Senior Manager, Opex Consolidation

Nutanix•San Jose, CA

2d•$202,000 - $302,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Manager, Worldwide GTM Finance to lead our global operating expense forecasting, consolidation, and financial modeling infrastructure. In this role, you will own the end-to-end global roll-up of operating expenses across the sales organization, design scalable driver-based planning models, and translate complex spend trends into clear, board-ready executive summaries. You will challenge the status quo, streamline manual processes, and act as a trusted strategic advisor on cost visibility, investment decisions, and profitable growth.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related fields
8-10+ years of progressive FP&A or Sales Finance experience, ideally within a high-growth SaaS or enterprise software company, with demonstrated experience in operating expense planning and consolidation.
Expert-level financial modeling in Microsoft Excel, with strong experience using enterprise planning, reporting, and visualization tools.
Deep understanding of operating expense drivers, headcount planning, annual operating plans, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocation, and management reporting.
Proven ability to distill complex, multi-million-dollar expense datasets into concise executive-level narratives and presentations.
Ability to manage multiple priority timelines, iterate models rapidly, and thrive within a matrixed, global organization.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, or CFA is highly preferred.
Experience applying generative AI, machine learning, or automation to financial planning, forecasting, expense analysis, reporting, or process improvement is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation of operating expenses across the worldwide sales organization, ensuring completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery.
Build and maintain scalable expense models covering headcount, compensation, commissions, travel and entertainment, programs, facilities, and other discretionary spend.
Maintain operating expense plans with clear articulation of risks, opportunities, and key spend drivers relative to the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), forecast, and long-range plan.
Serve as the modeling expert on the team, ensuring Excel-based models are formulaically sound, auditable, scalable, and aligned to approved planning assumptions.
Develop and compile high-impact summaries and slides for close, forecast, AOP, and strategic reviews with sales and finance leadership.
Establish and manage reporting for headcount, cost per seller, spend by function and theater, program spend, and run-rate performance versus plan.
Provide deep-dive commentary comparing actual operating expense performance to the AOP, forecast, and prior-year results; identify root causes, risks, and recommended actions.
Act as the first point of contact for the GTM Finance Sr. Director on ad-hoc requests, strategic queries, expense deep-dives, and cross-functional analyses.
Project manage key strategic initiatives and high-priority finance projects across the team, ensuring cross-functional alignment and timely delivery of expense-management and planning deliverables.
Lead cross-functional alignment projects across Sales, Finance, HR/People, Procurement, IT, and other partner organizations to improve cost visibility, strengthen accountability, and unblock strategic programs.