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Nutanix

Builds software to run apps across cloud systems

Senior Manager - Opex Consolidation

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Jose, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field is required.
  • Eight to ten or more years of progressive FP&A or Sales Finance experience, ideally in a high-growth SaaS or enterprise software company, including demonstrated experience in operating expense planning and consolidation.
  • Expert-level financial modeling in Microsoft Excel and strong experience with enterprise planning, reporting, and visualization tools.
  • Deep understanding of operating expense drivers, headcount planning, annual operating plans, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocation, and management reporting.
  • Proven ability to distill complex, multi-million-dollar expense datasets into concise executive-level narratives and presentations.
  • Ability to manage multiple priority timelines and iterate models rapidly in a matrixed, global organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual operating expense consolidation across the worldwide sales organization, ensuring completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery.
  • Build and maintain scalable expense models covering headcount, compensation, commissions, travel and entertainment, programs, facilities, and other discretionary spend.
  • Maintain operating expense plans and articulate risks, opportunities, and key spend drivers relative to the Annual Operating Plan, forecast, and long-range plan.
  • Serve as the team's modeling expert, ensuring Excel-based models are formulaically sound, auditable, scalable, and aligned with approved planning assumptions.
  • Develop and compile summaries and slides for close, forecast, Annual Operating Plan, and strategic reviews with sales and finance leadership.
  • Establish and manage reporting for headcount, cost per seller, spend by function and theater, program spend, and run-rate performance versus plan.
  • Analyze actual operating expense performance against the Annual Operating Plan, forecast, and prior-year results; identify root causes, risks, and recommended actions.
  • Act as the first point of contact for the GTM Finance Senior Director on ad-hoc requests, strategic queries, expense deep-dives, and cross-functional analyses.
  • Project-manage strategic initiatives and high-priority finance projects across the team, ensuring cross-functional alignment and timely delivery of expense-management and planning deliverables.
  • Lead cross-functional alignment projects across Sales, Finance, HR/People, Procurement, IT, and other partner organizations to improve cost visibility, strengthen accountability, and unblock strategic programs.

Desired Qualifications

  • An MBA, CPA, or CFA is highly preferred.
  • Experience applying generative AI, machine learning, or automation to financial planning, forecasting, expense analysis, reporting, or process improvement is preferred.

About the Company

Nutanix

Builds software to run apps across cloud systems

Nutanix builds infrastructure software for organizations that run applications and manage data across private data centers, public clouds and edge locations. Its cloud platform combines virtual machines, storage, networking and management, with AHV virtualization and Prism controls in one system. Customers also use its tools to operate Kubernetes clusters, automate databases and deploy AI inference services across computing environments. The company sells software subscriptions and support that run on compatible servers and public cloud capacity supplied by other providers. Nutanix was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
2009

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