Sr Financial Analyst - Business Insights & Strategy
Company Description
McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries and billions of customers served each year. As the global leader in the food service industry, we have a legacy of innovation and hard work that continues to drive us. Today, we are growing with velocity and are focused on modernizing our experiences, not to make a different McDonald’s, but to build a better McDonald’s.
We are moving fast and are adding to our best-in-class team. Joining McDonald's means thinking big every day and preparing for a career that can have impact around the world. We are customer obsessed, committed to being leaders, and believe we are better when we work together. Over the last couple years, we’ve launched home delivery, modernized our restaurant experience through digital enhancements and have so much more to come.
We are dedicated to using our scale for good: good for people, our industry and the planet. From ambitious recycling initiatives and balanced sourcing efforts to our partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities, we are constantly improving. We see every single day as a chance to have a genuine impact on our customers, our people and our partners.
Our new, state-of-the-art headquarters is located in the booming West Loop area in the heart of downtown Chicago. It's set up to be a global hub that cultivates innovation. Take a class at Hamburger University, sample future menu items in our Test Kitchen, and utilize the latest technology to communicate with your team around the globe! Our office helps us connect with each other like never before. Participate in monthly organized events, enjoy massive outdoor spaces, an 8000 square foot gym, and an onsite McDonald's serving international favorites.
Job Description
About the Department:
US Finance is comprised of financial professionals who oversee all financial activity, including accounting, economic policy, and business insights & strategy for McDonald's USA, LLC. The Business Insights & Strategy team within US Finance acts as internal strategy consultants, providing thought leadership and actionable insights to support major Menu, Marketing and other strategic growth initiatives, such as Digital and Delivery. We use a combination of consumer, competitor, and internal data to understand and communicate industry trends as well as our own performance to our key partners. We generate insights to find opportunities to optimize our initiatives and we help bring both tactical and long-term strategies to life across our network of over 14,000 US restaurants.
About the Opportunity:
In this role, you will have an extraordinary opportunity to participate in cross-functional teams accountable for developing the national marketing calendar and strategic growth initiatives. You will provide key insights into profitability trends, opportunities and risks to help craft future marketing programs, analyze the potential viability of initiatives under test, forecast national financial impact, and make recommendations based on the business screens established for the program. You will also evaluate initiative performance across the lifecycle of an initiative and help find opportunities to maximize performance. Other special projects include working to build, communicate, and monitor new processes to be used by the Business Insights & Strategy team. This position will build and maintain relationships with functional disciplines outside of Finance, including Marketing, Menu Strategy, Supply Chain, Operations, and Leadership Franchisees.
Key Responsibilities:
- Evaluation of initiatives and development of business cases, including forecasting initiative sales, guest count, unit movement and cash flow impact
- Assessment of performance of both new and existing initiatives
- Coordinate with leadership on teamwide continuous improvement efforts
- Identification and prioritization of opportunities to maximize performance
- Framing and communicating results of analysis to various business partners, including senior leadership and influential owner / operators
Qualifications
Required Competencies:
- High level of intellectual curiosity
- Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities
- Ability to influence others through storytelling and empathy
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to structure and quickly synthesize large volumes of data to develop actionable insights
- Ability to operate independently and effectively in a team-based environment
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required
- 3 + years Consulting, Business Insights/Research, Strategy or analytical and data intensive environment;
- Exceptional Excel and Powerpoint capabilities
Additional Information
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