Senior Financial Analyst, Finance & Strategy

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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 and Business Partner to support our General & Administrative (G&A) Finance team. This role will support the Employee Success Benefits, Office of the CEO, and Global Communications organizations 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

• Build trusted relationships with business partners to support strategic decision-making through insightful, thoughtful analysis that is deeply grounded in data and metrics

• 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 AMER benefits and taxes and become 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.

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