We’re looking for an Associate who will work closely with senior FP&A leadership and play a critical role in managing and refining the global planning process. The position is based in our corporate headquarters in Los Gatos and reports to the Senior Manager, FP&A, Corporate.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:- Play a key role in updating and maintaining the company’s corporate-level forecast consolidation of the global P&L and cash flow. This includes partnering with FP&A colleagues embedded in Content, Product, and other functions to understand the business forecast and drivers.
- Maintain and refine the consolidated global cash flow forecast and key inputs including capex, depreciation, and interest models.
- Aid Tax in distilling the global P&L into regional and entity-level forecasts for global effective tax rate (ETR) and cash tax forecasts.
- Regularly craft presentations (quarter-end earnings and Board meetings) and summarize data for Finance leadership to facilitate decision-making.
- Update and refine long-range planning models used to help establish budgets, capital allocations, and to align the company on key financial objectives.
- Support ad hoc analysis and special projects as needed including FX and hedging, share repurchase/capital structure, and maintaining an internal valuation model, etc.
- Help modernize and automate the consolidated forecasting process, and create insights on the company's financial and operational performance
Qualifications- 3-5 years of experience in Investment Banking/Equity Research, Consulting, or prior FP&A/Strategic Finance at a large company.
- It’s critical to have a strong understanding of (and passion for!) financial statement analysis and the interaction between the financial statements
- Extensive experience conducting quantitative/ financial analysis and developing recommendations
- Deep understanding of key accounting concepts, and experience developing/automating financial forecast models and management reports on financial/operational performance
- Extremely proficient with Excel, PowerPoint
- Experience working with large data sets, SQL and Tableau knowledge a plus
- Extremely detail-oriented
- Experience with financial planning tools (e.g., TM1, Essbase, Anaplan, etc.)