Commercial FP&A Manager

About the role

This role is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future AND is four days onsite hybrid at our Pike & Rose headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic finance partner to several functions within the commercial and marketing organizations, offering financial leadership and support.
• Execute financial planning, including SG&A headcount and key metrics across all revenue and cost areas, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Conduct annual, monthly, and quarterly financial planning processes, including both short-term and long-range planning.
• Conduct variance analysis against plan, identifying risks, opportunities, and actionable insights.
• Develop and maintain advanced financial models and analytical tools to assess performance and inform decision-making.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement, reduce costs, and enhance operational efficiency.

Strategic Analysis & Decision Support

• Provide comprehensive feedback and analysis on financial and operational performance leveraged by leadership to formulate recommendations, emphasizing key revenue drivers and emerging trends.
• Support data-driven decision-making processes to maximize revenue generation and profitability.
• Partner with business leaders to translate long-term strategy into an operational long-range plan.
• Collaborate with business partners to analyze investment requests that will drive future growth, integrating these investments into the long-range plan.
• Develop detailed financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate long-term growth metrics and funding for investment decisions.
• Model and assess performance scenarios to identify risks and opportunities.

Leadership & Influence

• Act as a trusted financial advisor to operational leaders.
• Clearly and effectively communicate financial insights, performance metrics, and assist in formulating strategic recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.
• Support the delivery of cross-functional initiatives from ideation to execution.
• Communicate with stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in financial planning & analysis, corporate finance, or consulting with progressive responsibility and ability to drive performance.
• Hospitality experience or understanding of the franchising business model is a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel with ability to build complex models.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and/or Oracle Smart View is a plus.
• Experience with Tableau and SQL a plus.
• Proven expertise in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience with financial modeling and/or data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Self-motivated to work independently and collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
• Deals well with ambiguity.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $100,000 to $130,000 annually. In addition to the annual salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus based on the terms of Choice's Management Incentive Plan (MIP).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Leave and paid time-off for holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious observance.
• Financial benefits for retirement and health savings.
• Employee recognition programs.
• Discounts at Choice hotels worldwide.

About Choice

Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With 7,500 hotels in 45+ countries and territories, we offer a range of high-quality lodging options in the upper upscale, upper midscale, midscale, extended stay, and economy segments. We’re the hotel company for those who choose to bet on themselves — the striver, the dreamer, the entrepreneur — because that’s who we are, too. At Choice, we are united by the simple belief that tomorrow will be even better than today — for associates, our company, and our franchisees. At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland, at our technology center in Scottsdale, Arizona, and through our associates around the globe, every voice is heard and every idea is listened to, no matter what area of the company they come from. We are united in supporting the entrepreneurial dreams of our thousands of franchise owners, which propels us forward — giving our work at Choice a purpose larger than our business.