Senior Manager Revenue Forecasting

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Date posted 16/08/2026 Location San Jose, California Category Finance & Accounting

This role is tasked with generating our Royalty and Silicon Revenue forecasts that serve as the foundation for internal and external operating targets for these businesses. This position plays a critical role, ensuring sure that our forecasts are reliable and accurate for business and strategic planning, and enabling us to demonstrate a record of consistent execution. Join us in San Jose, CA, and become a significant contributor within an experienced and high-performing team.

• Become a domain expert in the Royalty and Silicon businesses.
• Lead the consolidation of the Quarterly Royalty Revenue forecast, refining forecasts in collaboration with our lines of business.
• Develop the Royalty Revenue business narrative and prepare presentations for senior Finance leaders, including CFO and Investor Relations.
• Lead the Quarterly Royalty Revenue Accrual process, working closely with the Revenue Accounting team to ensure alignment and accuracy.
• Prepare Market Intelligence reports that provide senior leadership with insights into key near-term business drivers and help inform our forecasting process.
• Lead the further development of the Corporate FP&A forecasting process for Silicon Revenue in close coordination with the Silicon Operations team and lines of business.

The ideal candidate:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in Corporate FP&A, Investment Banking, Equity Research or similar.
• Exceptional financial modeling, forecasting and analytical skills, with high-attention to detail, the ability to test assumptions, interpret complex data, and make well-supported judgments.
• Demonstrated ownership of key functions within Corporate Finance, including managing processes, driving implementation, delivering outputs, collaborating across functions, and solving problems.
• Proven ability to earn trust with senior leaders and across function through domain expertise and clear decision-making.
• Strategic problem solver with the ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations, influencing decisions across functions.
• Ability to identify inefficiencies and improve processes, data quality, and forecast accuracy.
• Growth mindset with an open-minded approach to changing dynamics in Arm's business and ability to embrace and leverage emerging AI tools and data analytics platforms.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of providing executive-level commentary that balances simplicity with detail to explain Revenue performance and forecast movements.
• Ability to react swiftly to new data points and business developments, informing senior leaders and adjusting forecasts as necessary.

• Strong understanding of the Silicon business model and ecosystem, including IP licensing, the chip design and manufacturing processes, and competitive market dynamics.
• Strong fluency with AI tools and data analytics platforms, including Databricks, with the ability to harness their capabilities to automate processes and to provide unique insights into our business.
• MBA, CFA or equivalent.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Joining Arm means stepping into a career‑defining opportunity. You’ll occupy a central role in the company’s most critical initiatives. These initiatives build how Arm innovates, scales, and partners globally.

Please note this role does not meet the eligibility requirements for sponsorship, and therefore the successful candidate must have the right to work in the US without relying on sponsorship by Arm.

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