Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

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The ‘F&S’ team (Finance & Strategy) is the global promoter for smart growth, delivering financial, business accountability, insight to optimize decisions, and shareholder success.  The primary role of the Senior Finance Manager is to provide extensive business partnering and financial support to the Americas Go-To-Market Organization. The role will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and decision support for the Americas Go-To-Market Organization. A trusted financial partner, this role will collaborate with multiple functions including the GTM organization, Sales Strategy, Corporate Finance and Accounting. This role will also engage in the annual Long Range Planning cycle for the Americas region in addition to working on key metrics for the team. This role will also help engage with technical reporting requirements for the broader team, using data tools as needed to provide insights to the business. In addition to business partnering, this role will lead cross-functional finance initiatives within the broader Americas Go-To-Market Organization.

Successful candidates for this team have strong financial and analytical skills, excel at extracting insights from data and converting ideas into action. They have exceptional partnership and communication skills and are able to distill complex ideas into executive-facing summaries and presentations. Working in a fast paced environment, successful candidates are able to manage several priorities and deal with ambiguity effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Guide Finance and Strategy support for business leaders within Americas GTM
• Build trusted relationships with key business partners by using business aptitude to draw insightful recommendations
• Assist with Americas GTM consolidation analysis, strategic projects, and associated ad-hoc analyses to support broader GTM organization
• Manage forecasting processes (monthly and quarterly forecasts, scenario modeling)
• Maintain and improve management reporting -  examine financial results, distill and synthesize issues, communicate key messages to senior management while also working with Operations and Accounting to more accurately track financial results
• Work closely with the Functional leads to provide management reporting, accounting and compliance guidance plus ensure alignment of global as well as local operational initiatives
• Assist in analysis and presentation of strategic materials for key management meetings
• Develop repeatable business, operational and financial processes widely understood by all key team members
• Build detailed financial, scenario based models to evaluate investment priorities and evaluate potential alternatives
• Build and maintain cross-functional relationships across Finance functions and with the broader F&S team; connect and lead cross-functional working groups to deliver insights and drive strategic decision making
• Analyze decisions and incorporate key insights from cross-functional teams to ensure that the impact on the Company’s financial documents is appropriately assessed

Required Experience / Skills:

• Bachelor's degree required, Advanced degree preferred
• 8+ years of FP&A or business finance experience, including experience at a global, publicly-traded company
• Experience supporting executive leaders and building successful relationships across all levels of the organization and with diverse stakeholder groups
• Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making skills; proven ability to structure complex problems and develop solutions
• Ability to balance diverse stakeholder groups with consistent methods/processes
• Ability to support and drive major initiatives across a diverse, geographically dispersed, multicultural environment
• Ability to work cross functionally and influence appropriately
• Ability to think strategically and act in a detailed, hands-on manner
• Strong financial modeling experience, attention to d