Senior Finance (FP&A) Analyst

AMISEQ; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AMISEQ is seeking a Finance Analyst to support Marketing and GTM strategy with strong FP&A discipline. The role focuses on managing operating expenses, capex, and headcount, delivering accurate forecasts and insightful variance analysis.

You will partner with WW Sales Finance, Marketing, and Accounting to produce monthly close, build Opex forecasts, and maintain dashboards in Tableau that executives use to monitor spend by sub-team.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage operating expenses, capex and headcount for budget, forecast and actual
• Prepare monthly/quarterly variance analysis to identify and explain significant variances to budget
• 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

Job description

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 8 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