| Location | Santa Clara, CA |
Corp FP&A Finance Manager, Operating Expenses
The Corporate FP&A Finance Manager (Opex) will be a key member of the Corporate FP&A team, driving global planning & forecasting, automating operational processes, and improving systems/tools that scale for Pure s growth as well as producing analysis & insights for executive reports, finance metrics, and Board of Director presentations.
This role will have high visibility and focus on company-level analytics and modeling, reporting operating expense metrics on a weekly, monthly and quarterly cadence to executive staff. The role will also drive alignment and consistency with other functions such as HR, accounting, operations, and within FP&A, business partner leads who support Sales, Marketing, R&D, G&A and Ops/Support, understanding what they need to support their business partners and providing tools and processes they can leverage.
Job Responsibilities:
Manage planning, reporting, forecasting, and analysis for headcount and operating expenses across the entire company.
Drive business insight and business excellence across all operating and capital expense line items and KPIs, geographies, and business units
Pull together weekly/monthly/quarterly finance metrics published to executive staff, including metrics for hiring, retention, investment allocation, expense run rate*** and operating leverage
Partner closely with HR, accounting, IT and other functions to drive consistency and alignment in business requirements and definitions, reporting hierarchies, integrated systems, and scalable processes (e.g. procure to pay) to enhance and transform reporting and business intelligence
Oversee and manage the continued development of planning, budgeting, forecasting, and modeling tools and processes to improve automation and efficiency
Deliver a business partner financial package that can be leveraged by Corporate FP&A for consolidations as well as the business partner FP&A leads to communicate financial results in a standard format to their business partners on a monthly and quarterly basis.
Perform ad hoc analysis including, but not limited to, headcount bridge, personnel investments including cost per head trending, end-to-end T&E analysis, facilities, depreciation, and other operational metrics.
What You Bring to the Team
BA degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent; MBA a plus.
5-7 Years of progressively complex roles in a financial function with financial planning and analysis experience/understanding, particularly in a Corporate FP&A role.
Strong communication and story-telling skills, particularly to executive management.
Demonstrated track record and success in working with large amounts of data, synthesizing patterns and trends into compelling analysis for executive decision-making
Can define, articulate, and implement FP&A best practices in ambiguous environments
Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, work well under pressure and adapt quickly to change.
Excellent analytical, decision-making, project management, and financial modeling abilities.
Self-motivated curiosity, sense of urgency, ability to pivot seamlessly between big picture and fine level granularity, and relentless focus on outcomes not activity
Ability to partner cross-functionally, through strong relationship building, influencing, negotiating and communication skills, with all levels of management.
Advanced Excel modeling and PowerPoint skills.
Experience with NetSuite and Anaplan software a plus.
MSP NOTES:
* Fully ONSITE at the Santa Clara office
* Initial Assignment length: fixed end date of Jan 29, 2027 but with possibility of extension depending on business need
* No max bill rate - send your best candidates! Max 2 submissions.