Salesforce

Senior Financial Analyst - Corporate

Salesforce$85K — $110K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Revenue Accounting, or Financial Audit.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience is required.
  • Experience in cross-functional business partnership and collaboration.
  • Proficient in building and maintaining complex financial models.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills for executive-level reporting.
  • Ability to prioritize in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
  • Familiarity with AI tools and willingness to innovate processes.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver an accurate revenue forecast to stakeholders.
  • Conduct topline scenario planning and communicate associated risks and opportunities.
  • Analyze discrepancies between actuals and forecast to identify key drivers.
  • Identify trends or issues and provide actionable recommendations.
  • Prepare revenue reports and impactful presentations for enhanced audience engagement.
  • Collaborate across finance and various business units for cohesive revenue forecasting.
  • Incorporate revenue adjustments into forecasts in partnership with controllership teams.

Benefits

  • Flexible working model with hybrid office attendance.
  • Supportive resources for work-life balance.
  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools to enhance work efficiency.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
  • Engaging workplace culture promoting continuous learning.
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Job Category
Finance

Job Details

Overview of the Role

The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team is responsible for delivering financial predictability and control, business accountability, insight to optimize decisions and resources and shareholder success.

The Corporate F&S team is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Corporate F&S Revenue team focusing on forecasting, metrics and reporting. This role partners closely across F&S, Finance and the Strategy teams. The role requires strong top-line forecasting skills coupled with an internal customer interaction across the broader finance organization. The selected candidate will be responsible for delivering a high degree of forecast accuracy in the company's revenue forecast and effectively communicating the revenue forecast, topline risks and opportunities

Responsibilities:
  • Delivery of an accurate revenue forecast
  • Topline scenario planning, effectively communicating risks & opportunities
  • Analyze actual and forecast variance details to understand drivers
  • Identify trends or issues and turn them into actionable recommendations
  • Revenue reporting and prepare impactful presentations that deliver messages clearly and engages the audience
  • Effectively partner across finance and the business in the composition and delivery of the revenue forecast:
    • Corporate F&S Planning: delivery of the topline forecast to finance leadership
    • Go To Market F&S: Annual Contract Value (ACV) forecast, delivery of revenue & Current Remaining Performance Obligations (cRPO) forecast to Sales leaders
    • Product F&S: product revenue forecast & insights
    • Controllership (Revenue Recognition & Revenue Accounting): effectively incorporate revenue adjustments into the forecast


Required Qualifications:
  • Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis or a combination of Financial Planning & Analysis, Revenue Accounting and/or Financial Audit.
  • Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
  • Business partnership skills and experience working cross-functionally
  • Substantial experience building, maintaining and reviewing complex financial models.
  • Excellent executive communication, reporting, and presentations skills.
  • Ability to manage through ambiguity and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment.
  • Self-starter who can navigate through ambiguity while aligning with business partners.
  • Demonstrated use of AI in daily work.
  • Willingness to challenge the status quo and implement new processes.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Knowledge of software revenue recognition under ASC 606
  • Self-starter who can navigate through ambiguity while aligning with business partners.
  • Systems and tools experience-Snowflake, Tableau, Hyperion, Salesforce CRM, Zuora (RevPro), Microsoft Excel, Google Workspace.
  • Experience with relational database tools and scripting (e.g. SQL) and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI).


This role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week.

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