Senior Manager, FP&A

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The Senior Manager of FP&A role is to lead the Global Insights Business UnitFinance team with the mission to strategically influence business decisions, improve processes and optimize partnerships, performance, margin and growth through leveraging data and analytics. This role will act as a key business partner and will be integral with the Chief Growth Officer as well as other Senior Operational Executives on a wide range of topics, including headcount planning, pipeline/forecasting and long-range operational planning. You are an exceptional communicator, turning cold hard numbers into relatable business insights, driving action and business outcomes. You are both a doer and a strategist, understanding when it's time to direct your team and when it's time to roll up your sleeves and dive into the weeds.  You embrace ambiguity, forecasting challenges and planning for them. You create order from chaos, and execute on the vision of the company. You know what a services organization needs in order to grow, and which metrics matter and which ones are noise. You partner with the business to understand the goals of each business unit, and guide strategy to maximize business value.  The ideal candidate must have a demonstrated ability to build relationships, influence leaders, think strategically, and provide excellent customer service and strong communication skills. 

Responsibilities

• Drive forward-looking financial analytics to drive operational action that achieve business goals by partnering with Insights Global Sales Leader and other Insights Sales and Operations senior leadership  
• Own standardization, process improvement, and best practice implementation across Global finance  
• Drive continuous improvement of business decision- making and investment optimization, showing predictive sales metrics  
• Understanding SaaS KPIs such as ARR, Retention and Replacement rates, New Business Bookings, Project profitability 
• Ensure that important operating KPIs such utilization rates are accurately being tracked and help with forecasting 
• Establish tools and financial frameworks for optimizing business decision-making within Salesforce and Power BI  
• Proactively provide future-forward strategic decision support through insightful, operational recommendations 
• Own cost of revenue across all regions 
• Build and develop a high-performing team 
• Establish a best-in-class operational finance team through talent management and development 


• Strategic Business Partner  
• Facilitate cross-functional communication and teamwork to understand all aspects of the operating performance, income drivers, unusual items and industry issues that might impact the platforms 
• Support all FP&A needs of the platforms, including analytics to focus the businesses on their key financial levers that drive performance and straightforward decision support tools that provide actionable insights 
• Perform regular industry benchmarking to inform business strategies and provide context to performance 
• Effectively communicate the performance, challenges and opportunities facing the platforms 
• Provide essential business insights while minimizing the operating team’s reporting time commitment  
• Monthly/Quarterly Reporting 
• Responsible for Op Review reporting (monthly) , ensuring clear linkage with the key drivers of performance, the budgets and the business incentive targets 
• Assist with quarterly earning call prep and compilation of materials. 
• Ability to consolidate multi-currency entities globally and experience of creating automated reporting via systematic means 
• Budgeting & Forecasting 
• Organize monthly review package including key financial metrics and performance indicators.  
• Responsible for the design and execution of all forecasting processes and models 
• Identify and execute on opportunities to simplify and enhance the current processes and models  
• Analyze the business to identify trends in the business; recommend and implement specific corrective actions when warranted. 
• Support development of 3-year Strategic Plan, Annual Operating Plan, and Quarterly Review. 
• Lead monthly forecast process, providing periodic updates  
• Manage and/or assist with special projects on group wide initiatives, process simplification and specific projects as requested. 
• Support Key Business Initiatives 
• Establish strong controls within the team and ensure data accuracy 
• Work closel