Finance Manager, Commercial FP&A
- Basking Ridge, NJ, United States
- Full-Time Finance
- Job # 534084
- Date posted - 2019-11-26
What you’ll be doing...
Wireless FP&A Commercial Finance Team
Move beyond compiling data and help tell the story behind the numbers. The Business Unit facing positions offer opportunities to drive better business partnering and insights, while growing your FP&A leadership and interpersonal skills. You are considered a business partner and your contributions will make a difference. You’ll become involved in, but not limited to, pricing decisions and new initiatives to develop new products and services. You can have an impact on new business growth opportunities through development of business case scenarios.
You will be responsible for helping identifying and executing on opportunities to fundamentally transform our business, driving improvements in productivity, efficiency and profitability. You will own the entire financial analysis for numerous large initiatives involving multi-million dollar investments, cost cutting initiatives and revenue streams.
- Developing complex financial models and corresponding assumptions used to evaluate the profitability and return on investment of revenue generating and cost reduction initiatives.
- Partnering with various departments including Business Transformation, Finance Operations, and Marketing to provide timely and accurate financial, analytical, and tracking support.
- Leveraging keen business acumen, advanced analytical skill set and deep understanding of industry and VZW financial / operational drivers to assess proposals.
- Providing tracking and reporting on initiatives and generate post mortems presenting the success of programs in terms of return on investment.
- Partnering with FP&A to integrate these transformational opportunities into the business plan / outlook.
- Preparing financial presentation materials and form proposals for executive review with CFO and executives.
What we’re looking for...
You’ll need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or four or more years of work experience.
- Six or more years of relevant work experience.
- High degree of proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
Even better if you have:
- Master's in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Economics.
- Experience in the technology and/or telecommunications industry.
- A professional certification (e.g. CPA, CMA).
- Analytical and financial modeling skills with emphasis on NPV and financial statement analysis.
- Analytical capability with the demonstrated ability to structure business case around a high-level strategic vision.
- Strong strategic skills, with the proven ability to identify and assess key points, implications and recommendations.
- Knowledge of corporate financial planning, reporting & analysis, and costing/profitability methodologies and processes.
- Knowledge of common business and cost drivers, financial statement analysis, and deep-dive analysis.
- Experience leading large and complex team projects with minimal supervision.
- Statistical analysis experience.
- Demonstrated experience in continuous improvement initiatives, root cause analysis and project management.
- Proficiency in Essbase, Smart View, Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion Strategic Finance, and Teradata.
- Prior programming experience (VBA, Python, and R etc.)
When you join Verizon...
You’ll have the power to go beyond – doing the work that’s transforming how people, businesses and things connect with each other. Not only do we provide the fastest and most reliable network for our customers, but we were first to 5G - a quantum leap in connectivity. Our connected solutions are making communities stronger and enabling energy efficiency. Here, you’ll have the ability to make an impact and create positive change. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, join our team of the best and brightest. We offer great pay, amazing benefits and opportunity to learn and grow in every role. Together we’ll go far.
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