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Job Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate FP&A will lead long-term enterprise-wide profit and loss statement planning. In that capacity, you will work across businesses and functional organizations to develop multi-year financial outlooks that align with the company's strategic priorities. This role is also responsible for managing the annual financial planning cycle and for preparing market, competitive, and financial content for reviews with company leadership. This position will also be responsible for the execution of short-term and long-term balance sheet and statement of cash flow planning. This role offers an exciting view of the entire enterprise, exposure to all facets of NetApp's growth strategy, and engagement with multiple stakeholders. As such, it requires a mix of executive-level engagement, data analysis, process optimization, and business partnering.

This role is part of a high-performance, results-oriented team that is centered on providing world-class decision support to drive profitable growth and exceptional shareholder value. Job responsibilities range from the strategic to the operational, including efficient execution of planning cycles, development of new and enhanced analytics, and the standardization of information to enhance executive messaging. You should be able to apply a breadth of tools, data sources, and analytical techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and be able to present the insights concisely and effectively. Additionally, you should be capable of independently driving issues to resolution, excel at extracting insights from data, and converting ideas to action. This is a high-impact role that directly affects executive-level decision-making, execution of the company's strategy, and achievement of the company's financial objectives.

Your Impact
• Execution of long-term financial planning cycles, including cross-business and cross-functional communication of deadlines and deliverables and system data loading and consolidation responsibilities
• Creation of executive-level presentations that summarize profit and loss statement forecasts-including year-over-year comparisons, key dependencies, and risks and opportunities-for the CFO, the CEO, the board of directors, and external security analyst meetings
• Development and execution of balance sheet and statement of cash flow planning.
• Creation and maintenance of financial models to support multi-year P&L scenario modeling and ad-hoc analyses in support of executive decision-making
• Drive financial model, system, and process improvement initiatives that impact profit and loss planning globally

Job Requirements
• First level university degree with a focus on business or economics; advanced degree or accounting certification (e.g. CPA or MBA) preferred
• 7-10 years of experience as a financial analyst or finance lead
• Previous business finance and / or financial planning and analysis experience
• Previous experience building financial forecast models (e.g. business profit and loss models, product pricing models, revenue forecast models, new product investment models, and / or headcount planning models, etc.)
• Foundational knowledge of accounting principles and financial statements
• Strong presentation skills, especially related to the creation and communication of executive-level content in PowerPoint
• Excellent business acumen-with an understanding of operational drivers of revenue, gross margin dollars, and operating expenses
• Detail-orientation with the ability to self-correct and to identify opportunities for process improvements and enhanced analytics with minimal oversight
• Experience with Cloud Hyperion Planning and / or the utilization of other business intelligence / data warehouse / planning applications