Director, Data Foundation and Automation

Meta is seeking a Director of Finance Data Foundation and Automation to spearhead our data and tooling strategy. This key role will harness cutting-edge technologies to revolutionize Meta's core Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes, driving enhanced business insights and operational efficiency. The successful candidate will craft and execute a multi-year technology roadmap, leveraging state-of-the-art AI and ML technologies to transform financial processes and propel business growth.

Successful candidates for this position will have strong knowledge of financial systems, have a bias toward action, and know how to balance getting the details right while still moving fast. This role will be responsible for building out the large-scale finance systems architecture and lead cross-functional projects for the Finance team. You will gain invaluable experience in a position that offers significant responsibility and interaction with finance and cross-functional partners as well as considerable opportunity to have a large impact within a data driven Finance organization. Our ideal candidate is a well-rounded top performer who can be a key contributor in a high-energy, growth, and unstructured environment.Director, Data Foundation and Automation Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Data Analysts, Business Analysts and a Technical Project Manager
• Develop a deep understanding of core FP&A planning principles, processes and deliverables such as budgeting/forecasting, accruals and close, variance analysis, approvals, and reporting
• Gather business requirements from across the Finance Org and project manage engineering team to build finance solutions
• Partner with IT leadership to develop and execute FP&A tooling strategy
• Work with engineering and finance business partners to shape and drive data infrastructure design and innovative system architecture, including data warehousing, reporting, and analytics platform
• Drive automation vision and roadmap for FP&A across different processes by identifying improvement opportunities and driving alignment with key stakeholders
• Collaborate with business partners to understand their analytical needs and develop solutions to address them
• Manage large-scale finance systems implementation projects (Oracle, EPM, Hive, Tableau)
• Communicate technical issues with business partners and business needs to technical partners
• Drive process improvements by partnering with up-stream process owners and enhance current tools/systems related to financial management
• Help define and implement scalable financial processes related to month-end and quarter-end close, including accruals and reporting

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics or a related field
• 10+ years of relevant experience in field of finance transformation and system implementation
• Experience implementing tooling solutions for FP&A / Finance
• Attention to detail with an understanding of the big picture - experience creating a vision and influence others to align to that vision
• Finance experience with an emphasis on financial systems and databases
• Experienced with data visualization tools such as Tableau and demonstrated knowledge to learn new tools and techniques
• Experienced in communicating with a wide range of cross functional and internal audience with experience distilling complex concepts and analysis into concise actionable conclusions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced with SQL, Python, R, and/or other data analytics tools
• Experience in applicable accounting concepts and financial planning

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