Andrew S. Coury
Wrentham,MA
Summary
Results-driven Senior Management Professional with extensive experience in strategic leadership and operational excellence, consistently enabling measurable improvements. Expertise in financial stewardship, project management, and process optimization enhances collaboration with executive leadership. Demonstrated ability to navigate complex challenges while fostering a culture of accountability in dynamic environments. Strong decision-making and communication skills support the development of high-performing teams.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, FP&A
Panera Bread
12.2024 - Current
- Led the completion of Panera's $0.6 billion annual financial plan, coordinating with senior executives and finance leaders.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration during weekly risk and opportunity reviews.
- Implemented new functional forecasting deep dives to standardize best practices, improve accuracy, and broaden overall team knowledge.
- Create executive summaries and board materials with actionable recommendations, distilling complex data into clear insights to guide high-impact decisions.
Senior Manager Comp & Benefits and G&A Planning
Panera Bread
01.2024 - 12.2024
- Led and cultivated a high-performing team of three direct reports, with responsibility for ten cross-functional G&A planners, achieving planning accuracy in the trailing six-month range of 96-99%.
- Guided the company's financial due diligence through restructuring by developing analytical models to inform strategic decision-making, and optimize executive alignment.
- Enhanced Anaplan capabilities and process standardization for financial planning and reporting, while automating workflows to reduce manual effort, eliminate redundancies, and deliver timely insights.
Finance Manager – Dunkin’ Advertising Fund
Dunkin’ Brands (Acquired by Inspire Brands)
01.2022 - 01.2024
- Managed financial planning and reporting across a $0.7 billion revenue Dunkin' Ad Fund, with oversight of two direct reports.
- Collaborated on the design of a comprehensive new company chart of accounts structure, and a new financial system migration plan.
- Enabled strategic alignment by presenting comprehensive monthly financial performance updates to the marketing team and franchisees.
- Played a key role in refining and synchronizing Ad Fund processes across all Inspire Brands' funds.
- Implemented consolidated Designated Market Area (DMA) cohorts to optimize the field marketing forecasting process, align reporting tools, and enable streamlined same-store sales comps, revenue, and expense tracking.
Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A
Dunkin’ Brands (Acquired by Inspire Brands)
04.2019 - 12.2021
- Led the weekly forecasting process for Dunkin and Baskin-Robbins, and presented to finance leadership on the total Inspire Brands weekly call, highlighting revenue and expense variances, and projected monthly EBITDA delivery for both brands.
- Collaborated on integration efforts, including purchase accounting, duplicative costs, and budget geography adjustments.
- Helped maintain financial models for long-range planning to provide key insights critical to forward-looking decision-making, with consideration of external guidance and M&A opportunities, including an $11.3B acquisition by Inspire Brands.
- Conducted in-depth COVID-19 scenario analysis on cash flow, revenue, expenses, workforce planning, and relief efforts.
- Streamlined, robust cash flow model for more agile analysis of total Dunkin' Brands cash to guide decision-making.
- Managed compensation forecasting and analysis, including headcount, incentive-based programs, and payroll of approximately $0.2 billion.
- Spearheaded data validation and reporting design for compensation and benefits migration to Workday.
- Prepared Dunkin’ Brands risks and opportunities, consolidated executive materials, and delivered financial P&L reviews.
- Delivered IT leadership quarterly financial reviews of P&Ls and capital project management reporting.
Financial Analyst II
Akamai Technologies
10.2017 - 03.2019
- Enhanced an existing revenue forecast model for a $0.4B services organization by 15-20% through in-depth analysis of forecasting errors, achieving monthly accuracy rates between 96.4% and 99.9%.
- Developed rotational Financial Analyst through direct oversight of day-to-day responsibilities and one-on-one support.
- Published monthly CFO deck slides, bookings, and revenue flashes, while conducting ad-hoc analyses focusing on product KPIs, flux drivers, account penetration, bookings-to-revenue conversion, and cost-efficiency levers.
- Partnered with product managers to define assumptions and develop adaptable three-year financial models for a new multi-tier portfolio.
Financial Analyst, FP&A
Boston Beer Company (BBC)
07.2016 - 10.2017
- Co-led the Anaplan system implementation team as a model builder, and automated planning, analysis, close, and segment P&Ls.
- Engaged with functional team leaders to ensure $12 million in operating expense savings.
- Conducted OpEx scenario analysis and strategy planning for the CFO based on potential revenue performance ranges.
- Delivered the monthly Sales OpEx presentation to the Chief Sales Officer and summarized the key performance indicators for divisions and brands.
- Consolidated five separate source files into a dynamic master file, while also rolling out new segmented brand and division P&Ls, enhancing company expense visibility for the CFO, management committee, and budget owners.
- Managed Samuel Adams Brewery's financial P&L, conducted breakeven analysis, and advised on retail KPIs and expansion strategies.
Financial Specialist, FP&A
Boston Beer Company (BBC)
01.2015 - 06.2016
- Delivered G&A, sales, and marketing expense forecasts with guidance to leadership on variances, trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Optimized investment decisions through detailed chain Pareto analysis to inform a long-term growth strategy.
- Distilled key insights for sales leaders via budget tracking, wholesaler investment summaries, and the creation of a program recap ROI tool.
- Co-led the SAP GL Migration Project to reduce coding errors, customize access, and improve P&L segmentation accuracy.
- Served as the finance lead in implementing the Cognos reporting system, enhancing local marketing's budget and expense tracking efficiency by reducing turnaround time from over 30 days to under 7 days.
Financial Coordinator, FP&A
Boston Beer Company (BBC)
05.2013 - 12.2014
- Developed a weekly CEO Financial Operations Scorecard including commentary on inventory, shipments, and production trends.
- Held quarterly sales business reviews with division directors and region managers, discussing budget tracking, reallocations, and the new business pipeline.
- Supported the FP&A COGS team on the capital reporting deck, share repurchase tracker, and freight models.
- Served as the finance point person in a project to integrate internal creative services ordering with the external point-of-sale vendor system.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Economics, Spanish
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA05.2013
Skills
- SAP & Oracle
- Hyperion
- Anaplan
- Salesforce
- Power BI
- Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote)
- Financial planning
- Data visualization
- Process optimization
- Budget management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Executive reporting
Timeline
Senior Manager, FP&A
Panera Bread
12.2024 - Current
Senior Manager Comp & Benefits and G&A Planning
Panera Bread
01.2024 - 12.2024
Finance Manager – Dunkin’ Advertising Fund
Dunkin’ Brands (Acquired by Inspire Brands)
01.2022 - 01.2024
Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A
Dunkin’ Brands (Acquired by Inspire Brands)
04.2019 - 12.2021
Financial Analyst II
Akamai Technologies
10.2017 - 03.2019
Financial Analyst, FP&A
Boston Beer Company (BBC)
07.2016 - 10.2017
Financial Specialist, FP&A
Boston Beer Company (BBC)
01.2015 - 06.2016
Financial Coordinator, FP&A
Boston Beer Company (BBC)
05.2013 - 12.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Economics, Spanish
College of the Holy Cross
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