Senior Manager, Opex Consolidation

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart. The Opportunity We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Manager, Worldwide GTM Finance to lead our global operating expense forecasting, consolidation, and financial modeling infrastructure. In this role, you will own the end-to-end global roll-up of operating expenses across the sales organization, design scalable driver-based planning models, and translate complex spend trends into clear, board-ready executive summaries.

You will challenge the status quo, streamline manual processes, and act as a trusted strategic advisor on cost visibility, investment decisions, and profitable growth.

About the Team You will join the WW GTM Finance team, a tight-knit, fast-moving, and highly collaborative group. We partner across Theater Finance (AMER, EMEA, APAC), Corporate FP&A, HR/People, Procurement, IT, Marketing, and sales leadership to deliver strategic insights, disciplined expense management, and informed resource-allocation decisions. Our team culture is high-energy, hardworking, and focused on enabling business growth through financial excellence.

Your Role Operating Expense Planning & Consolidation Global Opex Consolidation:
Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation of operating expenses across the worldwide sales organization, ensuring completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery.

Driver-Based Planning:
Build and maintain scalable expense models covering headcount, compensation, commissions, travel and entertainment, programs, facilities, and other discretionary spend.

Long-Range Planning:
Maintain operating expense plans with clear articulation of risks, opportunities, and key spend drivers relative to the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), forecast, and long-range plan.

Model Governance:
Serve as the modeling expert on the team, ensuring Excel-based models are formulaically sound, auditable, scalable, and aligned to approved planning assumptions.

Close, Forecast & Executive Reporting Executive Packages:
Develop and compile high-impact summaries and slides for close, forecast, AOP, and strategic reviews with sales and finance leadership.

Opex KPI Management:
Establish and manage reporting for headcount, cost per seller, spend by function and theater, program spend, and run-rate performance versus plan.

Variance Analysis:
Provide deep-dive commentary comparing actual operating expense performance to the AOP, forecast, and prior-year results; identify root causes, risks, and recommended actions.

Special Projects & Ad-Hoc Support Hiring Manager's Go-To:
Act as the first point of contact for the GTM Finance Sr. Director on ad-hoc requests, strategic queries, expense deep-dives, and cross-functional analyses.

Project Management:
Project manage key strategic initiatives and high-priority finance projects across the team, ensuring cross-functional alignment and timely delivery of expense-management and planning deliverables.

Cross-Functional Bridge:
Lead cross-functional alignment projects across Sales, Finance, HR/People, Procurement, IT, and other partner organizations to improve cost visibility, strengthen accountability, and unblock strategic programs.

What You Will Bring

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related fields; MBA, CPA, or CFA is highly preferred.

Experience:

8-10+ years of progressive FP&A or Sales Finance experience, ideally within a high-growth SaaS or enterprise software company, with demonstrated experience in operating expense planning and consolidation.

Technical Mastery:
Expert-level financial modeling in Microsoft Excel, with strong experience using enterprise planning, reporting, and visualization tools.

AI & Automation Acumen:
Experience applying generative AI, machine learning, or automation to financial planning, forecasting, expense analysis, reporting, or process improvement is preferred.

Opex & FP&A Acumen:
Deep understanding of operating expense drivers, headcount planning, annual operating plans, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocation, and management reporting.

Communication Excellence:
Proven ability to distill complex, multi-million-dollar expense datasets into concise executive-level narratives and presentations.

Priority Management:
Ability to manage multiple priority timelines, iterate models rapidly, and thrive within a matrixed, global organization.

Work Arrangement Hybrid:
This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person…