Senior Financial Analyst - Corporate

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Overview of the Role

The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team is responsible for delivering financial predictability and control, business accountability, insight to optimize decisions and resources and shareholder success.

The Corporate F&S team is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Corporate F&S Revenue team focusing on forecasting, metrics and reporting. This role partners closely across F&S, Finance and the Strategy teams. The role requires strong top-line forecasting skills coupled with an internal customer interaction across the broader finance organization. The selected candidate will be responsible for delivering a high degree of forecast accuracy in the company’s revenue forecast and effectively communicating the revenue forecast, topline risks and opportunities
 

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of an accurate revenue forecast

• Topline scenario planning, effectively communicating risks & opportunities

• Analyze actual and forecast variance details to understand drivers

• Identify trends or issues and turn them into actionable recommendations

• Revenue reporting and prepare impactful presentations that deliver messages clearly and engages the audience

• Effectively partner across finance and the business in the composition and delivery of the revenue forecast:

  • Corporate F&S Planning: delivery of the topline forecast to finance leadership

  • Go To Market F&S: Annual Contract Value (ACV) forecast, delivery of revenue & Current Remaining Performance Obligations (cRPO) forecast to Sales leaders  

  • Product F&S: product revenue forecast & insights

  • Controllership (Revenue Recognition & Revenue Accounting): effectively incorporate revenue adjustments into the forecast      

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis or a combination of Financial Planning & Analysis, Revenue Accounting and/or Financial Audit.

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

• Business partnership skills and experience working cross-functionally

• Substantial experience building, maintaining and reviewing complex financial models.

• Excellent executive communication, reporting, and presentations skills.

• Ability to manage through ambiguity and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment.

• Self-starter who can navigate through ambiguity while aligning with business partners.

• Demonstrate use of AI in daily work.

• Willingness to challenge the status quo and implement new processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of software revenue recognition under ASC 606

• Self-starter who can navigate through ambiguity while aligning with business partners. 

• Systems and tools experience—Snowflake, Tableau, Hyperion, Salesforce CRM, Zuora (RevPro), Microsoft Excel, Google Workspace.

• Experience with relational database tools and scripting (e.g. SQL) and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI).

This role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week.

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