Essential Functions:
- Partner with the Customer Success business leaders to prepare the annual expense budget and quarterly expense forecasts
- Analyze month end department expense results for the global departments and prepare appropriate journal entries to ensure expenses are recorded properly.
- Provide objective analytical support to influence and reinforce expense decisions.
- Prepare month end variance explanations and analysis for monthly reporting & KPIs.
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve existing processes and procedures.
- Perform ad-hoc financial analysis as needed and seek out and create new opportunities for further analysis across Customer Success.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong qualitative and quantitative skills, with demonstrated experience using data to drive decision making.
- Prior experience working with tight deadlines and demonstrated responsibility for accuracy and timeliness for work performed.
- A team player with the ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally.
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills. Must be able to convey information to all levels of the organization in a clear, focused, and concise manner.
- Excellent Microsoft Excel experience required; SAC & SAP experience is a plus.
- Process improvement focus.
Minimum education and work experience required:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in either Finance or Accounting is required. Professional accounting qualification preferred.
- 4+ years of Commercial Finance/FP&A experience preferred.
- Experience supporting global expense planning preferred.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g., CPA)
- 4+ years of Commercial Finance/FP&A experience
- Experience supporting global expense planning
- Excellent Microsoft Excel experience
- SAC and SAP experience
- Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills
- Ability to meet tight deadlines with accuracy and timeliness
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Process improvement focus
Cognex Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cognex and has not been reviewed or approved by Cognex.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance and dental coverage are included, and coverage is described as good compared to alternatives.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A PTO/Vacation policy is in place and time off is generally considered reasonable; time away is treated as actual downtime without expectations to work.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match is offered and is characterized as solid, though not best-in-class.
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What We Do
Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of image-based products, all of which use artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that give them the human-like ability to make decisions on what they see. Cognex products include machine vision systems, machine vision sensors and barcode readers that are used in factories and distribution centers around the world where they eliminate production and shipping errors. Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 4 million image-based products, representing over $10 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, USA, Cognex has offices and distributors located throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For details visit Cognex online at www.cognex.com.
