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The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted advisor to the business to help guide decision-making through business partner support and innovative and informative analyses. We are looking for forward-thinking, results-oriented individuals that will succeed in a fast-paced environment and thrive in leading teams, and improve processes that will allow the company to scale with growth!
Description
This Manager will be a member of the Global Professional Services F&S team, primarily serving as the Finance Business Partner for the Global Delivery Professional Services organization, which includes the Global Delivery Centers. In addition, this role will focus on Professional Services revenue and be responsible for revenue forecasting processes and analytics. This role will collaborate with Global Delivery leadership, Recruiting, the Professional Services F&S team and Strategy & Operations to drive strategic analyses, ensure alignment across the teams, and report results timely and efficiently.
The nature of the work will include detailed analytic models including capacity modelling, building scalable reporting frameworks and dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, and packaging findings into presentation-ready content for Salesforce executives. The ideal candidate must enjoy working in a dynamic environment, be adept at operating both at a strategic and tactical level.
This role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week in Indianapolis, IN or Atlanta, GA.
Responsibilities
- Partner with and support the Global Delivery Professional Services team to drive optimal financial strategy
- Facilitate decision making on investment strategies, operational efficiency, and resource allocation
- Build the annual financial Plan, quarterly Outlooks, and monthly forecasts aligned to business strategy
- Enhance and maintain an efficient weekly and quarterly revenue forecast process, model, and analytics
- Analyze financial and operational data, distill key trends, assess current and future business risks to produce strategic, actionable insights and be able to deliver key messages and recommendations to senior management
- Design, build and maintain dashboards in Tableau to automate reporting, track KPIs, and monitor business performance
- Drive the development of the Long Range Financial Plan (LRP) for these functions and organizations
- Execute strategic projects, developing a deep understanding of key metrics for the Professional Services businesses and how they translate into financial performance
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis as needed
- Build an inclusive and diverse work environment that promotes teamwork, recognition, mutual respect, constructive feedback, and employee satisfaction
Required Skills / Experience
- BA/BS degree or equivalent and minimum of 5+ years FP&A or relevant work experience. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
- Core foundational FP&A experience: accounting, planning, forecasting, variance analysis
- Track record of identifying opportunities and successfully leading process improvement or other strategic projects
- Ability to deal with a fast moving dynamic environment with high degree of ambiguity and constant change
- Ability to independently address new analytical requests: understand the main question being asked, gather needed data, build models, validate assumptions, perform analyses, and present executive-level summarized results in a compelling manner
- Strong MS Excel, Hyperion, Smartview, Tableau and Google suite, or other financial and data visualization software
- SQL experience is preferred but not required
- Great teammate - thrives in an environment of collaboration; recognizes the appropriate time to lead, question, or step back; able to champion and motivate a team to achieve the desired results
- Sharp attention to details
- Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to learn and grow
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), including the ability to partner with diverse customers to achieve alignment, drive results and present outcomes
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