Sr Finance Manager

Blue Yonder Title:Sr.

Finance ManagerOverview:* The Sr.

Finance Manager will be responsible for driving the Product Development business unit toward improving the profitability of its P&L.

This role will partner with the business unit and engineering leads to develop financial and operational strategies to hit near-term and long-term goals.

The successful candidate will possess deep financial analytics and the ability to work in a cross functional capacity.

The role will report directly to the VP of Finance for Product Development and will be located in our Scottsdale, AZ office.Our current technical environment:* Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint are required.* Experience with Hyperion, Workday, and PowerBI is preferred.What you’ll do:* Lead the budgeting and forecasting process in partnership with the global business unit, focusing on process, timeline and coordination, historical trends, business driver benchmarking and assumption validation.* Partner with business unit leads to develop financial models for business cases including ROI’s for new products, initiatives, or technologies.* Drive external market analytics into business unit decision making processes.* Analyze actual results versus budgets and forecasts, and work with the business partners to understand the root causes of the variances.

Interpret results and make recommendations which may result in cost reduction and/or profit improvements.* Design and implement reporting packages, tailored to the business’ operations and particular decision makers’ needs.* Summarize large data sets and distill trends using detailed financial models, providing summary conclusions and actionable recommendations.* Interface with all levels of management to identify operational issues that could affect the forecast.

Quantify the dollar impact to the forecast and communicate to management, major scope changes versus prior year and forecast.* Assist with senior management and Board business and financial planning, including presentations and key analysis requests.* Lead initiatives to continuously improve and automate forecasting and reporting tools.What we are looking for:* Minimum five (5) years work experience in a mid to large corporate environment including financial analysis, budget development and analysis, accounting, and project management.* Bachelor’s degree in Finance and/or Accounting is required, an MBA is preferred.* Experience working in a software company is a plus.* Thorough knowledge of financial and accounting concepts.* Someone who strives to be a true business partner that helps the bottom line.Leadership Characteristics* Understanding the Business
– Quickly learns the business and the mission-critical technical and functional skills needed to do the job; understands various types of business propositions and understands how businesses operate in general; learns new methods and technologies easily.* Making Complex Decisions
– Can solve even the toughest and most complex of problems; great at gleaning meaning from whatever data is available; is a quick study of the new and different; adds personal wisdom and experience to come to the best conclusion and solution, given the situation; uses multiple problem-solving tools and techniques* Collaboration
– Works well and collaborates with others to achieve quality results.

Recognizes the need to include others to achieve maximum results.

Acts as one team.

Is open and candid in team environments, even when he /she disagrees with the overall team.

Identifies hidden issues impacting the team.

Aligns goals across teams and coordinates activities.

Balances individual work goals to meet team objectives.

Acts in a way that adds value to the overall project.* Managing Diverse Relationships
– Relates well to a wide variety of diverse styles, types, and classes; open to differences; effective up, down, sideways, inside and outside; builds diverse networks; quick to find common ground; treats differences fairly and equitably; treats everyone as a preferred customer.Our ValuesIf you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values.

Ours unite us.

They are what drive our success
– and the success of our customers.

Does your heart beat like ours?

Find out here: Core ValuesCheck out Blue Yonder’s blog
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– the platform for supply chain trends and innovations.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.