Salesforce

Sr. Analyst, Corporate

Salesforce$94K — $142K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent with 2 - 4+ years in FP&A, Accounting, Analytics, or Management Consulting
  • Strong foundation in FP&A and in-depth knowledge of financial statements
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for conveying complex ideas
  • Collaborative team player with the ability to influence across all organization levels
  • Proficient in financial modeling using Excel or Google Sheets
  • Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and responsive to feedback
  • Experience with creating presentations in PowerPoint or Google Slides

Responsibilities

  • Support consolidated forecast and close processes, including monthly financial updates to leadership
  • Track total company P&L risks and opportunities for Finance leadership
  • Contribute to finance deliverables for executive leadership updates and training programs
  • Assist in quarterly external guidance processes in partnership with Investor Relations
  • Build knowledge of Salesforce's financial systems and collaborate with IT on system tactics
  • Analyze how changes in key inputs impact the company's financial performance
  • Foster relationships with various Finance teams during monthly close and quarterly earnings cycles
  • Collaborate with the F&S team to create KPIs and dashboards, identify trends, and craft financial narratives
  • Conduct ad hoc financial analyses on strategic spending, expense trends, and headcount investments
  • Drive improvements in operational processes related to financial closing
  • Prepare and present insights to the F&S team
  • Support broader Corporate F&S initiatives like long-range planning and ad hoc executive requests

Benefits

  • Comprehensive support for personal and professional balance
  • Resources to foster a productive work/life balance
  • Innovative AI tools to enhance productivity
  • Career development opportunities within a supportive company culture
  • A chance to work on impactful projects with high visibility and senior leadership interaction
Full Job Description
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Job Category
Finance

Job Details

About this position:
The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted adviser to the business to help guide decision-making through business partner support and innovative and insightful analyses. We are looking for forward-thinking, driven individuals that will succeed in a fast-paced environment and thrive in leading teams, and improve processes that will allow the company to scale with growth!

The Corporate team runs the close consolidations, topline metrics, and the company's short & long term financial planning processes. As a Sr. Analyst, you will play an integral role supporting the monthly close and forecast consolidations for our total company reporting. This is a high visibility, high impact role where you will interact with senior leadership on a regular basis.

Responsibilities:
  • Support the end-to-end consolidated forecast/close process & quarterly earnings process, including preparing the monthly financial update to the COFO & Finance leadership.
  • Support a cross-functional process across Finance to track total company P&L risks & opportunities and deliver updates to the COFO & Finance leadership.
  • Support key deliverables for finance updates to the ELT and training program for Company executives.
  • Support Salesforce's quarterly external guidance process in partnership with IR by providing insights on key guided metrics and trends.
  • Build expertise on Salesforce's financial system and partner with F&S business partners and IT on system tactics
  • Develop a strong understanding of the Salesforce business model and translate the impact of changes in key inputs on the Company's overall financials
  • Partner proactively with Revenue, Treasury, Controllership, Tax & other Finance teams during the Company's monthly close and quarterly earnings cycles
  • Build & maintain cross functional relationships with the broader F&S team
  • Partner with the broader F&S team to develop operational KPIs, create dashboards, identify trends and build the Company's financial narrative.
  • Lead ad hoc financial & scenario analysis including but not limited to evaluating total Company strategic spend, external financial statement and expense by type trends, and headcount investments.
  • Drive business operational improvements in close processes and deliverables.
  • Prepare and present presentations to the broader F&S team
  • Partner and support broader Corporate F&S workstreams including but not limited to Plan & Outlook, long range scenario planning, executive driven ad hoc requests, etc.


Required Skills/Experience:
  • BA/BS degree or equivalent and 2 - 4+ years related experience in FP&A, Accounting, Analytics, or Management Consulting
  • Foundational FP&A experience required with a deep knowledge of financial statements
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to explain complex issues in an understandable way
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with competing priorities and influence at all levels within the organization
  • Advanced skill with financial modeling in Excel or GSheets
  • Highly motivated, detail oriented, self-aware and responsive
  • Experience creating PowerPoint/Google Slide presentations for management.


Desired Skills/Experience:
  • High tech or software industry experience preferred
  • Experience with multi-dimensional databases, e.g. Hyperion or other financial systems
  • Tableau, SQL, R experience preferred
  • Proven process-improvement track record


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