Financial Operations Analyst Lead - Infrastructure Engineering

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Responsibilities
About the Team
The infrastructure team facilitates the company's rapid growth by constructing and operating hyper-scale datacenters, managing the server fleet's life cycle, offering cloud solutions, and developing various infrastructure services while ensuring their scalability and reliability.

Responsibilities:
In this role, you will collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders involved in infrastructure building, such as cross-functional finance teams, tax teams, legal, commercial, construction, data center operations, platform, engineering, and supply chain teams. Your tasks will include delivering new capacity on schedule and meeting the increasing needs of relevant stakeholders.

- Oversee end-to-end payment and cost-related operational activities, including but not limited to:
a. Payment support:
Validate invoices with internal stakeholders and reconcile and resolve disputes with external parties in a timely manner.
b. Cost accrual:
Manage the end-to-end monthly, quarterly, and annual closings for infrastructure engineering team projects to guarantee the timely and effective delivery of financial reporting and initiatives.
c. Cost analysis and reports:
Analyze cost variance for the infrastructure team by inputting, maintaining, and updating business information on related platforms.
- Assist with budgeting (OPEX and CAPEX) and forecasting activities, conduct budget vs. actual variance analysis, and communicate key messages to senior management teams.
- Work with large volumes of data sources, analyze discrepancies, identify root causes, find solutions, execute fixes, and implement data cleaning.
- Manage and lead multiple data projects related to financial system migration and integration.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with infrastructure stakeholders to understand broader business objectives, jointly develop processes, and offer financial guidance and best practice recommendations to facilitate process changes.
- Evaluate, plan, and implement improvements in processes, practices, and organizational effectiveness.
- Build financial models using historical data and provide forecasts based on various industry-related operating metrics, sensitivity analysis, and scenario analysis to support optimal business decision-making.
- Take charge of cost optimization and cost-saving initiatives, serve as the Project Manager for cost projects and financial operational initiatives of medium to high complexity. Gather requirements, align stakeholders, create and adhere to schedules, provide progress reports, and manage projects to completion.
- Conduct ad-hoc project analyses and respond to questions and business requirements.

Qualifications


Minimum Qualifications
- A BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize projects, and meet tight deadlines.
- Prior experience in the end-to-end payment to cost accrual process.
- Excellent communication skills and willingness and flexibility to work with teammates in different time zones.
- Capability to work both as an individual contributor and a team player.
- Experience using web-based systems for data entry and processing.
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.

Preferred Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in a high growth and fast-paced environment.
- CPA, CMA, CFA, or an equivalent certification.
- Experience in optimizing or designing new and existing processes.
- Experience in the infrastructure, technical, or finance industry is advantageous.
- A strong self-starter with the ability to fully implement mission-critical processes.
- Proficiency in SQL, Tableau, or Power

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About Tik Tok
Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At Tik Tok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Tik Tok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of Tik Tok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users.

When we create and grow together, the possibilities are…