Finance Manager - Engineering R&D

The Commercial Products & Infrastructure (CPI) org is responsible for enabling business decisions to drive revenue, shape capex investments, manage cloud & AI capacity, deliver margin excellence, and ensure ongoing resource allocation aligned to strategic engineering priorities.

• Drive process excellence while partnering across Engineering and Finance to continuously assess portfolio health and understand key drivers to identify opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Analyze results to understand performance against plan/forecast, monitors trends and key levers to support various engineering and finance rhythms.
• Ensure resources and investments are constantly aligned with business strategy, product engineering roadmaps, and company priorities.
• Conduct resource analysis to provide health of business readouts and trends and articulate those findings to finance and leadership to support decision making.
• Communicate business results with clarity and conciseness, incorporating insights through resource allocation, workforce planning as well as understanding the connection between resource allocation with the overall financial performance.
• Support business decision making to drive operating leverage.
• Contribute insights for resource allocation and investment strategy by giving visibility to the current resource landscape and aligning to product strategy.
• Collect customer and partner feedback and assist with data analysis to improve decision support.
• Conduct regular financial reviews to enable faster decision making with timely and accurate reporting.
• Drive effective spend management aligned with company policies, procedures, and priorities in partnership with Engineering and Finance.

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, or related field
• OR equivalent experience

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Generous time away
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Savings and investments
• Discounts on products and services
• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Opportunities to network and connect

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