Overview

Job Location:
Atlanta Support Center

As Inspire Brands transforms into a dominant multi-brand global restaurant company, the development of a mature Shared Services organization is critical to our success. This exciting role will provide essential Financial Planning & Analysis support with a specific focus on headcount planning, reporting, and analytics for the company. This highly technical role will involve not only financial planning activities such as executing annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly reporting, but also delivering insights into workforce trends, costs, and key drivers, and ensuring that leaders across the enterprise have the headcount data and analysis needed for informed decision-making. In this position, you will serve as a key Finance Business Partner, providing actionable insights related to headcount planning, staffing needs, and workforce efficiency. Your support will be instrumental in helping leaders optimize their teams and resources. You will play a critical role in ensuring that the right workforce strategies are in place to enable the organization to meet its objectives. As Inspire Brands continues to grow and evolve, those with a strong analytical mindset, a passion for workforce planning, and an appetite for a steep learning curve will thrive in this dynamic and fast-paced environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Business partnering: Partner closely with Finance leaders to develop a deep understanding of headcount activities within their business organizations and work closely with adjacent HR business partners to support the accurate and timely tracking and on-going management of headcount across the enterprise.

• Budgeting and forecasting: Manage the collection of relevant inputs and execution of annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes, partnering with Finance and HR business partners to ensure accurate headcount projections are captured and managed, aligning staffing needs with financial goals, and the results of the process are clearly communicated.

• Monthly analyses: Manage and review completion of monthly variance analyses for headcount related costs, including salaries, benefits, and workforce efficiency. Provide explanations for material variances, ensuring that insights are shared for use in monthly business reviews and help identify trends and areas for improvement.

• Ad-hoc analyses: Support strategic decision-making by responding to Finance leadership requests and delivering actionable insights to improve business performance and identify efficiency opportunities. Collaborate with HR business partners and Finance teams to develop scenario planning, including the building robust financial models and preparing clear, business-oriented narratives.

• Project Leadership: Lead the Workforce Planning Tool validation, ensuring timely delivery, conducting appropriate testing, and driving the design and implementation of best-in-class planning tools to enhance planning accuracy. Leverage Workday data within the headcount forecasting process, with a strong focus on data integrity. Partner with Finance to reconcile cost center, brand code, and location details, supporting the management of high-quality process drivers.

• Process improvement: Continuously evaluate and propose improvements to headcount planning and reporting processes. Identify efficiencies in data collection and analysis to provide more time for strategic business partnership and decision support.

• Team performance: Support the management and execution of a high-caliber team properly aligned with the growth of the business; manage the daily activities and the career development of team members.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum: 4+yr degree Finance, Accounting or related field Preferred: Masters Degree in Business, Finance or Accounting

EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION

Minimum: 5+ years experience in Planning & Analysis

Minimum: 1+ years of experience in Headcount Analysis

Preferred: 1+ years of Multi-brand corporate or Shared Services experience

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS or ABILITIES

• Comfort with ambiguity and tolerance for a dynamic set of tasks and priorities

• Strong track record as a proven team player

• Excellent analytical and communication skills

• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word

• Strong finance, technical, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to manage time and multiple projects, often with time constraints

• Strongly preferred: Experience with Enterprise Planning and Reporting software such as Oracle Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Financial Management, including use of SmartView

• Strongly preferred: Experience with Human Capital management tools, including Workday and Oracle Workforce Planning

• Strongly preferred: Experience with Business Intelligence analysis and presentation tools, including Power BI and SharePoint.

DIRECT REPORTS

Analyst, Enterprise Headcount Management

 

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.

We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.