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Group Finance Manager, Resource Investment Strategy

Location
Redmond, WA
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Experience
4+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • financial modeling
  • scenario analysis
  • Excel
  • Power BI
  • SQL

Also useful

  • revenue planning
  • management consulting

About the role

Develop a CFO mindset and influence senior leadership to drive expense management and resource allocation decisions - continuously aligning investments and costs with a prioritized engineering product roadmap.

Business and Finance Partnership: Provide strategic leadership to top Engineering and Finance leaders to drive operating leverage through resource allocation and investment optimization by giving visibility to the current resource landscape, analyzing macro-level results, and applying systems thinking to identify and recommend levers to influence decision-making.

Business Health: Drive process excellence while partnering across Engineering and Finance to continuously assess the overall health of the business and understand key drivers to identify opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs. Ensure resources and investments are constantly aligned with business strategy, product engineering roadmaps, and company priorities.

Thought Leadership: Establish and leverage holistic analytical framework and best practices across Finance to spot and anticipate trends and deliver insights to unlock greater efficiencies for resource allocation and investment spend. Embody our culture and values.

Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Financial analysis experience in a high-tech company Revenue Planning and/or Consulting experience Communication & presentation skills Experience in developing complex financial models and scenario analysis, excellent quantitative analysis skills Ability to influence and impact without authority, operate in ambiguity, and solve difficult problems, combined with the ability to prioritize and function well in a dynamic and matrixed environment Interpersonal and cross group collaboration skills.

Ability to drive simplicity within a complex and matrix environment Proficient technical skills (Excel/Power BI and SQL)

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