Financial Analysis Lead

Logistics Finance Business Manager

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Salary: $ – $

• Act as the primary finance business partner for Worldwide Manufacturing Logistics Operations in Asia
• Partner with Logistics stakeholders on Warehouse, Freight and Crating strategies, providing financial insights, cost modeling, ROI considerations and risk assessments to guide decision‑making
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners to identify and drive cost‑improvement initiatives
• Navigate differing stakeholder perspectives and facilitate discussions toward mutually beneficial outcomes
• Act as a bridge between Operations and the broader Finance teams, to ensure alignment on compliance to processes and controls
• Evaluate Operational requirements and determine types of cross‑functional support and engagements required to allow for successful implementation
• Synthesize complex information and identify critical factors that materially impact decision making

• Manage quarterly and yearly budgeting and forecasting cycles
• Review and validate actual spend against forecast, investigate variances and provide actionable insights on areas of improvement
  
  Provide guidance on financial processes, controls and accounting treatment
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver regular analysis and insights on key cost drivers to support stakeholders in meeting their cost targets
• Proactively improve on data and cost visibility to enable stakeholders in making more informed financial decisions

• Ensure adherence to inventory processes, cycle count policies and internal controls
• Monitor and review cycle count results and elevate discrepancies or emerging risks
• Lead quarterly inventory counts and manage internal and external audit requirements and resolve audit inquiries

• Able to analyze trends and identify opportunities to reduce the necessity for inquiries
• Able to analyze trends and identify opportunities to improve self‑service tools
• Able to improve support model design to meet changing needs of the stakeholders

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in finance management
• Experience with SAP
• Proficient with Advanced Excel techniques and visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI)

• Time Type:
  Full time
• Employee Type:
  Assignee / Regular
• Travel:
  Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Eligible:
  Yes

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

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