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About this position:
The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted advisor to the business to help inform and guide decision making through business partner support and innovative and insightful analyses. We are looking for forward-thinking, goal oriented individuals that will succeed in a fast-paced environment and thrive in building and improving processes that will allow the company to scale with growth. The Corporate team runs the Company's short & long term financial planning processes. As a Manager, you will play an integral role leading the short term planning team. This is a high visibility, high impact role where you will interact with senior leadership on a regular basis.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end consolidated forecast/close process & quarterly earnings process, including preparing and presenting the monthly financial update to the CFO & Finance leadership.

• Lead a cross-functional process across Finance to track total company P&L risks & opportunities and deliver updates to the CFO & Finance leadership.

• Own key deliverables for the Company's Board of Directors' deck and the financial leadership and training program for Company executives.

• Support Salesforce's quarterly external guidance process in partnership with IR by providing insights on key guided metrics and trends.

• Build expertise on Salesforce's financial system and partner with F&S business partners and IT on system tactics

• Develop a strong understanding of the Salesforce business model and translate the impact of changes in key inputs on the Company's overall financials

• Manage & professionally develop a Senior Financial Analyst supporting the close consolidations process

• Partner proactively with Revenue, Treasury, Controllership, Tax & other Finance teams during the Company's monthly close and quarterly earnings cycles

• Build & maintain cross functional relationships with the broader F&S team

• Partner with the broader F&S team to develop operational KPIs, create dashboards, identify trends and build the Company's financial narrative.

• Lead ad hoc financial & scenario analysis including but not limited to evaluating total Company strategic spend, external financial statement and expense by type trends, and headcount investments.

• Drive business operational improvements in close processes and deliverables.

• Prepare and present ad hoc presentations for the CFO & Finance leadership.

• Partner and support broader Corporate F&S workstreams including but not limited to Plan & Outlook, long range scenario planning, executive driven ad hoc requests, etc.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Economics, Accounting or related relevant areas

• 5+ years of work experience in analytically demanding financial or strategic services roles

• Strong accounting background with a firm knowledge of financial documents

• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) with an ability to explain complex issues to executive leadership

• Strong financial analysis, forecasting, modeling and planning skills with an ability to turn data into actionable insights

• Ability to deal with a fast moving dynamic environment with high degree of ambiguity and constant change

• Ability to work cross functionally and influence appropriately

• Highly motivated, detail-oriented, self-aware and responsive

• Intellectually curious, motivated by a proactive approach to continuously expand one's skillset

• Experience creating Powerpoint/Google Slide presentations for management

• Experience with financial systems (Hyperion, Tableau, etc.) preferred

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