Description

The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted advisor to the business to help guide decision-making through business partner support and innovative and informative analyses. We are looking for forward-thinking, results-oriented individuals who will succeed in a fast-paced environment and improve processes that will allow the company to scale with growth!

Role Description
Salesforce is seeking an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to support our General & Administrative (G&A) Finance team. This role will support the Employee Success & Recruiting organization through financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and ad hoc analyses. The F&S G&A team is seeking a self-starter who builds thoughtful analysis and reporting to enable budget execution and optimization. This individual will also be an integral player in important cross-functional, organization wide initiatives and projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage consolidated close and forecasts (monthly forecasts, quarterly outlooks, annual plan, and long-range plan) and prepare management reporting by analyzing financial results, distilling key trends, and synthesizing key messages to senior management

• Build deep subject-matter expertise in Employee Success & Recruiting, becoming the “go to” expert on the team

• Work cross functionally with Finance & Strategy, Global Procurement & Sourcing, Controllership, and other business partners

• Drive process improvement and scalability by developing repeatable business, operational and financial processes widely understood by all key stakeholders

• Assist with ad-hoc analysis and requests as needed

Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent and minimum of 3+ years FP&A or relevant work experience. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

• Strong financial and operational planning skills

• Expertise in building financial and decision support models

• Innate ability to understand and predict trends

• Analytical, problem-solving, advanced business acumen mindset

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

• Ability to multi-task effectively, working in team environments or independently

• Intellectual curiosity, fueled by a proactive approach to continuously expand one’s skillset

• Highly motivated, self-aware, collaborative, and responsive

• Strong MS Excel, Hyperion, Workday, Tableau, and Google suite, or other financial and data visualization software

This role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week in Indianapolis, IN or Atlanta, GA.