Finance Director

Description:

McDonald’s is looking for a strong Director of Technology Finance to join our team in support of the Company’s strategic vision to provide best in class technology solutions and support to our global business and franchisee partners.
 

Leading a team of 5-6 individuals, the ideal candidate will provide strong financial leadership across both our Finance and global Technology teams. The individual will bring experience, energy, and insight as they work within teams and across strategic technology project pipelines to ensure key financial considerations are well understood, clearly communicated, and closely monitored.
 

Partnering with key Technology officers, the candidate will bridge the gap from strategic intent to financial viability in a dynamic and growing area of the Company. To ensure this is effectively managed the Director will ensure: strategic priorities and financial resources are aligned; financial implications of proposed projects are understood up-front and as projects evolve; project costs are appropriately tracked and communicated; leadership has recommendations on ways to stay on budget while still achieving key objectives; product costs charged to McDonald’s franchisees are well tracked and understood, and more as outlined below.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of approximately 5-6 professionals
• Build positive relationships across the technology and finance teams which enable open conversations and effective action plans
• Engage with many individual initiative owners to understand current and potential projects; help shape project progression while ensuring financial implications are understood and communicated
• Build and articulate financial models founded in operational realities
• Lead presentations to and discussions with management as necessary
• Build strong processes for budget monitoring, recording and tracking
• Partner with global subsidiaries to evaluate and communicate impact to their businesses, including franchisee impact
• Engage with Senior Leadership to build long-term plans for the growth of our technology footprint and related financial implications to both McDonald’s and our franchisees.
   

Qualifications
 

• 10+ years of dynamic experience in fields related to finance & accounting
• Ability to network within a large organization and build trusted partnerships; influence through insight and collaboration
• Strong ability to build insightful financial models in Excel coupled with the ability to guide others how to interpret the results
• Comfort with ambiguity and fluctuating deadlines at times (depending on the project and its status)
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, desire to deliver results
• Strong business & financial acumen including, tactical and critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Forward thinking and able to anticipate immediate and long-term implications of potential decisions; Ability to identify dependencies across multiple initiatives