Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis
Experian
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $133,109 - $239,596 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead and inspire a global team of finance professionals to grow capacity, deepen analytical insights, and enhance reporting
- Oversee the end-to-end Capex planning process, including annual budget, long-range planning, and ongoing forecasts, ensuring agreement on priorities
- Partner with Technology and Product to prioritize the Capex portfolio and improve investment allocation within the approved envelope
- Monitor investment performance against approved business cases and deliver rigorous post-investment analysis
- Lead review of complex business cases (NPV, IRR, payback, and scenario analysis)
- Help measure financial benefits, cost efficiencies, and revenue enablement
- Support executive level presentations with decision-ready insights
- Stress test assumptions and identify risks, providing leaders with recommendations
- Use advanced analytics and GenAI tools to enhance modeling efficiency, scenario planning, and insight generation
- Lead the annual budgeting, long-range planning, and forecast processes
- Identify trends, risks, and cost optimization opportunities, elevating the quality of insights
- Analyze the drivers of Technology including variance driver analysis against prior periods, budget, and forecast
- Lead monthly operating reviews with senior leadership, providing clear, data-driven recommendations
- Strengthen financial governance across the portfolio, including initiative tracking, adherence to capitalization policies, and disciplined benefit realization monitoring
- Partner with Accounting to ensure appropriate capitalization treatment, policy compliance, and audit readiness
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 8+ years of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, or related analytical roles, with demonstrated impact in complex, matrixed organizations
- Experience providing financial planning support to technology teams (i.e. cybersecurity, digital product, software engineering, virtual infrastructure)
- History of translating complex financial and operational data into concise, impactful insights for senior leadership
- Experience identifying trends, risks, and opportunities that drive revenue growth, margin expansion, cost optimization, and capital allocation decisions
- Advanced financial modeling expertise, including scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and long-range strategic planning
- History of making data-informed recommendations even with incomplete information
- Experience working in cloud-based data environments
- Experience applying automation, advanced analytics, or AI-enabled tools to enhance forecasting, reporting, and decision support capabilities
- History of overseeing programs end-to-end and delivering outcomes
- Experience improving scalable solutions across finance
- Advanced proficiency in Excel required; experience with business intelligence tools and financial systems (e.g., Tableau, Oracle, Hyperion)
Benefits
- Great compensation package and bonus plan
- Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
- Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
- Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingscenario planningsensitivity analysisbudgetingforecastingcost optimizationcapital allocationdata analysisinvestment performance analysisfinancial governance
Soft Skills
leadershipanalytical insightscommunicationdecision-makingrisk identificationcollaborationpresentation skillsproblem-solvingstrategic thinkinginfluencing