Job Description

The Senior Manager of Finance role, supports the Data Center HDD team, which sells enterprise-grade products into major Cloud, OEM, and Distribution customers. This role is responsible for driving forecasts, scenario planning, calling out risks and opportunities, and providing upper management with the analysis required to make sound, timely decisions. The role serves as the business partner for the BU OPS team, while also working across Sales, Mkt, Pricing, Cost, Inventory and Operations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as the primary operational contact for the Business Unit and Corp Finance for the forecast process
• Coordinate and lead review sessions with BU and Finance groups to finalize financial projected volumes, Rev$, GP$, and GM%
• Weekly tracking of key metrics with adjustments to the current quarter outlook
• Identification of risks and opportunities related to supply constraints and/or demand strength, with risk mitigation
• Measure and report forecast accuracy to drive model improvements
• Collaborate with peers, Business Unit Teams, and Accounting on alignment for quarter-end plan attainment, and oversee the quarter close process
• Maintain reports and present to Management and cross functional teams
• Ongoing detailed analysis of customer and product performance and trends  
• Review and provide feedback on pricing strategies and margin enhancement
• Develop and maintain integrated tools and reports to improve and automate processes
• Manage, lead, and develop two analysts
• Ad hoc requests as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics/Statistics, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management or related subject area with 7+ years of work experience
• Ability to take divergent sources of data, break it down to concise messaging, and provide a comprehensive picture to help management make decisions   
• High level of business acumen
• Strong communication skills with the ability to close issues
• Hard worker, who can anticipate, prioritize and adjust quickly
• Strong analytical and process improvement skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Understanding of systems and the ability to provide dashboard reporting
• Excellent cross functional process management and collaboration skills
• Expert Excel, modelling, and PPT skills