Finance Manager, WW Operations Working Capital & Free Cash Flow

Key job responsibilities

• Own end-to-end planning, forecasting, reporting, and controllership of worldwide operations working capital and free cash flow, holding accuracy and timeliness to a senior-leader-review standard.
• Author the free cash flow and working capital review documents presented to senior leadership, drive those reviews directly, and translate complex cash movements into clear narratives and recommendations.
• Own cash capital expenditure forecasting for worldwide operations, partnering with regional finance, supply chain, and treasury teams to phase spend accurately and close methodology gaps that affect the reported cash position.
• Drive automation and process improvement across the forecasting and reporting framework, including science-based forecasting approaches, and partner with shared services to scale mature work streams.
• Identify incomplete or inaccurate data, determine root causes, implement escalation plans, and make sound judgment calls in ambiguous environments where data is difficult to procure.
• Influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners outside the direct reporting line, and mentor and develop analysts as the team scales.

You start the day reviewing worldwide cash flow and working capital performance, flagging where the forecast is moving and why. You spend part of the morning aligning a regional partner on an inventory or payables assumption, then translate it into a crisp recommendation for an upcoming senior leadership review. In the afternoon you pressure-test a cash capital expenditure phasing question with a regional team, work with a partner to harden a forecasting mechanism so the reporting cycle runs cleanly, and coach an analyst through a variance analysis.

Throughout, you are deciding what matters, holding controllership, and shaping the cash narrative leaders rely on.

As part of the WW Operations FP&A team, you will join a collaborative and knowledgeable group that is passionate about numbers, data, and how to use them to generate insight and improve the business. We are the trusted business advisors who earn trust through accurate, reliable financial insight, and we work in a supportive environment where expertise is shared freely and Invent and Simplify is highly encouraged.

The working capital and free cash flow workstream sits at the center of governance and executive cash narrative for worldwide operations, giving this role direct exposure to the most senior finance and operations leaders.

• Autonomy to innovate: deliver new approaches that improve the accuracy and efficiency of a major cash flow position
• Executive exposure: recurring engagement with senior leaders through cash flow reviews
• Diverse collaboration: partner with regional finance, supply chain, treasury, corporate finance, and investor relations
• Career development: build people leadership and center-of-excellence scope over time

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• Experience using complex financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to inform strategic…