VIAVI Solutions

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Act as a strategic and financial business partner for the business unit, proactively providing decision-making support, business analytics, financial insights and data-driven recommendations
• Develop annual plans, quarterly forecast, monthly and quarterly spend & headcount trackers, and provide detailed variance analysis to leadership.
• Provide business leadership with key financial metrics, full P&L insights, and ad-hoc financial modeling.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning.
• Support the Senior Vice-President of Global Sales by delivering strategic insights through cross-functional financial reviews and operational analysis.
• Continuous search for efficiencies and identifying improvement opportunities for margin expansion, productivity gains and cash enablement.
• Review and approve requisitions following corporate governance policies.
• Track monthly actual spend and investments, and partner with the business to achieve the financial goals, through KPI’s, forward looking visibility, timely actions development and others.

Senior Finance Business Strategic Partner

Project Manager

• Lead the Operations elements of the NPI process from project initiation through production launch, first customer shipment, and into volume production
• Represent Operations on the cross functional NPI project team
• Drive integrated project planning to establish work commitments and dependencies between Operations and other functions
• Lead the Operations team to execute to the requirements of the Product Development Process (PDP), including functional deliverables to support project goals
• Drive Operations execution to plan including: Alignment and documentation of project goals and metrics, Project resourcing, Management of work commitments across the Operations team, ensuring required deliverables are completed on time, Project expense (capital and operational) forecasting and performance to plan, Capacity planning and production ramp planning
• Coordinate and manage a diverse operations team, including test engineering, manufacturing engineering, and supply chain; coordinate requirements and deliverables across the extended internal (R&D, product line management, service, finance, etc.) and external (contract manufacturer, suppliers, etc.) team
• Ensure manufacturing requirements for production launch and ramp, at either a VIAVI or a CM factory, are met during the NPI process
• Drive Supply Chain and manufacturing process development concurrently with product development
• Proactively identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and resolve issues that arise during the NPI process to keep projects on track
• Provide clear and regular communication to stakeholders and senior leadership on project status, progress against milestones, and resource utilization
• Conduct post-mortem analysis of completed projects to identify lessons learned and drive continuous improvement in NPI processes and tools.

Senior Finance Business Strategic Partner

Project Manager – Operations, New Product Introduction