Sr Manager, Consumer FP&A

A Little About Us

The Consumer FP&A team helps to drive success by providing our business partners and key stakeholders with the operational support, insights and direction essential to continue growing our business.  We’re responsible for delivering the financial forecast, providing senior leaders with strategic recommendations and continuing to drive profitable growth.

A Lot About You

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with strong execution skills that can think creatively and is passionate about figuring out “the why” when it comes to their business.

You thrived in the past and are ready to roll up your sleeves and play a crucial role in shaping the financial reporting and analysis for one of the largest media and communication platforms in the world. You have a great deal of experience taking complex modeling scenarios and communicating them in executive friendly ways. You have a passion for visual storytelling, creative thinking and analysis. You are comfortable speaking to and engaging with senior leaders.

Your Day

This role is in the Consumer Finance organization supporting our Mail and Platform Services business units.

We are looking for a financial modeling expert. While your primary responsibility will be focused on Cloud spend and Digital transformation, you’ll also be performing complex, robust financial scenario analysis (revenue, cost and full business implications) for both the Mail and Consumer FP&A leadership teams alongside supporting the broader Consumer FP&A group. You will help to manage P&L forecasting and budget cycles alongside ad hoc analysis, and deliver against our regular finance operating cadence (daily and weekly pacing, monthly close and roughly quarterly annual forecasts). You will partner strategically with business leads across both Mail and Platforms (including Monetization, Commerce, Media Platforms and Consumer Data) to help grow our business, surface new insights and work on projects to improve, automate and simplify finance processes.  

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Development of comprehensive financial forecasts, budgets and long term financial plan 

• Analyze financial performance against key business metrics providing actionable insights

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to gather and analyze financial data, ensuring accuracy and completeness

• Partner with the CTO Corporate FP&A team as the lead financial partner on Digital Transformation and migration to Google Cloud

• Robust understanding of and ability to forecast both revenue and cost across Yahoo’s multiple revenue streams

• Leading forecasting and horizontal cost allocation efforts within central Home Ecosystem teams

• Proactive communication of trends, key metrics and business indicators to finance leadership

You Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field

• 7-10 years of related finance experience, Ideally including media industry experience

• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills; attention to detail; problem solving abilities

• Experience in Excel and reporting, while creating visual graphs/data to tell a cohesive story

• Strong teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to manage multiple projects in an environment that is fast-paced and highly dynamic

• Experience with capitalized labor and cloud cost

• Passion for technology, media and drive for continuous improvement

Remote work arrangement may be possible for this role.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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