Global FP&A Sr. Manager - Strategic Review and Financial Analysis

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This leadership role under Global FP&A will support the financial analysis/reporting for the annual Strategic Planning process, the Enterprise Portfolio Process, and ad hoc analytical support for the CEO and CFO. This position will involve analyzing data to create key insights and trends as well as developing content for exec management, product groups, investor relations and treasury. The position requires strong strategic thinking, communication, and analytical skills as majority of the reporting and presentations will be serving the executive management of the company.

Requirements

• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and analytical skills
• Ability to move quickly on short-notice requests
• Synthesize complex financial and business information into clear, executive-ready insights
• Exercise sound judgment on prioritization given competing, time-sensitive demands from top leadership
• Solid grasp and understanding of financials and GAAP reporting, including understanding of balance sheet and cash flow statements and drivers.

Responsibilities

• Works closely with the CVP, Corp Planning to enable annual portfolio reviews with CEO/CFO and Product Groups + Corp Functions.
• Serves as a trusted resource for ad hoc analysis directly supporting the CEO and CFO. This requires the ability to move quickly on short-notice requests, synthesize complex financial and business information into clear, executive-ready insights, and exercise sound judgment on prioritization given competing, time-sensitive demands from top leadership.
• Leads the finance support for company's strategic planning process from GFP&A team.
• Partners with GFP&A team members and other FP&A teams across the company to ensure robust financial submissions for the annual strategic planning process.
• Responsible for LT Financial plan model and Finance SR (Strategic Review) process that provides timeline/guidelines into the respective segment/function finance teams for the SR process.
• Creates annual Strategic plan financial summaries for CEO/CFO reviews.
• Goal for the EPRs (Enterprise Portfolio Reviews) is to help optimize overall R&D + SG&A spend allocation for the next Fiscal year.
• This will require a good understanding of company’s business portfolio and how those businesses tie into company strategies.
• The person will be involved in planning for the requirements around data and other metrics from company-wide groups to help execute effective portfolio reviews with actionable insights.
• The person in this role will also help summarize data related to market trends and drivers, competitors, business unit financials in a meaningful way.
• This person will proactively work with key business partners across the company to develop actionable reports and analyses.
• The ideal candidate needs to be comfortable working on strategic initiatives, as well as deliverables related to financial reviews and time-sensitive executive requests.
• The right individual will have strong analytical skills and work ethics, capable of executing to deadlines and requests efficiently.
• Also, the person should demonstrate solid grasp and understanding of financials and GAAP reporting, including understanding of balance sheet and cash flow statements and drivers.

Benefits

• Supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed