NetApp Financial Analyst 

United States, California, San Jose 

990368249

This is a cross functional role, where you will partner with multiple functions including Engineering, Product teams, Sales, GTM, Accounting and Corporate Finance, legal and procurement to deliver accurate financial forecasting, actionable insights, and meaningful updates. Analytical thinking, crisp communication, effective business partnering and ability to adapt to a dynamic environment are key to success in this role.

• Business Partnership:
• Become a trusted business partner to the Cloud Business Unit and executive management
• Responsible for deeply embedding Finance into the business, understanding the business needs, and identifying trends and opportunities to advance NetApp’s business and financial strategy
• Develop revenue and expense plans, based on strategic business requirements in partnership with senior leaders
• Drive monthly/quarterly business reviews, metrics creation and tracking
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) process
• Collaborate with business partners to forecast activity, update departmental budgets, and maintain overall cost control of the organizations you support
• Financial Planning & Forecasting:
• Support annual financial planning cycle; ensure budget alignment with strategic roadmap and profitability targets
• Drive monthly/quarterly financial forecast cycle, ensuring accurate projections, appropriate level of reporting, variance analysis and pro-active communication
• Review financials related to close activities (end-of period accruals, reclass entries)
• Propose business operational improvements to enhance financial visibility, control, and planning effectiveness
• Drive accurate cloud spend forecasting and tracking against budget Support ad-hoc spend optimization requests and help hold business teams accountable to spend commitments
• Reporting & Analytics: Assist with the reporting of financial results to internal and external audiences. Use financial models to automate and scale current processes
• Drive cross functional efforts to continuously improve analytics, data quality and self-service reporting. Liaise with Corporate Accounting to ensure correct accounting treatment of transactional activities

• Finance experience in high growth, preferably in SaaS/Subscription environment preferred
• Passionate, accountable, self-motivated and ability to work independently, with general direction and guidance
• Strong organizational, communication, and influencing skills
• High proficiency with analytics, Power point, financial model building
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills as needed to work successfully with staff and managers within and outside of function or the company
• Willingness to learn adapt to the rapid business and organizational changes that accompany a high-growth environment
• Ability to follow standard accounting and finance practices, and departmental procedures and processes.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Hyperion skills a plus
• Work hard and play hard attitude

• BS/BA degree with 8+ years’ experience in FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) and /or Business Finance, Strategy & Operations