Senior Financial Analyst

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

9h • $106,000 - $146,000

About The Position

This position reports directly to ICAPS Finance Management. As a key finance business partner, the candidate will anticipate internal and/or external business challenges and actively influence management with critical analysis and sound business advice. This role collaborates with various cross-functional organizations globally and requires the ability to provide solutions to complex problems. Works independently to support a complex and growing business with a diverse set of new and existing products serving high share applications to commodity type applications.

Requirements

• Self-starter with strong work ethic and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with fluctuating priorities and deadlines; maintain financial cycle deliverables, identify change, and drive items to closure with minimal management oversight
• Able to work in ambiguous environment but still drive results, solve complex problems, exercises judgement based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
• Strategic Vision and Agility – anticipate challenges and consequences of decisions, readily identify, and seek solution, and incorporate them into the organization plan.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, including strong ability to create and present executive level presentation, and the ability to translate and simplify complex information and explain it to non-finance audience
• Comfortable with consulting/explaining financial matters to non-finance partners and providing business recommendations
• Strong understanding of SAP ERP systems and transaction flows
• BS degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA preferred
• 3 – 7 Years of Experience in a corporate finance environment

Responsibilities

• Participates in and owns portions of the preparation of the annual operating plan, long-term strategic plan, quarterly forecasts and quarter-end financial reporting for revenue, gross margin, investment portfolio, Opex spending, and balance sheet
• Collaborate with Business Management, Mfg. and Operations to execute to BU strategic plan/commitment and influence the outcome
• Support group objectives tied to performance metrics, continuous improvement projects and cost efficiency initiatives
• Develops complex modeling in support of strategic plans, business sizing and performance mgmt.
• Completes and presents detailed and insightful analysis, and decision support for finance and non-finance executives
• Provide value-add participation in the quarterly update of R&D program business case NPV models
• Drive quarterly cadence on NPI projects on BU Portfolio review and tracking progress against program objectives
• Partner with Operation to track and report NPI cost reduction roadmap progress against target
• Work on FP&A related Consolidation activities for FCST, STRAT and Quarter End.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level