Finance Manager 2 - Staffing

Circet USA•Bellevue, WA

About The Position

Circet USA is the leading provider of Network Services in North America, specializing in engineering and construction services for Inside Plant, Outside Plant, and Wireless networks. With nearly 50 years of experience, we serve major telecom service providers, MSOs, cloud service providers, and utilities. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Finance Manager 2 to fulfill a staff augmentation role with Circet USA’s customer. The main function of a Finance Manager is to supervise and direct analyses of information affecting investment programs of public or private institutions. The Finance Manager would be responsible for keeping up with accounting-related policies and procedures.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with data analytics experience required
Experience in business strategy, management consulting, business intelligence and/or industry analytical track record across various practice areas and industries
Minimum 5 years of related work experience, with successful track record for growth and leadership
Understanding of telecommunications industry technologies & trends.
Ability to recognize business opportunities through data and simulations. Develop actionable insights, convert insights to strategic recommendations, and present findings to key stakeholders
Comfort managing ambiguity and ability to aggregate information from multiple sources to formulate a cohesive strategy or direction
Hypothesis driven problem solving approach
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to influence senior stakeholders
Quality of insights: Depth, relevance, and actionable nature of strategic insights
Influential reporting: Quality of presentations / reports (verbal, written, PPT) to peers and top management
Effective navigation and project management: Ability to bring in and network with internal executive team and key managers from across divisions to drive results
Forward-thinking approach, strategic agility, and tenacity to drive what matters
Passion for “storytelling with data” to create a vision and inspire others to drive change

Nice To Haves

Data processing tools like Altyrex, Pandas or Tableau a plus

Responsibilities

Analyze channel sales trends to develop appropriate response and growth strategy including all business and financial metrics (including but not limited to pre and postpaid mobile subscriber trends, ARPU, device and service revenue trends, etc.), as well as industry developments as they occur
Assess business performance – e.g. revenue growth / profitability / M/S.
Market Intelligence: Analyze market (e.g., industry structure, macroeconomic changes, competitive behavior, consumer sentiment). Deliver insights on trends/opportunities and assist with setting strategic direction.
Timeliness of insights: Provide timely and insightful analysis of carrier and competitor’s quarterly and annual earnings reports and other critical events and issues as relevant.
Business Strategy Support: Offer ad-hoc support, analysis, and recommendations for Senior executives in response to strategic developments or other necessities internally and externally
Meeting / Workshops: Lead / help organizing cross-divisional strategy conference, meetings and workshops and ensure successful outcomes and follow-ups
Cross-functional T/F: Lead and facilitate cross-functional task forces on key cross- strategic issues based on senior management request.
Partner Relationships: Manage and cultivate relationships with 3rd party providers to enhance business intelligence capabilities. Monitor partner performance and data accuracy. Act as liaison between partners and business units to assist with intelligence.
Close gaps in existing methods and processes, implement best practices and be a champion of continuous process improvement