Company Overview
Anchor Point Management Group is a diversified national management platform, supporting its businesses across two primary verticals: Restaurants, Food & Beverage and Beauty, Health & Wellness. With over 400 operating locations, the company has grown significantly over the past 30+ years. It looks to aggressively continue that growth alongside its private equity partners through development, acquisitions, and industry-leading operations.
Position Description
The Finance Manager will support the company's Operational Finance function. This is a high impact finance role, reporting directly to senior Finance leadership. The Finance Manager has the demonstrated ability to deliver results, lead via influence, partner cross-functionally, drive consensus and build high-performing teams. This individual is data-centric with the ability to leverage data and analysis to help the organization achieve its strategic and operational goals.
The position will act as a strategic and collaborative business partner with the Presidents and Operations teams of the company's brands. The position provides critical financial thought partnership as well as all financial and operational reporting, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and analysis for the Brand leadership and operating personnel.
Duties & Responsibilities
Ownership of operational finance function
- Advance our strategic initiatives through close partnership and continuous/timely communications with Brand President and Operations team
- Drive FP&A function, including development of budgets, subsequent analysis of performance against them, and related ad-hoc analyses
- Streamline finance processes and stand up repeatable and scalable solutions to enable controllership while shifting the balance of the team's time towards value-added support
- Serve as thought partner to drive action with value-added analytics, recommendations, and execution
- Bring a strategic mindset toward discovering opportunities and identifying new areas of growth or efficiency for our businesses
- Interpret and summarize complex data to help achieve strategic and operational goals, and delivery financial results to all key stakeholders
- Provide support in the preparation of periodic, quarterly and annual earnings, MD&A, and messaging
- Continuous process improvement and refinement
People-first mentality
- Lead via influence, partner cross-functionally, and drive consensus
- Attract, develop, motivate, and retain strong, high-performing finance talent
Qualifications
Education and experience
- Undergraduate degree required
- 6-8+ years of progressive financial experience within the multi-unit industry
Technical skills
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills
- Ability to succinctly interpret data and frame business issues in a straightforward manner to present to Executives
- Strong understanding of business intelligence platforms preferred
- Clear verbal/written communication and presentation skills
- Advanced Excel modeling and PowerPoint skills
Soft skills
- High degree of personal and professional integrity
- Strong internal motivation, intellectual curiosity, logical thinking, independence, and proactive thinking
- Resourceful nature, with strong problem-solving and customer-service orientation
- Strong organizational skills, with ability to work independently and multi-task while thriving in a complex, fast-paced, and deadline-driven environment
- Solid leadership skills with an ability to lead, influence, develop, and motivate a team
- Superb interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to partner well with other team members and interface effectively with all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated success influencing diverse stakeholders and leading teams that include non-direct reports in cross-functional settings