Business Planning

HP•Vancouver, WA

About The Position

HP’s CTO organization is transforming in order to successfully grow and execute at a global scale. As a Business Planning Lead, you will play a critical role by supporting the organization’s financials and driving strategic direction. You will support several L3s to forecast and track team financials, prioritize strategic initiatives, lead key cross-functional projects, and coordinate action plans. This is a very exciting time to be at HP as our services and solutions portfolio is growing and we need your help!

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Management or equivalent.
Typically 10+ years’ post-graduate experience.
Microsoft Power Query, Power Pivot features built in Excel
Smart Sheet
Understand master data concepts
Demonstrated business acumen, understanding of organizational strategy, and successful experience managing all aspects of cross business unit programs, including communicating with internal and external stakeholders and directing matrixed teams and resources.
Understanding of HP’s financial processes and operational execution to enable immediate contribution to the broader CTO business planning team.
Exceptional analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including advanced negotiation, presentation, and influence skills; mastery in English and local language.
Ability to work in an ambiguous environment, exercising independent judgment.
Ability to orchestrate the development of strategic plans that reflect both HP’s and CTO’s business strategy and translate these strategies into executable operational initiatives.
Experience developing and maintaining KPIs to measure and track progress of initiatives toward achieving operational targets.
Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead effectively in a complex environment and deliver results; able to influence without direct authority and to balance between competing priorities by being flexible and creative.
Experience designing and developing project and program planning tools and software packages to create, manage, and track project results.

Responsibilities

Participate in the long-term planning process for the organization.
Translates long-term strategies into a set of key priorities, initiatives and KPIs within their organization(s).
Work with management and other planners on the annual budget and monthly flash processes.
Manages negotiations and reconciliations with finance teams.
Manage the operating model for the business ensuring the right cadence of reviews to deliver committed financial performance while advancing strategic priorities.
Develops recommendations for optimizing business and financial performance while mitigating risks.
Lead highly complex, time-sensitive requests from the business and our partners.
Work across functions and teams to drive clarity, accuracy, and consistency.
Support the development of effective presentation materials for executive-level reviews related to finances and budget.
Manage monthly deliverables related to financial reporting, forecasting, and choice points.
Proactively identify and document key risk areas on a monthly/quarterly basis, and work with all relevant leaders and stakeholders to manage them to resolution.
Manage workforce planning as it pertains the organization and impact to quarterly financial spend and budgets.
On an ad hoc basis, supports special projects that require coordination across functions.

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Long term/short term disability insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible spending account
Life insurance
Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
11 paid holidays
Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave