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Our team partners directly with senior VMware executives to develop long-term strategy and execution plans, and operationalize these plans through financial budgeting across the company – vSphere, NSX, vRealize, vSAN, Horizon, vCloud Air Network, AirWatch and others. Working closely with finance, engineering, product management, product planning, marketing and corporate development, our team has a unique opportunity to help chart the future direction of VMware.
We provide a challenging and rewarding work environment where strategic, financial, project management and presentation skills are valued and learned. This position involves significant interaction with executives and requires the ability to not only complete rigor analysis, but communicate it clearly.
Our team philosophy is that individuals with high potential learn the quickest and enjoy themselves the most when their abilities are stretched. Our team style is highly collaborative, as each team member works on multiple projects at once, with multiple team members as well as v-teams that span the company. It is an exciting, fast-paced group that ensures senior-level interaction and impactful projects.
Principal Responsibilities
• Assist with senior management’s efforts to maintain a credible, implementable, and sustainable business strategy that creates superior value for VMware.
• Creates and directs the strategic planning process across VMware, including external landscape, internal assessment, prioritization, field alignment and cross-BU portfolio planning
• Help manage the VMware product portfolio and provide frameworks for decisions that affect investments, prioritization and trade-offs
• Orchestrate the translation of strategy into a company-wide financial plan covering the full P&L.
• Lead the creation of key financial planning deliverables including revenue planning, spend planning, company headcount cost bow-wave, capex planning, and financial trade-offs.
• Drive the operationalization of the company-wide financial plan to create and track budgets by function through process and planning system.
• Preparation of senior management and Board of Director materials to gain approval and support of the strategic and financial plans.
• Support annual business reviews and tactical initiatives that cut across multiple VMware groups, identify opportunities for growth, and evolve strategic thinking on the future of VMware’s product portfolio
• Work with the key business leaders across the company to assist in the strategy development for both existing and nascent areas
• Acquire a deep understanding of VMware’s business today, and keen insights into where it is going in the future allowing for innovative concepts and promoting new ideas
Qualifications
• 10 to 15 years of related experience in a senior financial role in a comparable or larger sized public, technology based, growth business
• Self-starter with strong financial, business modeling and analysis skills; sound business judgment
• Ability to work independently across multiple groups in a rapidly changing environment
• Solid project management capabilities; able to work under deadlines to produce key deliverables
• Ability to provide sound business judgment, strategic thinking, and broad financial and business perspective across the organization
• Outstanding financial acumen blended with business partnership and leadership
• Confidence and presence collaborating with and presenting to executive staff
• Ability to sort through complex issues, translate and communicate them in a clear, concise manner and develop appropriate solutions in a timely and responsive manner
• Ability to credibly achieve results through influence and persuasion
• Ability to challenge norms and processes and relentlessly looks for ways to add value and to position the organization for success
Education
An undergraduate degree is required; an advanced degree is desirable.
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