Responsibilities
- Lead and inspire a global team of finance professionals to grow capacity, deepen analytical insights, and enhance reporting.
- Oversee the end-to-end Capex planning process, including annual budget, long-range planning, and ongoing forecasts, ensuring agreement on priorities.
- Partner with Technology and Product to prioritize the Capex portfolio and improve investment allocation within the approved envelope.
- Monitor investment performance against approved business cases and deliver rigorous post-investment analysis
- Lead review of complex business cases (NPV, IRR, payback, and scenario analysis).
- Help measure financial benefits, cost efficiencies, and revenue enablement.
- Support executive level presentations with decision-ready insights.
- Stress test assumptions and identify risks, providing leaders with recommendations.
- Use advanced analytics and GenAI tools to enhance modeling efficiency, scenario planning, and insight generation.
- Lead the annual budgeting, long-range planning, and forecast processes
- Identify trends, risks, and cost optimization opportunities, elevating the quality of insights.
- Analyze the drivers of Technology including variance driver analysis against prior periods, budget, and forecast.
- Lead monthly operating reviews with senior leadership, providing clear, data-driven recommendations.
- Strengthen financial governance across the portfolio, including initiative tracking, adherence to capitalization policies, and disciplined benefit realization monitoring.
- Partner with Accounting to ensure appropriate capitalization treatment, policy compliance, and audit readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 8+ years of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, or related analytical roles, with demonstrated impact in complex, matrixed organizations.
- Experience providing financial planning support to technology teams (i.e. cybersecurity, digital product, software engineering, virtual infrastructure)
- History of translating complex financial and operational data into concise, impactful insights for senior leadership.
- Experience identifying trends, risks, and opportunities that drive revenue growth, margin expansion, cost optimization, and capital allocation decisions.
- Advanced financial modeling expertise, including scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and long-range strategic planning.
- History of making data-informed recommendations even with incomplete information.
- Experience working in cloud-based data environments
- Experience applying automation, advanced analytics, or AI-enabled tools to enhance forecasting, reporting, and decision support capabilities.
- History of overseeing programs end-to-end and delivering outcomes.
- Experience improving scalable solutions across finance.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel required; experience with business intelligence tools and financial systems (e.g., Tableau, Oracle, Hyperion).
