Apply experience with agentic AI, generative AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation to streamline planning activities, surface anomalies, generate first-draft variance narratives, and accelerate scenario analysis.
Establish appropriate human review, data security, documentation, and control practices for AI-enabled finance processes.
Define and track transformation outcomes such as planning cycle time, forecast accuracy, manual touchpoints, adoption, data quality, and decision speed.
Business Partnership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Serve as a finance business partner to Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Management, Corporate Accounting, Human Resources, and other functional leaders.
Collaborate with international colleagues and teammates across time zones in a global, matrixed environment.
Challenge assumptions constructively, influence without direct authority, and align stakeholders around fact-based decisions and enterprise priorities.
Communicate complex financial and operational topics clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences.
Workforce Planning & Resource Allocation
Partner with Human Resources and business leaders to connect workforce plans with financial plans, operating priorities, and productivity objectives.
Develop headcount, compensation, hiring, attrition, vacancy, and organizational scenario models; improve visibility into workforce-related risks and opportunities.
Enable disciplined resource allocation by linking roles, skills, capacity, and costs to strategic outcomes.
Performance Management, Governance & Leadership
Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reporting; identify trends, root causes, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
Support executive presentations, Board materials, and management reviews with accurate, decision-oriented analysis.
Partner with Accounting to ensure planning and reporting are aligned with company policies, financial controls, accounting standards, and audit requirements.
Lead, mentor, and develop finance professionals while fostering accountability, curiosity, inclusion, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
Promote collaboration and consistent practices across global finance and business teams.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, operational finance, or related roles, including 3+ years of people leadership experience.
Demonstrated experience supporting a manufacturing, telecommunications, networking, technology, or similarly complex product-based business.
Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, scenario planning, management reporting, and performance analysis.
Proven track record of building or redesigning finance processes and reducing manual work through automation, analytics, or workflow improvement.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with business intelligence, enterprise resource planning, and financial planning platforms.
Ability to operate effectively when priorities, inputs, or business conditions are evolving; skilled at creating structure, clarifying assumptions, and moving decisions forward.
Excellent executive communication, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder influence, organization, and problem-solving skills.
Experience working across functions and with international colleagues in a global or matrixed organization.
Preferred Qualifications
MBA, CPA, CMA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional certification.
Direct experience in telecommunications or network equipment, including hardware, software, services, supply chain, and project-based models.
Hands-on experience with SAP and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), including planning, forecasting, analytics, reporting, dashboards, or data integration.
Practical experience using agentic AI, generative AI, machine learning, robotic process automation, or related capabilities in forecasting, budgeting, reporting, or decision support.
Experience with workforce planning and associated systems, data, and governance.
Experience supporting a publicly traded company and preparing executive or Board-level materials.
Leadership Profile
Builder: Creates scalable processes, standards, and capabilities rather than relying on workarounds.
Change leader: Brings others along, converts ideas into adoption, and balances speed with governance.
Enterprise thinker: Connects commercial, operational, people, and financial drivers to the broader business strategy.
Comfortable with ambiguity: Makes progress with incomplete information while clearly communicating assumptions, risks, and decision points.
Collaborative and globally minded: Builds trust across functions, levels, cultures, and geographies.
Hands-on and outcomes focused: Moves comfortably between strategic thinking, detailed analysis, and execution.
