Pay Range:
$116,500 – $145,800
