Financial Planning & Analysis Senior Analyst

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We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

About Salesforce:
We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.
 

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About this position:
The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted advisor to the business to help inform and guide decision making through business partner support and innovative and insightful analyses. We are looking for bright, goal oriented individuals that will succeed in a fast-paced environment and thrive in building and improving processes that will allow the company to scale with growth. The Corporate team runs the Company’s short & long term financial planning processes. As a Senior Financial Analyst (SFA), you will play an integral role assisting the short term planning team. This is a high visibility, high impact role where you will interact with senior leadership on a regular basis.
 

Responsibilities:

* Assist with the monthly consolidated forecast/close process & quarterly earnings process, including ownership of certain close deliverables for the CFO.
* Partner with the broader F&S team to develop operational KPIs, create dashboards, identify trends and build the Company’s financial narrative. 
* Support ad hoc financial & scenario analysis including but not limited to evaluating total Company strategic spend, external financial statement and expense by type trends, and headcount investments.
* Own key deliverables including content for the Company’s Board of Directors’ deck and the financial leadership and training program for Company executives. 
* Support Salesforce’s quarterly external guidance process in partnership with IR by providing insights on key guided metrics and trends. 
* Build expertise on Salesforce’s financial system and partner with F&S business partners and IT on system tactics.
* Drive business operational improvements in close processes and deliverables. 
* Support ad hoc presentations for the CFO & Finance leadership.
* Build & maintain cross functional relationships with the broader F&S team.
* Partner and support broader Corporate F&S workstreams including but not limited to Plan & Outlook, long range scenario planning, executive driven ad hoc requests, etc. 

Required Skills/Experience:

*Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on theValues & Behaviors for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)* 2 - 4+ years of work experience in analytically demanding financial or strategic services roles
* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to explain complex issues in an understandable way
* Ability to multi-task effectively in a fast paced, quickly changing environment
* Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with competing priorities and influence at all levels within the organization
* Highly motivated, detail oriented, self-aware and responsive
* Strong financial analysis, forecasting, m