Financial Planning and Analysis- Senior Manager

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The Finance Organization

At Verizon, we are building a world-class Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization. As we continue to transform the finance organization, we are improving the capital planning processes, enhancing systems, realigning the organization, and adding opportunities for personal skill-building and professional growth. We're finding new ways to add value and provide strategic support. This is the kind of work we do. We want to continue to build leading FP&A practices within Verizon, setting the stage to become the place any FP&A professional wants to work. In this role, you can become a catalyst for change.

Corporate FP&A Team - Business Partnering and Governance

Move beyond reacting to change and help drive and manage it. This role will be part of the Corporate Capital FP&A Capital Planning, Transformation, and Reporting team. As a Sr Manager - Business Partnering and Governance, you have the opportunity to drive better business partnering and leadership insights, and maintain governance processes over your area of responsibility, while growing your leadership and interpersonal skills. You are considered a business partner and your contributions will make a difference. You will be the lead for the governance submissions and outputs for your respective business units (BU).

This role includes the following responsibilities:

• Assessing BU capital requirements, developing capital insights and providing recommendations on capital allocation.

• Communicating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels of the business through effective framing and syndication of analysis performed on major programs.

• Problem-solving complex business case analysis and determining levers and trade-off options.

• Trusted business partnering, working alongside the BU FP&A teams to monitor the development of business cases and capital plans.

• Assessing the impact of strategic financial decisions across BU's and presenting to leadership; monitoring program results & metrics and understanding impact to overall capital investments.

• Designing, developing and implementing methods and strategies to continually improve processes and capital decision making for major strategic initiatives.

• Supporting business units and preparing for Governance (senior executive) review and decision making.

• Creating Governance materials to summarize BU submissions for executive review.

• Ensuring the reasonableness and completeness of business cases, support development of consistent business case quality and accurate operational and financial metrics reporting.

• Interpreting and evaluating periodic analyses of business trends, including budget variance of financial results and Key Performance Indicators to identify areas of risk and opportunities and providing recommendations.

• Reviewing submissions in DCAT (planning & reporting platform) to verify allocation versus Target letters.

• Providing support to BU leadership to enable capital planning processes, stress test business cases to evaluate ROI, capital deep dives where needed to validate benefit / cost estimates, and work with initiative owners to refine estimates as required.

• Assisting in the periodic reporting process for capital results.

• Being a change agent and designing, developing, and implementing methods and strategies to continually improve processes.

• Developing new analysis techniques and new visuals to driving better understanding.

• Projecting Manage key initiatives related to capital expenditures and driving execution of key deliverables.

• Presenting, making recommendations, and communicating to all levels of the business, assessing the impact of strategic financial decisions and presenting recommendations to leadership.

What we're looking for...

You'll need to have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or six or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Knowledge of analytics and financial /operational performance abilities with a high degree of analytical capability with the demonstrated ability to structure business cases around a high-level strategic vision.

• Ability to work independently and within a team in a fast changing environment with changing priorities and changing time constraints, and ability to lead and influence cross functional teams.

• Ability to interpret business requests and communicate findings effectively.

• Project management experience.

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite and Google Suite with proven focus on Excel/Sheets and Powerpoint/Slides.

• Experience with Data Visualization, particularly creating dashboards and executive reporting (Qlik, Tableau, or other).

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A Master's in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or Economics.

• Experience in the technology and/or telecommunications industry.

• A professional certification (e.g. CPA, CMA).

• A strategic mindset and problem solving skills.

• Investment optimization, data analytics and/or digital finance experience.

• Financial modeling experience.

• Experience developing business cases and determining the Total Cost of Ownership.

• Demonstrated in depth understanding of common business and cost drivers, financial statement analysis, and deep-dive analysis.

• Strong strategic skills, with the proven ability to identify and assess key points, implications and recommendations.

• An advanced understanding of corporate financial planning, reporting & analysis, and costing/profitability methodologies and processes.

• Change management experience.

• Demonstrated experience in continuous improvement initiatives, root cause analysis and project management.

• Experience leading large and complex team projects with minimal supervision.

• Process design and implementation experience.

• The ability to understand and manage social systems and influence / manage stakeholders.

• Ability to effectively bring change / challenger mindset.

• Executive presence and presentation experience.

• Proficiency in Qlik, Tableau, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Essbase, Smart View.

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) knowledge, such as SAP.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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