Sr Finance Manager

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking a Sr Finance Manager to manage Zayo's analysis & governance programs to support, guide and monitor operations expenses and cross transformation initiatives across the enterprise. Our Sr Finance Manager serves as the driver for reporting solutions and ensuring that financial data is defined and managed to facilitate investment decisions. You'll provide independent, objective, reliable, valued and timely assurance regarding the effectiveness of analysis, governance, and internal processes that mitigate current and emerging risks and help optimize the internal controls ecosystem.

*We're open to this position working remotely within the United States.
 

Responsibilities:

• Assist in building analysis framework and apparatus for categorical expenses

• Build and maintain strong business partnerships across the enterprise to optimize Network Expenses

• Own the governance of assigned Network Expenses

• Ownership and leadership of assigned Network Expenses initiatives across the enterprise

• Partner closely with the business and PMO to ensure work-streams stay on track and deliver value

• Coordinate communication, planning, analysis and reporting 

• Execute the optimization and processing functions, identify risks and opportunities

• Interpret internal and external business issues and recommends best practices

• Solve complex problems takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions

Business Impact:

• Role operates and impacts at the Network Expense level 

• Impacts through exercising control over resources, providing input into policy formulation and planning

• Influence and lead other cross-functional team members outside of the span of control

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by department objectives

Leadership Focus:

• Has responsibility for implementation of the Network Expense strategy 

• Leads teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

Communications & Influence:

• Establishes collaborative relationships across the business and with external organizations as required by the role

• Influences perspectives and actions, while providing counsel and insights to peers and leaders within and across the Sub-function

• Creates alignment, drives collaboration and partnerships across the Network Expenses they are accountable for and more broadly across other Zayo Sub-Functions

• Communicates complex concepts, anticipates potential objections and influences others to adopt a different point of view

• May lead functional teams or projects

Problem Solving & Decision Making:

• Decisions and actions taken related to products, process improvement, innovative service and operation have cost impact on the Network Expenses

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses analytical thinking, tools and judgement it identify innovative solutions

Knowledge / Business Acumen (Business / Technical / Industry):

• Requires depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized area and general knowledge of related areas to apply knowledge of how own area of responsibility integrates with other sub-functions as well as business and commercial expertise to provide input into how Zayo can differentiate itself from competition

• Anticipates and influences internal/external business. People, industry and environmental factors that have an impact on their area of accountability