Overview As Senior Business and Strategic Financial Analyst, you will partner with Global Sales leadership to provide financial insights, strategic guidance, and performance analytics for a worldwide sales budget. You will develop plans, forecasts, and KPI dashboards, driving margin expansion and productivity gains. The role involves cross-functional collaboration with BU, engineering, marketing, and corporate finance to enable data-driven decision-making and ensure budget alignment with strategic goals. This is a high-impact, fast-paced position offering visibility to senior management and a chance to shape global sales investments.
Responsibilities- Act as strategic financial partner for the business unit with data-driven recommendations
- Develop annual plans, quarterly forecasts, and headcount trackers with variance analysis
- Provide P&L insights and ad-hoc financial modeling to leadership
- Maintain financial models for budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning
- Support the SVP of Global Sales with strategic insights through cross-functional reviews
- Identify efficiencies, margin expansion opportunities, and cash enablement
- Review and approve requisitions per governance policies
- Monitor spend, investments, and KPI-based visibility to hit financial targets
- Lead financial planning and analysis for Worldwide Sales and collaborate with regional groups
- Support strategic initiatives such as productivity metrics and funnel/demand creation
- Ensure compliance with financial policies and maintain accurate records
- Act as Finance partner to translate plans into executable initiatives
- Coordinate monthly plan/forecast/actuals reporting and executive summaries
- Be the liaison between Global/regional Sales and accounting/FP&A for guidance
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field
- Significant experience in finance, preferably in manufacturing
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities with stakeholder influence
- Experience in global, matrixed organizations is a plus
- Strong budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis knowledge
- Advanced Excel skills
- English proficiency (spoken and written)
- Familiarity with Oracle 12 (OBIEE, Project Accounting), Hyperion Planning, Essbase, Tableau desirable
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance
- Analytical prowess
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Effective communication
- Excel (advanced)
- Oracle 12 (OBIEE, Project Accounting)
- Hyperion Planning
