Planning & Operations Program Manager, Employee Experience & Productivity

Summary

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system.

Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

Employee Experience and Productivity (EEP) is part of IS&T and delivers some of the most widely used communication and productivity technology and services across Apple — from tools that enable collaboration to the support teams that keep Apple's workforce running. EEP also leads user experience design and research, and manages the systems behind Apple's original content studios.

About the role

Our team is looking for a program manager to join this dynamic and fast paced environment. This role will provide day-to-day support for the Employee Experience & Productivity team. This position will help drive and own projects related to finance, headcount, operations, financial planning and analysis deliverables. We’re looking for someone that is comfortable managing multi year budgets, able to think critically, and has top-level finance knowledge. This position requires not only complete financial analyses, but also the ability to drive tangible operational results both within and outside of the organization.

Responsibilities

Create and provide regular financial updates (including quarterly business reviews), increased frequency during business planning time

• Provide finance input needed for quarterly forecasts
• Validated analytical and problem solving skills
• Provide in depth support to implement new or enhanced internal systems

• Headcount tracking and reporting, and assisting with headcount justifications
• Play a key role in the continued development of our worldwide capital investments and planning process.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years related finance/accounting experience
• Thorough understanding of and experience with accounting, financial statement analysis, and financial forecast evaluation
• Validated knowledge of Excel and Keynote
• Demonstrated project management experience in a software development/technology business or equivalent experience leading large cross functional project teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience handling multi year budgets
• Experience with Tableau
• Previous experience with operational and capital planning
• Project management

Additional information

• Highly motivated self-starter, with proven track record to think strategically and motivate change across a global organization
• Collaborating with Finance and global partners on budgets, forecast, and resource optimization
• Focused attention to detail with the ability to toggle between macro and micro views
• Excellent attention to detail and strong strategic approach
• Excellent process management, planning, and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Strong organizational skills and detail orientation
• Bachelors degree in accounting, finance, or related field of study preferred