We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Manager, Worldwide GTM Finance to lead our global operating expense forecasting, consolidation, and financial modeling infrastructure. In this role, you will own the end-to-end global roll-up of operating expenses across the sales organization, design scalable driver-based planning models, and translate complex spend trends into clear, board-ready executive summaries. You will challenge the status quo, streamline manual processes, and act as a trusted strategic advisor on cost visibility, investment decisions, and profitable growth.
About the Team You will join the WW GTM Finance team, a tight-knit, fast-moving, and highly collaborative group. We partner across Theater Finance (AMER, EMEA, APAC), Corporate FP&A, HR/People, Procurement, IT, Marketing, and sales leadership to deliver strategic insights, disciplined expense management, and informed resource-allocation decisions. Our team culture is high-energy, hardworking, and focused on enabling business growth through financial excellence.
Your Role Operating Expense Planning & Consolidation- Global Opex Consolidation: Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation of operating expenses across the worldwide sales organization, ensuring completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery.
- Driver-Based Planning: Build and maintain scalable expense models covering headcount, compensation, commissions, travel and entertainment, programs, facilities, and other discretionary spend.
- Long-Range Planning: Maintain operating expense plans with clear articulation of risks, opportunities, and key spend drivers relative to the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), forecast, and long-range plan.
- Model Governance: Serve as the modeling expert on the team, ensuring Excel-based models are formulaically sound, auditable, scalable, and aligned to approved planning assumptions.
Close, Forecast & Executive Reporting- Executive Packages: Develop and compile high-impact summaries and slides for close, forecast, AOP, and strategic reviews with sales and finance leadership.
- Opex KPI Management: Establish and manage reporting for headcount, cost per seller, spend by function and theater, program spend, and run-rate performance versus plan.
- Variance Analysis: Provide deep-dive commentary comparing actual operating expense performance to the AOP, forecast, and prior-year results; identify root causes, risks, and recommended actions.
Special Projects & Ad-Hoc Support- Hiring Manager's Go-To: Act as the first point of contact for the GTM Finance Sr. Director on ad-hoc requests, strategic queries, expense deep-dives, and cross-functional analyses.
- Project Management: Project manage key strategic initiatives and high-priority finance projects across the team, ensuring cross-functional alignment and timely delivery of expense-management and planning deliverables.
- Cross-Functional Bridge: Lead cross-functional alignment projects across Sales, Finance, HR/People, Procurement, IT, and other partner organizations to improve cost visibility, strengthen accountability, and unblock strategic programs.
What You Will Bring - Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related fields; MBA, CPA, or CFA is highly preferred.
- Experience: 8-10+ years of progressive FP&A or Sales Finance experience, ideally within a high-growth SaaS or enterprise software company, with demonstrated experience in operating expense planning and consolidation.
- Technical Mastery: Expert-level financial modeling in Microsoft Excel, with strong experience using enterprise planning, reporting, and visualization tools.
AI & Automation Acumen: Experience applying generative AI, machine learning, or automation to financial planning, forecasting, expense analysis, reporting, or process improvement is preferred.
- Opex & FP&A Acumen: Deep understanding of operating expense drivers, headcount planning, annual operating plans, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocation, and management reporting.
- Communication Excellence: Proven ability to distill complex, multi-million-dollar expense datasets into concise executive-level narratives and presentations.
- Priority Management: Ability to manage multiple priority timelines, iterate models rapidly, and thrive within a matrixed, global organization.
Work Arrangement Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. For most roles, that will mean coming into an office a minimum of 2 - 3 days per week, however certain roles and/or teams may require more frequent in-office presence. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between USD $202,000 and USD $302,000 per year.
However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. Our application deadline is 40 days from the date of posting. In good faith, the posting may be removed prior to this date if the position is filled or extended in good faith.
