FP&A Data and Reporting Manager

About InterDigital

InterDigital develops mobile and video technologies that are at the core of devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry's most critical and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband networks, better video delivery, and richer multimedia experiences years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and strategic relationships with many of the world's leading technology companies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ and is included in the S&P MidCap 400® index.

Summary

About the Finance Team: We are a dynamic team of professionals that enjoy solving the challenges that come with growth and scaling. Our goals are to support the growth of InterDigital as profitably as possible, drive and inform InterDigital’s most important business and financial decisions and provide business insights and visibility to our executive leadership team, board of directors, and investors.

We are searching for an experienced Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Data and Reporting Manager to join the Corporate FP&A team. You will drive the development of scalable reporting solutions that provide business insight that’s relevant and digestible to senior leadership. As the admin of FP&A’s planning and budgeting tool, you will be responsible for managing integration, consolidation and refresh cycles in support of close, forecast and budget cycles. In partnership with InterDigital Information Systems team, you will play a key role in developing standardized and scalable reporting solutions within BI and other enterprise-level systems.

The successful candidate will have prior experience serving as the system admin for enterprise level planning and reporting tools in a corporate finance environment, has a proven track record of partnership and delivering results, and is passionate about enabling financial processes, modeling, reporting and analysis through BI technologies. A strong business acumen and the ability to translate business problems into technical solutions will be critical to this role.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Director of FP&A you will Support forecasting, budgeting and reporting needs for the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. • Support the development and implementation of standardized approaches / automated processes within FP&A.
• Strong focus on automating the forecasting process and business monitoring / reporting
• Create reporting templates, dashboards, etc. using source data to provide visualization to the end user
• Maintain data integrity across systems to ensure the FP&A planning tool is accurate for actuals, data hierarchies, cost centers, product codes, general ledger accounts, etc.
• Manage integration and refresh cycles that meet the users’ needs, with emphasis during the close and forecast cycles
• Lead, drive and refine systems where needed to support existing and new reporting requirements while maintaining reporting continuity with minimal disruptions
• Develop and support ongoing user training to ensure all functional users understand the application capabilities and leverage system capabilities to deliver the optimal user experience to the Finance team
• Anticipate executive management reporting needs, and deliver timely, accurate and insightful management reporting/analysis • Serve as the FP&A lead with IS for all FP&A system related issues, updates and enhancement projects
• Support the migration of manual reporting to new automated solutions where relevant
• Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, automate and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies
• Ad hoc modeling, analysis and reporting, as required

Qualifications (Examples only)

• 6 years of progressive work experience in financial planning and analysis, reporting, process management, data modeling
• 4 years of in Corporate FP&A and a strong level of budgeting and forecasting experience is required
• 3 years of direct experience with cloud based financial planning/reporting tool
• Project management experience and the ability to work cross functionally
• A self-starter with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• SQL query experience preferred
• Passion for Data, BI and analytics to drive business value
• Superb attention to detail and a strong commitment to data integrity
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work with all levels of management
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables and competing priorities
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a dynamic, fast-paced environment • Experience defining business requirements, with ability to develop rapid prototypes and proofs-of-concept to test effectiveness of said requirements and accelerate time to production
• Ability to handle and maintain confidential information

Location: New York, NY; or Wilmington, DE

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