Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

Our VP, FP&A is a strategic partner and a critical enterprise leader who shapes how the business plans, allocates capital, measures performance, and makes decisions. This role combines deep financial expertise with strong executive presence, business acumen, and the ability to influence across a complex, franchise system.

As we shift toward a Product Operating Model, this leader will modernize FP&A into a proactive, insight-driven, technology-enabled function. They will help guide the business through this evolution, bringing structure, clarity, challenge, and strategic framing to elevate financial maturity across the organization.

The VP, FP&A must be both a relationship-builder and a systems thinker — equally comfortable diving into models, simplifying complexity, coaching a tactical FP&A team, and advising senior leaders with confidence and credibility.

A DAY IN THE LIFE CFO Partnership & Executive Influence

• Serve as trusted advisor to the CFO, providing structure, insight, guidance, and challenge on key decisions.
• Strengthen the CFO’s influence by preparing high-quality narratives, decision frameworks, and financial storytelling for the Executive.
• Bring clarity to ambiguity — shaping options, risks, and trade-offs in a way that enables confident decision-making.
• Uplift FP&A capability and bring discipline to planning, forecasting, scenario thinking, and enterprise prioritization.

Modernize FP&A for a Product Operating Model

• Translate traditional FP&A into a future-state model aligned with product planning, value streams, capacity-based resourcing, and multi-quarter bets.
• Align financial rhythms with product cycles, investment governance, and product portfolio management.
• Build FP&A frameworks that support experimentation, iterative planning, and benefit realization.

Enterprise Planning & Forecasting Leadership

• Lead the company’s planning cycles: annual plan, rolling forecast, and long-term model.
• Ensure assumptions, targets, and resource allocations align with strategy and enterprise priorities.
• Elevate forecasting accuracy and enforce strong financial discipline across functions and brands.

Performance Management & Decision Support

• Build standardized KPIs, dashboards, and reporting that unify financial and operational performance.
• Run monthly and quarterly business reviews with a focus on insight, action, and accountability.
• Provide functional and brand leaders with high-quality decision support, scenario analysis, and commercial insight.
• Connect franchisor, brand, and franchise partner economics into a clear view of system-wide value creation.

Investment Governance & Capital Allocation

• Operate the investment governance framework: ROI, payback, prioritization, and benefit realization.
• Support the CFO in modeling and communicating enterprise value, including key drivers and risk factors.
• Ensure investment decisions are aligned with strategic priorities and supported by clear financial logic.

FP&A Technology, Systems & Data Modernization

• Modernize FP&A processes through improved systems, automation, and real-time insight (Cube, Net Suite, Tableau).
• Strengthen data flows to eliminate manual overhead and improve the accuracy and speed of business insights.
• Ensure the Finance team remains effective during the transition by supporting Excel- and Sheets-based processes while building toward a more automated future state.

Leadership, Culture & Team Development

• Lead, coach, and elevate a high-performing FP&A team.
• Build a culture of clarity, curiosity, accountability, and cross-functional partnership.
• Increase the commercial, analytical, and business-partnering capability of FP&A professionals.
• Model behaviors aligned with the Product Operating Model: transparency, collaboration, system thinking, and customer obsession.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE

• Proven experience leading FP&A in complex, multi-stakeholder, or high-growth environments, with accountability for forecasting, planning, analysis, and decision support.
• Demonstrated success as a strategic partner to a CFO or senior executive, providing backbone support, structured thinking, and trusted challenge.
• Strong…