Director Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Summary

The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis provides guidance for cost center management and analysis, capital expenditures and operating expenses analysis, and allocations from Papa John’s enterprise-wide expenditures and investments back to the business units. The role guides planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities in support of business decisions from the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) leader for the technology function. The role uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis of all operational aspects of a company to evaluate the company’s progress toward achieving its goals and to map out future goals and plans. The role considers economic and business trends, review past company performance, and attempt to anticipate obstacles and potential problems, all with an eye toward forecasting a PJI’s future financial results. This role is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and analysis in support of PJI business decisions in alignment with the company strategy.  

Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversee the FP&A organization, partner with Sr Director FP&A and senior leadership team to provide value-added insight into the business  

• Develop and manage company budget and forecast with periodic budgets and plans (e.g., long-range plan, AOP, etc.); variance analysis against forecast and budgets, and work closely with business partners to analyze actual results and identify trends  

• Oversee continuous cost improvement; month end review, including developing insights on financial trends  

• Manage overall cost allocation logic and periodic updates to drivers  

• Present results and investment options to corporate and business unit leadership as part of the portfolio management process  

• Use financial expertise to define key investment metrics to provide comprehensive decision support and prioritization guidance; target performance levels/KPIs; review data visualization dashboards to support investment options and track ongoing investment portfolio performance against pre-determined metrics  

• Support cross-functional teams, as appropriate, to develop financial business cases supporting proposed strategic initiatives and special projects, including financial modeling and analysis  

• Standard management and executive level presentations and reports; provide ROI analysis of enterprise-wide technology and project investments deployed across PJI