Director Sales Finance Public Sector VMware New York

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VMware has an opportunity for a Director to join our WW Field Finance team in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with Executive and other Management on strategic and operational prioritization by performing appropriate financial analysis.

Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic and growth initiatives and influence business decisions of business leaders via in-depth analysis. Take the lead to develop broad solutions and approaches that result in being accepted by global teams as standard.
• Define, design and maintain the Geo margin framework to be used to semi-annual budget process and ongoing tracking/reporting. Work with Geo leads to drive and ensure global adoption and consistency.
• Serve as an advisor on WW Field Finance organization’s financial, budgeting, and administrative processes, with an eye to continuously developing and improving systems. Act as a liaison between WW Field Finance team and Corporate Finance, Accounting and System teams to oversee and implement the required changes. Refine and implement new internal financial processes as necessary to facilitate the company’s growth and business needs
• Motivate, lead and help manage the junior team members
• Owner of annual budgeting process of top line bookings. Lead the coordination and delivery of bookings planning model. Work closely with R&D/Geo Sales/Finance team to define and maintain the product hierarchy view to support Bookings planning. Be comfortable in building a review deck for company executives to interlock on the top line plan numbers for VMWare
• Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting, and long term strategic planning process for each functional area within customer operation organization for all operating expense and headcount
• Manage, consolidate, examine expense and ensure proper and timely month-end close for all departments across customer operation organization
• Responsible for monthly and quarterly flux analysis: Understand inputs from various FP&A partners to develop the flux analysis for management team and to support corporate activities. Understand the business reasons for year over year, quarter over quarter changes. Provide analytical support to upper management to support key decision making
• Responsible for any M&A financial allocation for customer operation organization, and represent field FP&A for dual diligence
• Ad hoc investment analysis and financial support. For the planning process, build the investment review templates and analyze the submitted investments for ROI

Qualifications and Education Requirements:
• Minimum 10 years of relevant financial analysis/business analysis experience
• Excellent communication skill, and strong initiative and desire to work in a team-oriented environment
• Ability to work independent in a fast paced environment and tolerate ambiguity
• Strong organizational, problem solving and analytical skills. Proficiency in computer-based analysis and complex financial modeling
• Strength in researching, understanding and succinctly explaining complex transactions and business impact
• Ability to drive process based improvement across functions and within Finance
• Capable of independently managing multiple tasks in a highly deadline driven environment with a high level of precision
• Software industry experience is preferred
• B.A. or B.S. in Business, Finance, or Accounting; a MBA, or CPA is preferred

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