I would like to set up a time to discuss the potential opportunity below:

Role: Finance Manager

Location: Remote

Duration: 5 months

Candidate Requirements

• Years of Experience Required: 1-3 overall years of experience in the field.
• Degrees or certifications required: N/A * Disqualifiers: N/A * Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain:
• Familiarity with Microsoft Systems like MyOrder and Informa is a plus.
• Service-oriented approach and flexible problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication style that is collaborative and customer-focused.
• Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on meeting deadlines and data quality.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

• Minimum 1-3 years experience with Financial or Business PM
• Minimum 1-3 years experience with Advanced Excel and reporting skills - pivot table experience is required.

Summary:

Job Description: Support the Financial Business Operations team to drive annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and actuals/variance reporting. Facilitate planning/forecasting project management process to fit organizational needs and oversee and execute on that process/plan. Identify and implement continuous improvement practices, and provide regular status reports as required. This role will own the logistics for and coordinate documentation creation for the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial processes

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of experience as Financial or Business PM
• Advanced Excel and reporting skills
• Ability to work independently with little guidance
• Familiarity with Microsoft financial systems such as MyOrder, Informa, GSR, Mercury Hierarchy and pivots highly desired.

Responsibilities include: (but not limited to) * ROB support:

• Manage monthly ROB calendar, run meetings, capture notes and ensure action items are defined and closed
• Create monthly reporting and presentation documents o Maintain SharePoint structure and monthly/quarterly file creation

Financial tools:

• Support and/or process accruals and reclass actuals o Assess, advise on, and process requests for IO creation
• Maintain PO to BID links in Budgeting tool RIM
• Ad-hoc - Reporting and analysis as needed"

Typical Day in the Role:

• Purpose of the Team: The team is a central office for Windows and devices, responsible for budgeting and forecasting.
• They manage a portfolio of about $350 million in OpEx, non-people spend, particularly for first-party hardware development. The team uses an internal budgeting tool where all teams input their budget plans.
• They ensure users know how to use the tool, configure it for hierarchy changes, set up users, communicate timelines, and consolidate the budget plan for submission to Microsoft Finance.

Key projects: This role will contribute to:

• Running ROB (Rhythm of Business) meetings and communication cadences.
• Collecting data and processing within the financial system.
• Ensuring POs are set up to link with budget items and plan processing reclasses to the central finance team.