Manager 3, Financial Planning and Analysis

Job Overview

The Global Business Solutions Group (“GBSG”) is Intuit’s largest business unit with $8B+ in revenue, serving 8M+ customers with the QuickBooks line of products including accounting, payments, payroll, capital lending and banking. The US GBSG Finance team is critical in driving business growth and profitability through strategic, financial and operational leadership.

Responsibilities

Come join Intuit as part of the GBSG Finance team as a Sr. Finance Manager supporting the US Marketing Organization and reporting to the US QuickBooks Accounting, Mid-Market Finance Director. Main responsibilities include:

• Team coaching: Operate in a leader capacity, proactively influencing, leading & coaching within the Finance organization and cross-functional teams. This role will mentor and coach 2-3 financial analysts.
• Strategic planning: Be a trusted advisor to the US Marketing leadership team to develop and refine our 1- and 3-year strategic plans, proactively highlighting risk and opportunities related to business growth and drive optimal investment decisions through data-driven insights and business modeling expertise.
• Operational Excellence: Partner with the Marketing and Analytics teams to develop and monitor key performance indicators to drive insights and decision making in order to achieve our strategic and financial plans
• Modeling: Create financial models to analyze complex business scenarios that drive and inform our go-to-market strategy (e.g. marketing investments and ROI)
• Financial reporting: Prepare financial reporting deliverables (month-end close package, variance explanation,...) to enable transparency into the business’s performance and drivers. Liaise with the Accounting team and cross-functional business partners to ensure correct accounting treatment of transactional activities.
• Process improvement: Drive efficiencies and continuous improvement by streamlining, standardizing and automating processes and reporting requirements

Qualifications

You are a seasoned finance leader, with strong analytical and modeling skills. You also have demonstrable experience of acting as a business partner, supporting and challenging non-finance stakeholders. As this role involves constant interaction with senior non-finance stakeholders across the business, you need the confidence and emotional intelligence to effectively communicate at all levels. The ideal candidate has worked in the high-tech industry and enjoys operating in an extremely fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

• 10+ years of experience, including 1+ years of supervisory responsibility
• Experience in FP&A, management consulting or investment banking or similar roles
• Ability to lead teams to deliver exceptional results and drive business growth
• Ability to influence all levels of leadership to drive actions, behaviors, decisions and business outcomes
• Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Excel to analyze complex business scenarios by building/improving financial models.
• Highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work independently in a fast paced environment, simultaneously manage several priorities, and challenge the status quo to lead change and operational improvements.
• Attention to details and ability to synthesize large volumes of data into insightful recommendations to the executive leadership team.
• Grace under pressure with a good sense of humor and dose of humility
• Strong accounting knowledge especially in a software/SaaS environment
• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience in presenting to business partners with confidence, conviction, and credibility
• Experience with SaaS/Cloud Computing business models a plus, MBA a plus