WHY WENDY’S

When our square shaped burgers made their first sizzle on the scene more than 50 years ago, people knew our approach wasn’t like any other. Same goes for the way we support our employees. Our culture of openness, flexibility, and inclusiveness allows everybody to flourish in their own way. If you’re looking for a career where you can be part of the action as we continue to grow our iconic brand – We got you!
The Wendy’s Technology organization enables fast, frictionless and fun experiences for our millions of customers, franchise community and over 7,000 restaurants worldwide. As Wendy’s continues to invest heavily into technology, the Global Technology FP&A team plays a critical role in the planning, analysis, execution and measuring the return on these investments. The Manager – Global Technology FP&A will partner with the Restaurant & Digital Technology Team to provide thorough financial analysis on new projects, in order to support decision making and provide visibility into all costs and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Manage components of the Annual Operating Plan and maintain detailed financial forecasts. Gather inputs from business partners and maintain running list of risks & opportunities for areas of responsibility. Prepare and present monthly financial reporting and explain significant variances to business partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve our processes for benefit of our team and/or IT partners and recommend prioritization to manager. Conduct planning activities, including savings estimates, and lead projects through to completion with cross functional partners. Examples could include building automated reports in BI tools or leveraging our financial systems to simplify / standardize processes.
• Manage 1 direct report, provide training and development, conduct performance appraisals, and recommend year-end performance ratings.
• Prepare financial analysis related to Restaurant & Digital Technology Innovation projects and partner with Technology leaders to build business cases to support decision making / prioritization. Estimate up-front investments as well multi-year costs and benefits and measure return on investments. Use judgment to identify and resolve technical, operational & organizational problems, with guidance from manager on complex issues.
• Maintain billing file for Technology Fee program, which is used by Accounting to issue quarterly invoices to restaurants across the globe.

Responsibilities

• Manage components of the Annual Operating Plan and maintain detailed financial forecasts. Gather inputs from business partners and maintain running list of risks & opportunities for areas of responsibility. Prepare and present monthly financial reporting and explain significant variances to business partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve our processes for benefit of our team and/or IT partners and recommend prioritization to manager. Conduct planning activities, including savings estimates, and lead projects through to completion with cross functional partners. Examples could include building automated reports in BI tools or leveraging our financial systems to simplify / standardize processes.
• Manage 1 direct report, provide training and development, conduct performance appraisals, and recommend year-end performance ratings.
• Prepare financial analysis related to Restaurant & Digital Technology Innovation projects and partner with Technology leaders to build business cases to support decision making / prioritization. Estimate up-front investments as well multi-year costs and benefits and measure return on investments. Use judgment to identify and resolve technical, operational & organizational problems, with guidance from manager on complex issues.
• Maintain billing file for Technology Fee program, which is used by Accounting to issue quarterly invoices to restaurants across the globe

Our square burgers make us different and so do our benefits! Our restaurant support roles are eligible for a wide array of benefits, including things such as parental leave, free EAP sessions, company 401k match and other great offerings. For more details about our benefits, including an overview of eligibility and terms for certain benefits, please visit our benefits website,www.wendysbenefits.com.*

• NOTE: Wendy’s benefits, bonus, and other incentives are governed by the applicable legal plans and policies and, where appropriate, may be subject to Board approval an individual award agreement terms. Those documents supersede all other information regarding Wendy’s benefits, bonus, and other incentives. Wendy’s retains the right to amend or terminate its plans and policies at its sole discretion, in accordance with applicable plans, policies and laws.