NetApp Senior Financial Analyst 

United States, North Carolina 

727340289

• Responsible for financial support and related business partnering to enable:
o Business Partnership – FPA partnership to Renewals Customer Success VP to include full business financial ownership, deal support, financial metrics and reporting to include business review packages.
o Sales Analysis – Analysis and expertise into market and install base sales opportunities for Support Renewals products.
o Weekly and Monthly Forecasting – Pipeline, Opportunity, and Sales Forecast inspection
o Monthly Forecasting for Headcount and operating expenses. Ongoing headcount and backfill tracking and approvals.
o Monthly and Quarterly Close including J/E overview, commissions accounting, account reconciliations, leader reviews and packages
o Financial and operational reporting including UFR & IQRR metrics. ROI for investment requests, headcount, & install base modeling.
• Develop new planning model for both current and long-term planning, including Monthly and Quarterly Business Review metrics, install base forecasting, transaction, variable compensation and spend forecasting.
• Work with cross-functional business partners to identify efficiencies and cost saving opportunities, ensure accuracy of business assumptions, and provide financial modeling for forecasting and report actual savings of initiatives.
• Role requires someone with a highly analytical skillset, prior experience with Renewals and/or Support/maintenance Sales financial support. Additionally, ability to merge and analyze large datasets from various sources, someone who thinks outside of the box and identifies issues and solutions through the analysis of data and partnering with business, works proactivity to recognize issues and provide solutions.
• Role requires someone with a strong personality and ability to drive collaboration with Renewals leadership. Prior experience with Support Renewals and/or Sales finance required. Ability to review and interpret key financial metrics around support renewals and articulate to leadership. High visibility role that will require close partnership with VP of Renewals.

• Prior experience with Support Renewals and/or Sales finance
• Ability to analyze and interpret renewal sales and revenue trends.
• Good interpersonal communication skills and ability to work effectively with Staff to Sr VP level employees within Renewals, Finance, across functions and with external parties.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to create and advise on financial models using Excel or other analytical tools, ability to create actionable insights from data analysis.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills particularly with Excel; database and statistical skills a plus
• Ability to build strong working relationships across all levels of the organization and across various geographies and time zones.
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities.
• Ability to follow standard accounting and finance practices, and departmental procedures and processes. General knowledge of GAAP and standard cost accounting.
• The tasks this individual is responsible for are often unstructured and the issues addressed are less defined requiring new perspectives and creative approaches.
• This individual will apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving problems that are complex in scope requiring in-depth evaluation.
• Limited supervision and direction are provided, as this individual can operate and drive results and set priorities independently.

Requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent experience.