OverviewIn this role, you will be working with some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world developing products that make data faster and safer.
As a Director, youll play a pivotal role in driving our monthly forecasts, annual operating plans, and long-term strategic plans, while strengthening our planning processes and systems. In this full-time role, youll report directly to our VP of Finance. Our Finance team is dedicated to accurate, insightful, and relevant analysis, and your contributions will be instrumental in providing financial guidance and insights to executive leadership.
Rambus offers a flexible work environment, embracing a hybrid approach for most office-based roles. Employees are encouraged to spend an average of at least three days per week onsite, allowing for two days of remote work.
Responsibilities
- Lead financial planning: Drive monthly forecasts, the annual operating plan, and long-term strategic planning, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Deliver financial analysis: Analyze results against plan, forecast, and prior periods; identify key business drivers, risks, and opportunities; and recommend actions.
- Manage consolidated forecasts: Oversee revenue, gross margin, operating expense, and headcount planning, ensuring consistent assumptions across functions.
- Prepare executive and board reporting: Translate financial results and business trends into clear presentations with actionable insights.
- Build automation: Define finance requirements, priorities, reporting dashboards, and business outcomes of automation, partnering with IT, Accounting, and data teams on ERP implementation.
- Support Sales and Operations Planning (SOP): provide financial analysis and planning discipline that connects customer demand, supply availability, and financial performance.
- Strengthen processes and systems: Improve forecast accuracy, planning discipline, reporting efficiency, and data integrity through standardized processes and automation.
- Collaborate with Accounting: Ensure timely, accurate management reporting and a clear understanding of actual results and their implications for future forecasts.
- Support strategic investments: Develop financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate MA opportunities and overall competitive landscape.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. MBA, CPA, CFA, or a related advanced degree or professional certification preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including substantial FPA experience and demonstrated leadership of planning processes and cross-functional initiatives. Experience in the semiconductor, silicon IP, or technology industry, including familiarity with product and licensing business models preferred.
- Proven ability to lead annual operating plans, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial planning in a complex business environment.
- Public-company finance experience, including collaboration with Investor Relations, Accounting, and Legal on earnings materials and external financial communications.
- Experience analyzing peer performance, analyst estimates, industry trends, MA opportunities and strategic investments.
- Experience developing finance teams and implementing planning automation, business intelligence tools, or financial systems enhancements.
- Solid understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and the relationships among operating performance, profitability, and cash flow.
- Experience preparing executive and board presentations, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear insights and recommendations.
- Ability to support quarterly earnings preparation and investor communications through accurate financial analysis, consistent metrics, and clear explanations of business performance.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, including driver-based forecasting, scenario analysis, investment evaluation, and consolidated financial reporting.
Rambus offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, equity, matching 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, comprehensive medical and dental benefits, time-off program, and gym membership.
The US salary range for this full-time position is $177.500 to $329,600. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location. The successful candidates starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location and market conditions.
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