Financial Analyst

Own Every Moment at Net App At Net App, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Own Every Moment at Net App At Net App, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, Net App is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

As a Financial Analyst for the Revenue Operations and Margin FP&A team, you will be responsible for providing financial support and analysis for the company-wide Revenue and Margin forecasting, planning, and reviews. You will perform research and financial modeling to help future business planning decisions, and summarize and present findings to leadership, including C-Staff. You will interface with cross-functional teams and have an opportunity to contribute to various business challenges.

The position requires business partnership with Operations, Sales Operations, Revenue Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, Finance, and ERDM teams in analyzing and shaping Net App’s revenue, margin and cash forecasts and related operational management of the revenue cycle.

Primary responsibility is to analyze Net App’s key performance indicators to determine accurate revenue and margin forecasts, and to resolve any issues around that forecast. This role reports to Director of Finance.

The Financial Analyst’s role has responsibility for a wide range of financial support and analysis. You will help to ensure that departmental objectives and project deadlines are met and clearly communicated. The essential functions of the department include:

• Prepare forecasts and drive operational and financial metrics in support of key decision-making for worldwide revenue and margins
• Gather, analyze, prepare, and summarize recommendations for financial plans by reviewing QTD actuals, analyzing historical trends, and considering expected future trends
• Work closely with cross-functional groups, including Sales Operations, Sales, Manufacturing, Business Units, Revenue Accounting, and other finance teams to ensure accuracy in forecasting deliverables
• Build data models and perform scenario analysis in Excel by synthesizing data from multiple systems and manual records
• Create and communicate schedules to cross-functional teams for month-end and quarter-end deliverables, set up review meetings, and consolidate inputs
• Present revenue and margin forecasts and actuals to cross-functional leadership teams, including the CEO and CFO
• Maximize Net App’s financial performance while limiting the economic and business risk to the Company
• Engage with various stakeholders on how to improve revenue

• Provide a quarterly and monthly revenue forecast
• Consolidate total company revenue forecast, including deferred services, professional services, OEM, and contra revenue forecasts, and provide variance explanations against AOP & prior forecasts
• Partner with Sales Ops to determine future bookings to revenue conversions
• Work with Field HQ FP&A on forecast assumptions related to deferred & non-deferred product mix, carve allocations, and reserves that go into the monthly revenue forecast
• Partner with Revenue Accounting on adjustments that impact the revenue forecast
• Partner with Field HQ finance on AOP & long-term revenue forecast modeling
• Provide Finance support for Bookings, Billings, & Backlog (BBB) data, including BBB executive dashboards
• Participate in various finance projects
• Provide quarter-end revenue forecast vs actual variance analysis

• Strong FP&A ability and the capability to move beyond reporting to…