Accelerate to Leadership Post-Graduate Program 2022 - Financial Associate Analyst, Investments Team - HQ
Program Overview
Aramark’s Accelerate to Leadership (A2L) Program offers early career talent valuable work experience, mentorship from industry leaders, and professional training across a variety of environments and business areas. As a year-long development and training program designed for recent college graduates, A2L provides you with the resources you need to unleash your full potential and launch an accelerated career path at Aramark.
Selected candidates will have the opportunity to take on leadership roles within Aramark while participating in structured program activities and developmental exercises tailored to each candidate’s career track. For the thousands of students and recent grads that call Aramark home, we provide a place to grow, advance, and impact lives across a variety of exciting industries and locations.
Aramark’s A2L Program is committed to fostering communities rooted in service, inclusion, and shared prosperity, empowering all individuals to make an impact.
Corporate Functions Career Track
The extensive scale of our business and a variety of roles offer you endless ways to grow. At Aramark, we thrive on building cross-functional relationships, which means you’ll enjoy opportunities that encourage you to explore different functions and industries. Whether you’re interested in finance, marketing, human resources, information technology, or another career area, the Corporate Functions Career Track will empower you to pursue a business-oriented path and put you on a fast-track toward success.
As an A2L Financial Associate Analyst, your responsibilities may include assisting with the completion of reports, research, and attendance in meetings and daily duties to support your designated functional team. Special projects and other tasks may be assigned or requested. You will often work within a corporate setting which requires high professionalism and autonomy to thrive within the functional career track to meet the demands of the company. May require travel. Potential to be remote.
This role will support our investments team and get broad exposure to our business and processes. The investments team support the strategy, modeling and analysis of new and existing client contracts including pricing, capital investments, PL and discounted cash flows. The goal of this role is to progress into a finance manager in one of our field locations or an analyst on one of our support team.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Pull data from systems to streamline modeling process
- Coordinate the development, analysis, and review of new business, retention, and extension financial models ensuring compliance to business standards, terms and conditions
- Work closely with Regional Teams to align proposed operating plans with the underlying financial model
- Assist business development as needed in identifying financial revenue and profit sharing structures that best align to client and ARAMARK expectations
- Be able to identify accounts within the ARAMARK portfolio that most closely resemble new business targets.
- Special projects and analysis as assigned by the VP Finance and Director of Investments
- Capital Projection and Actuals ensuring spend by type is accurate while incorporating historical trends
- Calculation and administration of Director of Business Development Compensation Plans
- Assist in the projection and reporting of Overhead Components
What Makes You Right for This Role
- Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Accounting or Finance. (Must graduate between December 2020 – August 2022 to be eligible for the 2022 A2L Program)
- There are two start dates for the 2022 Program: April and July. All degree requirements must be completed prior to the start date of the program (including any final internship requirements).
- Strong organizational and time management skills required.
- Leadership skills, inclusive of supervisory responsibilities, team lead in a club/organization, and/or project management.
- The ability to communicate in an appropriate, clear, and concise manner with customers, clients, employees and leadership.
- Dynamic working skills to handle change and ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
- Cost control, budget responsibilities or inventory management experience desired.
- Ability to work flexible hours, which may include nights, weekends or holidays according to business need.
- Ability / willingness to relocate according to program or business needs.
- Valid driver’s license preferred.
- Experience with and knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by Aramark for this position now or in the future.
What’s in It for You
- Exposure to a fast-paced, professional, and encouraging culture at the heart of culinary innovation
- A chance to work with industry leaders at a Fortune 200 company
- High level of access to supervisors, mentors, and significant feedback throughout the program
- Becoming part of an international team with a heightened focus on service, hospitality, inclusion, and sustainability
- Cross-functional collaboration and experience across teams and departments
- A premiere post-graduate program designed to place you on a fast track towards a managerial role, while developing you to become a future leader at Aramark
- Special discounted prices at exclusive Aramark properties and access to numerous other discounts at participating retailers
- Full benefit bundle, including: Medical, Dental, & Vision coverage, Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account, Life & Accident Insurance, 401K, Employee Assistance Program, Holidays & Paid Time Off, Pet Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, and Commuter Connection