Sr Finance Business Partner

Senior Finance Business Partner – United StatesNice to meet you!We’re the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence – and questions into answers.We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you’re looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you’ll find it here.About the jobThe Finance team is looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner who will collaborate closely with executive and business leadership providing them with financial planning, reporting, analysis, actionable insights, and strategic decision support to help them run the business. The position is responsible for supporting world-wide financial and management reporting, budgeting, and financial analysis of corporate results. This role also ensures the alignment and optimization of business and financial goals, strategies, plans, policies, processes and controls across the organization.As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will:• Operate as a trusted advisor to, and work closely with, business executive leadership across the US Operations Business Unites specifically the Financial Services Business Unit as an extended member of their leadership team• Provide key advisory support on the structuring of SAS commercial sales deals, to optimize short/long term revenue and profitability for SAS and to ensure compliance with ASC606 guidelines and internal SAS policy.• Work in partnership with the organizations’ Deal Desk and Revenue Recognition teams to advise Sales teams on commercial deal construction, ensuring deal revenue and profitability is optimized and deal constructs align with internal SAS policy and procedures.• Supports engagement with prospects, suppliers and customers to promote SAS and assist negotiations as required.• Assist the development of and execution of financial strategies that align with the company’s goals and objectives.• Contribute to the development of SAS policy to regulate commercial SAS sales deal structure.• Ensure ongoing awareness & alignment between all functions of the Finance division and the wider business in the design, development and operation of plans, policies, systems, processes and controls.• Leverage competitive information, industry trends, customer metrics and market dynamics to inform company and divisional targets, strategies and plans.• Manage the delivery of divisional budgets and forecasts and key performance indicators (KPI) to measure success. Monitor performance to ensure results progress to plan and to improve the ongoing accuracy of budget and forecast submissions.• Deliver regular financial management reporting and review KPIs, performance and external data to provide insights on divisional and company-wide performance and highlight trends, risks, issues and opportunities to executive leadership.• Leverage financial models, simulates scenarios and provides data driven insights and recommendations to support decisions, including, but not limited to, investment analysis, pricing strategies, revenue optimization and resource allocation.• May lead Finance, Finance Business Partnering and/or Cross Functional projects and initiative teams.Required Qualifications• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting• 8+ years of finance analysis experience• An established track record as a business partner to senior (inc. C level) leadership• Previous knowledge and experience applying ASC 606 standard• Strong relationship management, influencing and negotiating skills• Strong written and oral communications skills• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across levels, function and geographies• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.Preferred Qualifications• MBA or CPA certification• Advanced knowledge of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles – standards, financial reporting and revenue recognition specific to the technology industry. Knowledge of technology sector, emerging trends and of the competitive landscape.• Proven ability to positively impact financial business performance for supported functions as a Finance Business Partner• Experience as a Business Partner within a large multinational software and/or services organization including support of Government clients• Able to convey complex financial information clearly and concisely to non-financial stakeholders and C-Suite• Proven cross functional project leadership experience.• Advanced Financial Analysis and a CFO mindset• Advanced use of SAS Financial Management and Orion Forecasting as part of budget and forecast processes• Experience with large international publicly owned organization in commercial Finance or Business partnering capacity.World-Class BenefitsHighlights include...• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.• Medical plan options include...• PPO with low annual deductible and copays.• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!• An industry-leading 401k plan.• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.Diverse and InclusiveAt SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.Additional Information:To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. 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