Job Summary
NetApp is looking for a tenacious Senior Manager to join our BU Finance team. This is a stellar opportunity to get involved in a highly visible area.
The primary role of the Sr. Finance Manager Product Portfolio is to be the Liaison between Product Business Unit, Supply Chain, and GTM Finance and business teams to drive product margin goals. Ensure cross functional alignment of business and financial assumptions used for analytics and decision support across the company.
You will get involved with Sales & Operations Plan (S&OP) process; understanding key drivers such as schedule product transitions, supply landscape, capacity mix, ASP's, and product costs to name a few.
Drive desired long-term business goals and objectives across the company, including Design for cost, Cost Management, and Demand Steering to maximize product margins. It is a cross functional role, where you will partner with multiple functions including GTM, Product Business Units, Supply Chain, Legal and their related Finance partners to deliver actionable insights to influence financial results.
As a leader, you will play a critical role including but not limited to follow areas:
Supply Chain FP&A• Drive financial framework and an ROI assessment for decision support for key investment or cost avoidance activities across the company.• Support annual and long-term financial planning cycle; ensure budget alignment with strategic roadmap and profitability targets, including cost assumptions and targets.• Ensure consistent assumptions across the company to improve direct cash forecast method.• Understand product cost structure and be a thought leader in establishing improved cost targets each year • Participate and lead finance activities for key priorities such as strategic commodity buys, de-risk vendor strategies, etc. • Work closely with BU, Supply Chain and related Finance team along with other stakeholders to drive cost efficiencies each year.
Business Partnership:• Business partner cross functionally to drive data driven decisions.• Collaborate with business partners to influence business outcomes, forecast activity, update departmental budgets, and maintain overall cost control of the organizations you support.• Develop strong relationships with business partners by understanding organizational priorities and drive operational initiatives to support those priorities.
Financial Planning & Forecasting:• Support annual financial planning cycle; ensure budget alignment with strategic roadmap and profitability targets.• Drive monthly/quarterly financial forecast cycle, ensuring accurate projections, appropriate level of reporting, variance analysis and proactive communication.• Review financials related to close activities • Propose business operational improvements to enhance financial visibility, control and planning effectiveness.• Drive accurate spend forecasting and tracking against targets• Support ad-hoc spend optimization requests and help hold business teams accountable to spend commitments.
Reporting & Analytics:• Assist with the reporting of financial results to internal and external audiences.• Support Monthly and Qtrly business review process• Use financial models to automate and scale current processes.
Job Requirements
To be successful in the role, you should possess most of the following skills:• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance (MBA or CPA preferred)• Relevant experience in GTM, Product Life Cycle, Supply Chain/Costing • Ability to build complex financial models to do scenario based planning • Relevant FP&A/Strategic Finance experience • Passionate, accountable, self-motivated and ability to work independently, with general direction and guidance• Strong organizational, communication, and influencing skills• High proficiency with analytics and presentation skills • Experience in the application of accounting principles to periodic financial reporting, planning and forecasting• Strong attention to detail and accuracy• Willingness to learn adapt to the rapid business and organizational changes
Education
A minimum of 15 years of related experience with Bachelor's Degree pref'd and Advanced Degree desired but not required.
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $274,000 and will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO), various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU's), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.
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