Financial Coordinator

About the Role

• The Financial Coordinator reports to the Senior Manager, Strategic Finance and supports the Finance team in driving key initiatives forward across Authority Brands.
• This role helps keep priority projects on track by managing timelines, deliverables, and follow-ups across finance and cross-functional stakeholders.
• The Financial Coordinator also serves as a liaison between internal teams on ancillary revenue streams, ensuring technology fees, marketing fees, and other non-royalty charges are appropriately tracked, billed, and reconciled by brand.
• This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career finance professional to build a foundation in financial analysis while gaining broad exposure to a multi-brand franchise organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Finance team in managing key initiatives, maintaining project timelines, tracking action items, and following up with stakeholders to keep deliverables on schedule.
• Prepare meeting materials, status updates, and summaries for finance leadership on the progress of priority initiatives.
• Serve as a liaison between internal teams to ensure ancillary revenue, including technology fees, marketing fees, and other franchisee charges, is accurately tracked, billed, and reconciled by brand.
• Investigate and resolve billing discrepancies in partnership with Accounting, brand teams, and franchise operations.
• Review material and non-recurring expense requests in Coupa to ensure they are appropriately approved in accordance with the Delegation of Authority policy and accurately coded to the correct brand, department, and GL account.
• Monitor Dayforce requests, including new roles, promotions, and compensation changes, to ensure appropriate finance approvals are obtained and align with budget.
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis in support of strategic projects, including data gathering, model support, and summarizing findings for leadership.
• Assist with recurring reporting and administrative tasks for the Finance team, including maintaining trackers, documentation, and shared files.
• Support process improvement efforts to increase accuracy and efficiency across ancillary revenue and team workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 0–2 years of experience in finance, accounting, or a related analytical role; internship experience is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with working knowledge of PowerPoint and Word.
• Solid analytical skills, with the ability to gather, organize, and interpret financial data.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable following up with stakeholders across levels of the organization.