Sr. Manager – Strategic Finance – Infrastructure

Sr. Manager – Strategic Finance – Infrastructure

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND a minimum of 8 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with infrastructure engineering leaders on identifying new infra efficiency initiatives, scoping these out and getting them prioritized/resourced
• Sizing financial and non-financial impact of existing major projects and transformation initiatives
• Understanding how infra engineering HC is allocated (to what initiatives) and ensuring they are allocated to highest ROI initiatives; make recommendations on initiative portfolio and reallocation of resources where necessary
• Design and set targets against true north and signpost metrics for the infra team; performance manage against a subset
• Track impact of initiatives against key metrics, both individually and in aggregate
• Validate incremental HC asks
• Support story telling of infra strategy in exec documents
• Identify and get prioritized projects to improve the operating model within infra, and between infra and other eng teams
• Identifies new opportunities for growth within scope of responsibility and adjacent areas and drives strategy development with business partners.
• Supports team members in operationalizing ideas and drives the development of plans for execution.
• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.
• Leverages insights, data, and internal/external trends to develop narratives to influence stakeholders across all levels of the business.
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.
• Oversees team responsible for supporting performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating models and forecasts.
• Oversees the development of hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.
• Ensures resources are available for team members to access data they need to execute ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address business questions.
• Coaches team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Excel modeling skills and competency in Word and PowerPoint
• Diligent, highly accurate with extreme attention to detail, and exceptional organizational skills
• Leader with strong interpersonal skills, influence capability and social intelligence
• Masterful written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstration of critical thinking – ability to question the output of a financial model and consider options for improvement
• Proactive, results oriented, with a can-do attitude and strict attention to detail in meeting critical deadlines
• A minimum of 3 years of people management experience of experience in the technology industry.