Job Description:
The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team within *** is a small high energy team providing finance partnership to business leaders across all functions. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a high impact team in a rapidly growing organization. We provide analysis to support strategic decisions, conduct financial reviews of a wide range of business issues and manage financial processes such as planning, forecasting, reporting and tracking performance.
We are seeking a highly motivated individual with exceptional analytical skills to join us as a Finance Analyst supporting Marketing and GTM strategy. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, highly analytical, organized, and have considerable experience managing and forecasting operating expense, compiling and analyzing a variety of metrics.
Your Role
- Manage operating expenses, capex and headcount for budget, forecast and actual
- Prepare monthly/quarterly variance analysis to identify and explain significant variances to budget
- Work closely with Senior Director, WW Sales Finance to provide business partnership support
- Develop detailed financial forecasts incorporating historic, trended and current business information
- Publish monthly and quarterly reports to executives and internally
- Collaborate with the Accounting team to prepare journal entries and accruals as part of the monthly close process
- Partner with Marketing to build short-term and long-term Opex forecasts and drive solid operating cadence and financial discipline across all sub-teams
- Overseeing the creation and approval for purchase orders
- Help maintain and update designs when needed in Tableau dashboards to track spending each week for each sub team and providing Executives with live and insightful results
- Participation in Ad hoc projects and financial analysis to support key business decisions, as needed.
What You'll Bring
- BA/BS in Finance or Accounting with at least 7 years of FP&A related experience; MBA and/or experience in Marketing/GTM strategy finance highly preferred
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, and logical functions
- Experience with ERP/Planning Systems (Adaptive Planning/NetSuite is a plus)
- Experience with Coupa/Salesforce/Tableau/Google docs a plus
- Unparalleled sense of ownership and accountability
- Ability to think creatively and quickly with minimal direction and information
- Strong business and analytical skills; ability to multi-task, stay organized and prioritize deadlines in a continually evolving environment
- Strong relationship building and communication skills, experience and desire to work cross-functionally and be a contributing team member
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and juggle competing priorities
- Fluent understanding of journal entries (debit/credit) and accounting rules
- Experience working in a high growth IT systems/networking organization preferred
- Ability to work PST hours