Finance Operations Manager
Splunk is looking for an individual to join its finance team and be one of the first to help us establish our Costa Rica shared services center. This Finance Operations (FinOps) Manager role will be a part of our transaction approval and analytics team supporting the global FP&A department. You will partner closely with FP&A partner leads and business partners across functions and get to know different business units across the company. In addition, this Manager will be viewed as the Finance organization’s Costa Rica “community site leader” with the unique opportunity to establish Finance’s office culture at this new location. Candidates will have outstanding partnership and communication skills, handle multiple priorities, as well as the ability to deal with the ambiguity that comes in a fast-growing organization. This is a great opportunity to become part of the FP&A team and have potential to directly help improve Finance processes and systems that impact spend management across all of Splunk.
Responsibilities: I want to and can do that!
- Responsible for FP&A fundamental data validation such as authorization to spend or hire by reviewing/approving purchase orders and hiring requisitions to ensure all relevant financial information is accurately recorded.
- Construct and analyze first pass of monthly and quarterly spend purchase order based accruals, and draft PO accrual spend analysis and expense trending.
- Assist in ad-hoc analysis under the direction of senior members of the team.
- Introduce improvements, streamline, and eliminate unnecessary processes and workflow that will enhance the overall operation and efficiency of the Finance organization.
- Collaborate with various functional departments and internally within Finance as appropriate.
- Be a mentor and coach to other CFO departmental analysts based in Costa Rica that direct line report back to department managers in the US.
- People manage FinOps analysts after establishing track record of delivering on individual assignments
Requirements: I’ve already done that or have that!
- 7.5+ years of related finance or accounting experience, including some prior experience with managing project team members who either directly or indirectly reported to them
- This role is for doers; be able to get into the details and get the job done while at the same time being able to see the forest for the trees
- Ability to work well under deadline pressure, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and stay flexible through growth and change.
- Strong customer service orientation and a desire to help others succeed, across the team and their stakeholders.
- Demonstrated analytical and quantitative abilities.
- Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- High attention to detail in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Comfortable completing projects requiring individual initiative and flexibility in tight time frames with some direct supervision as required.
- Basic financial acumen broadly across the organization (e.g., understanding of financial statements, chart of accounts, business intelligence, FP&A processes, etc.,)
- Project planning, coordination, communications and process/system change experience a plus
- Prior software industry and/or US headquartered company experience a plus
- Software and system skills (Google Suite, Workday, Tableau, SAP, Slack, Zoom) a plus. Microsoft Excel is a must.
Education: Got it!
- Bachelors Degree is a must, in Finance or Accounting or related relevant areas a plus
- Masters Degree and/or professional certifications such as CA, CPA, CFA, etc. a plus.
This is a test line.
About Splunk
Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big data—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.
Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. It’s what we call Operational Intelligence.
Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!
Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.
We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.
Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!
SF Only
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer, “Fun Fridays”.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Non SF
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer and “Fun Fridays”.
This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?
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