Pricing Analyst jobs at Applied Materials

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with the accurate and timely filing of various corporate government filings, including federal, state, and local tax returns, prepare and review tax workpapers, reconciliations, and supporting documentation
• Prepare and review workpapers that support the state nexus determination, the apportionment of income, state modifications, and overall tax calculations for various state and local tax authorities
• Assist with the preparation and documentation of the R&D tax credit calculation
• Assist with quarterly tax estimates and yearly extensions including process improvements related to the forecasting of global cash tax payments
• Assist with tax audits at both the federal and state levels, including preparing responses to audit queries
• Assist in developing processes that synergize tax provision and tax compliance computations
• Assist with SOX internal controls compliance

• Monitor tax law developments and evaluate impacts
• Identify opportunities to minimize tax liabilities through strategic tax planning

• Research, evaluate and document tax implications of complex transactions
• Collaborate and partner with members of the Global Tax Team and other Finance teams to provide U.S. tax operations support
• Maintain U.S. compliance tracker and foreign tax returns tracker
• Provide tax operations support to special tax projects

Critical Skills

• Strong organizational skills and time management skills
• Growth, innovative mindset and a strong sense of ownership
• Can-do attitude, curiosity and adaptability
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to review financial data, identify tax risks and opportunities, and provide strategic advice
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Team player with cross-functional awareness

Required Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related discipline; Master’s degree a plus
• CPA a plus
• 2-4+ years of tax experience in public accounting or large multi-national corporations, preferably with an emphasis on income tax accounting (ASC 740) and/or tax compliance with willingness to learn both
• Familiarity with technology and automation tools (Alteryx, Tableau, Databricks, etc.) or a willingness to learn
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites, especially Excel and PowerPoint, and tax research tools (BNA and/or CCH)
• Experience with Corptax a plus
• Experience with SAP a plus
• Experience with Longview and/or OTP a plus

Key Responsibilities

This is a dynamic role that will enable the candidate to lead pricing analysis and revenue execution in partnership with Business Management, Global Product Marketing, and Business Management Operations. The position requires an individual who is eager to work across functions and levels to provide valued Finance support.

• Business partnering with executive management team; primary finance partner for Business Management, Global Product Marketing, & Business Management Operations organizations as well as Gross Margin Improvement lead.

• Analyzes product pricing performance and works with Business Management on closing gaps in pricing expectations for deals and sales opportunities.
• Support long range strategic review, focusing on Competitive & Market share analysis
• Support the adoption of CRP and new pricing metrics into existing business processes. Drive process corrections in upstream functions to ensure data fidelity for Revenue forecast accuracy and value capture opportunities
• Supports data preparation of Alpine pricing scorecard at QBR / Alpine reviews
• Deal analysis – owns optimization of pricing for partnering with Business Management on profitability & commercials. Recommends or leads product or service improvements to commercial deal structures.
  • Sales Approval analysis – partnering with Business Management on ASP increase initiatives and alignment to PDP pricing strategy
  • Drive execution towards Days Sales Outstanding and FGI dwell time targets
  • Support for BU S&OP Demand Reviews, including scenario planning and market share implications
  • Coordination across functions to drive build plan reconciliation alignment
  • Bookings, billing, backlog analysis and market share forecast
  • Forecasting & delivering predictable financial results
  • Close/GAAP, including revenue recognition (working with ORCA and closing out SRD, TSO, POD) and balance sheet management
  • Process improvement in collaboration with peers in Silicon Product Group (SPG)
  • Key participant on Agile Finance initiatives; lead for one segment-wide initiative
  • Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.

Job Description Summary

Requires in-depth knowledge and experience. Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions. Works independently, receives minimal guidance. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

Job Description – Senior Financial Analyst – Global Financial Planning & Analysis (B4)

This Sr. FP&A Analyst role under Corporate Planning Organization will support driving GFP&A activities for the entire company. This position will involve analyzing and developing content for CFO, product groups, investor relations and treasury, and presenting that content in an effective way. The position requires high level of diligence as majority of the reporting and presentations will be serving the executive management of the company.

The right individual will have strong analytical skills and work ethics, capable of executing to deadlines and requests. Also the person should demonstrate solid grasp and understanding of financials and GAAP reporting, including understanding of balance sheet and cash flow statements and drivers.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform spend analytics in a meaningful way that takes into account business understanding towards actionable insights
• Perform regular predictive financial modeling, monitoring outcomes, and refining the model
• Interpret financial results into insights and recommendations for presentation to executives
• Act as a finance business partner and subject matter expert across the business
• Manage and update content as needed for investor relations events and board meetings
• Provide financial modeling, analysis, and valuation support for acquisitions and ad-hoc projects
• Identify and implement reporting of key financial metrics that enable meaningful insights and improve the visibility to company’s financial results
• Identify and drive impactful process standardizations across Finance
• Partner with GIS to enable implementation of reporting systems and processes across Finance

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s Degree, CPA, CFA preferred) – Finance, Accounting, Economics or Business-related degree preferred
• 8-12 years of experience in Finance/Accounting for reputable firms
• Strong communication and persuasion skills
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, dashboards, data visualization
• Strong analytical, financial modeling and reporting skills
• Attention to details, ability to think clearly, work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Curiosity to learn the business, improve processes and strive for excellence
• Ability to work with minimal guidance in a fast-paced, global environment
• Experience in implementing new finance technology such as Tableau, Big Data, etc. a plus

Job Description Summary

Requires knowledge and experience in own discipline; still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills. Builds knowledge of the company, processes, and customers. Solves a range of problems. Analyzes possible solutions using standard procedures. Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for all spending and budgeting related activities. These activities include but are not limited to forecasting, reporting, journal entries posting, capital budget management and execution, quarter end close and accounts reconciliation.
• Effectively collaborate and interact with various Business Managers and be responsible in consolidating key FP&A requirements, while delivering reporting analysis for all financial cycles.
• Perform consolidation and reporting related to financial close, quarterly business reviews, Annual Operating Plans, Strategic Review and forecast cycles
• Collaborate with cross functional teams in performing detailed analysis for finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Support management in completing ad hoc reports and providing data driven insights into business performance
• Develop financial models, run scenario analysis and provide support in analyzing margins, risks and opportunities.
• Lead the effort in streamlining management reporting and centralizing information and analytics
• Proactively identify and drive process improvement initiatives

Qualifications & Preferences

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong Excel modeling skills, experience with Financial systems like SAP, Anaplan and Tableau a plus
• Collaborative working style, excellent communication, and presentation skills
• Self-starter with a positive attitude and ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment

Bachelor’s degree inor related field

4-7 years of finance experience and Master’s Degree preferred

Major Responsibilities

Post credit and debit memos as approved/needed.

Resolution of past due accounts.

Ad-hoc reporting & analysis.

Key Competencies

Ability to recognize escalation points to facilitate timely corrections of AR and revenue postings.

Strong attention to details and solid organizational skills.

SAP or large ERP system knowledge.

Strong understanding of accounts receivables transactions.

Excel (pivot tables with ability to summarize data in a meaningful way, vlookups) & analytical skills (Tableau user)

Ability to identify and / or outline recommendations that will address front-end issues and system processing issues that drive the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) results.

Recommend and participate in improvements to the financial processes.

Education and Experience

Excel hands on experience.

SAP knowledge is aplus.

Finance/accounting degree.

2 - 4 years of experience in accounting or finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Understands technical and business environments. Assists with the development of strategies to meet business objectives.

• Applies broad and comprehensive knowledge to establish pricing strategies to build and protect a leadership position in market share while enhancing value capture and developing marketing tools for successful product introductions.

• Conducts broad and comprehensive value analysis for specific products or product lines.

• Demonstrates long term vision for the pricing function.

Key Service Pricing Strategy Development Responsibilities:

• Develop methodology for building analytics driven ‘Pricing Model’ for driving growth in Applied Global Services Service portfolio.

• Evaluate and make recommendations on how to determine prices.

• Understand, build intelligence on pricing benchmarks while leveraging next best competitive alternative.

• Quantify differentiated customer value while leveraging customer value sharing tools and conceptual frameworks.

• Conducts complex competitive analysis for specific pricing strategy and major pricing tasks.

• Review and analyze opportunities for improving profitability.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7-10 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry

• Direct, hand-on experience working with semiconductor equipment/tools. Ideal candidates may have previously worked as Field Service Engineers or Process Engineers, where they gained a deep understanding of semiconductor manufacturing environments, tool functionality, and process optimization.

• Strong complex problem-solvingcapabilities and interpersonalskills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Enable creation of Service Pricing strategy, structure, systems, & process to enable AGS growth.

• Experience building Service Pricing strategy to drive revenue growth and Value capture.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with quarterly and annual income tax provisions under ASC 740, focusing on U.S. international tax aspects
• Assist with the preparation and review of U.S. international income tax compliance, including Forms 5471, 8858, 8865, 8990, 8991, 8992, 8993, 1118, 8621, 926, and U.S. withholding tax returns
• Assist in enhancing quarterly and annual tax provision process and U.S. tax compliance including automation. Assist in developing processes that synergize tax provision and tax compliance
• Track and maintain legal entity structure, ensuring entity registration, qualification, and tax classification are up to date
• Monitor entity formations, dispositions, mergers, or restructurings and ensure proper entity-level tax attributes and elections
• Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments and evaluate impacts
• Research, evaluate and document tax implications of complex cross-border transactions
• Collaborate and partner with members of the Global Tax Team and other Finance teams to provide U.S. international tax support
• Maintain and track E&P, taxes paid and intercompany transactions
• Provide tax operations support to special tax projects, including cross-border structuring, financing, cash repatriation, and M&A projects

Critical Skills

• Growth, innovative mindset and a strong sense of ownership
• Can-do attitude, curiosity and adaptability
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and time management skills
• Detail-oriented team player with cross-functional awareness

Required Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related discipline; Master’s degree a plus
• CPA a plus
• 2-4+ years of tax experience in public accounting or large multi-national corporations, preferably with an emphasis on U.S. international tax
• Familiarity with technology and automation tools (Alteryx, Tableau, etc.) or a willingness to learn
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites, especially Excel and PowerPoint, and tax research tools (BNA and/or CCH)
• Experience with SAP a plus
• Experience with Longview and/or OTP a plus