Sr. Manager, Finance Business Partner

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Finance

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The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted adviser to the business to help guide decision-making through business partner support and innovative and informative analyses. We are looking for forward-thinking, results-oriented individuals that will succeed in a fast-paced environment and thrive in leading teams, and improve processes that will allow the company to scale with growth!

 

Description

This role will be supporting the CFO organization and will be responsible for long range planning (LRP), annual planning, quarterly forecasting, and monthly close cycles, as well as ad hoc analyses and projects. You will serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and her direct reports, providing financial insights, reporting, and strategic guidance. You will play a crucial role in driving business decisions by leveraging data, analytics, and forecasting to enhance financial performance. You will also partner with peers across Finance in Controllership, Revenue Operations, Treasury and Tax - managing relationships and budgets large and small.  This position requires a strong background in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), excellent business partnering skills, and the ability to communicate financial insights concisely and effectively.

 

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and manage interdependencies on other company processes to meet work deadlines

• Build trusted relationships with key business partners at the top and bottom of the organization, establishing reputation and gaining an understanding of relevant business drivers

• Proactively drive operational excellence, transformation, and process improvement

• Own ad hoc requests from business partners, F&S teams and other stakeholders to facilitate strategic decision making and resource allocation

• Partner closely with the CFO and senior finance leadership to provide financial insights and strategic recommendations

• Partner with the Finance workforce planning team to create and drive new headcount planning mechanism using Workday Adaptive Planning

• Partner with F&S peers to build out standardized reporting and forecasting methodology, including working cross functionally within finance to apply best practices

• Drive month-end close processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of financial results

• Develop and maintain financial models to support decision-making and scenario planning

• Leverage Tableau and other analytical tools to enhance reporting and visualization of financial data

Required Skills / Experience

• BA/BS degree / equivalent and minimum of 8+ years FP&A or relevant work experience.  Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

• Core foundational FP&A experience: accounting, planning, forecasting, variance analysis

• Track record of identifying opportunities and successfully leading process improvement or other strategic projects

• Ability to deal with a fast moving dynamic environment with high degree of ambiguity and constant change

• Ability to independently address new analytical requests: understand the main question being asked, capture needed data, build models, validate assumptions, perform analyses, and present executive-level summarized results in a compelling manner

• Strong MS Excel, Hyperion, Smartview, Tableau and Google suite, or other financial and data visualization software

• Phenomenal teammate - thrives in an environment of collaboration; recogni