Budget Lead - Wallet & Payments - Strategy & Planning

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Apple is seeking a highly proficient Budget Lead to support the Wallet & Payments Strategy organization. This role will be responsible for finance-related activities including managing and forecasting operation expenses requiring a deep understanding of business as well as positive relationships with key partners. Responsibilities include reconciling multiple data universes, identifying discrepancies, managing solutions, supporting other critical deliverables including quarter-end deep-dive analytics. This role will also collaborate cross-functionally across a globally distributed group to meet the data needs of the business and translate those needs into analytical requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years meaningful experience in Finance, Accounting, or Budgeting.
• Proven understanding of core finance and accounting principles, including accruals, P&Ls, forecasting, fiscal planning, budgeting and Procurement-to-Pay (P2P) processes.
• Experience analyzing, reconciling, and interpreting large, complex data sets to identify patterns, trends and insights using Excel.
• Strong financial competence; FP&A experience, Excel and SAP knowledge.
• Proficient with big data systems and tools and Tableau dashboard design, development and publishing.
• Ability to work with large amounts of data and see the ‘bigger picture’.
• Critical thinking: able to look at numbers, trends, and data and come to new conclusions based on the findings.
• Demonstrated strong organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to work with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Excel skills.
• SAP knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the management of the organization’s budgeting process for Wallet Payments and Commerce products across multiple cross-functional teams.
• Own forecasting and monitoring budget performance.
• Provide operational and strategic support across a sophisticated organization.
• Reconcile multiple data universes and identify discrepancies.
• Manage solutions and support critical deliverables including quarter-end deep-dive analytics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across a globally distributed group to meet the data needs of the business.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees