Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted adviser to the business to help guide decision-making through business partner support and innovative and insightful analyses. We are looking for forward-thinking, results-oriented individuals that will succeed in a fast-paced environment and thrive in leading teams, and improve processes that will allow the company to scale with growth! Role Description The Manager role focuses on providing extensive business partnering and financial support to the Real Estate organization. The successful candidate will collaborate across Real Estate, Accounting, Procurement, and F&S teams to manage financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and decision support for Real Estate leadership. This position requires strong analytical capabilities, a consistent focus on efficiency, and close attention to detail. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to conduct in-depth analysis, communicate clearly and concisely, and take ownership of processes from end to end. Responsibilities Forecast & Close Leadership: Lead the end-to-end annual planning process and own monthly/quarterly forecast and close processes for real estate, ensuring high-accuracy deliverables and data integrity while optimizing processes for scale and efficiency. Strategic Business Partnering: Serve as the primary finance lead for Real Estate leadership, proving the critical insights needed to influence investment decisions and prioritization. Scenario & Sensitivity Modeling: Develop sophisticated financial and sensitivity models that account for macroeconomic shifts and internal initiatives, providing leadership with a clear map of potential financial outcomes. Strategic Initiatives: Act as a key finance partner to the Real Estate organization, applying financial rigor and data-driven insights to support the execution of high-priority strategic programs. Performance Metrics: Define and drive the KPIs that measure real estate investment health, ensuring our global portfolio remains perfectly aligned with our long-term real estate strategy. Executive Communication: Distill complex financial datasets into high-impact narratives and management reporting, delivering actionable insights to senior executives. Leadership & Mentorship: Elevate the team by providing guidance and indirect leadership to junior analysts, fostering a culture of analytical excellence and continuous improvement. Ad Hoc Projects: Drive critical special projects, including M&A activity and integration, long-range planning (LRP) collaboration, and vendor consolidation initiatives and partnerships. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics or other relevant discipline or equivalent 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.) 5+ years of work experience in financial planning and analysis or a similar role with a strong emphasis on analytical rigor and strategic decision support. Real estate transactions or lease accounting experience a plus. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to partner with diverse stakeholders to achieve alignment, drive results and present outcomes. Experience building financial and decision support models, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to adapt and handle a fast moving dynamic environment with high degree of ambiguity and constant change. Ability to collaborate cross functionally and influence appropriately. Intellectual curiosity, fueled by a proactive approach to continuously expand one’s skillset. Ability to think strategically and operate effectively with management. Proficiency with financial systems; in particular enterprise grade ERP, Planning & Analysis, and BI systems. Highly motivated, proactive, self-aware, collaborative, flexible, responsive. This role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week. #J-18808-Ljbffr Salesforce, Inc..