Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

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At Verizon, we are building a world-class Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization. We have begun a comprehensive program to streamline processes, enhance systems, realign the organization and add opportunities for personal skill-building and professional growth. We're finding new ways to add value and provide strategic support. This is the kind of work we do. We want to build leading FP&A practices within Verizon, setting the stage to become the place any FP&A professional wants to work. You can become a catalyst for change.

The Wholesale Network & Retail Applications Standard Pricing & Costing team supports product management by providing forward-looking cost and profitability analysis for a variety of strategic products. You will become a finance subject matter expert in the Verizon product portfolios and will be expected to provide cost direction on business case compilation, vendor cost support, and capex cost assessment, forecast validation and unit cost development used for setting rates and pricing analysis. You will provide support for non-standard and standard cost quotes to support both new sales as well as renewals of customer RFPs. You will be expected to work with various database platforms to manage cost compilation, data mining, complex calculations, unit cost level allocation and develop unit level profitability data analytics by geographical market. This role will include a great amount of interaction with various operational teams including Network Engineering, Product, Legal and Accounting.

• Leveraging data analytics to provide recommendations on capital allocation.
• Partnering with the business and network team to develop product level standard cost/profitability models and reporting.
• Developing and assessing business cases for pricing on investment decisions, providing insights and support to the business.
• Assessing customer/product profitability and drive profit optimization.
• Evaluating business results and serve as a functional expert to the business client to provide strategic guidance and insights during the analysis process.
• Interpreting and evaluating monthly analyses of business trends, including budget variance of financial results and Key Performance Indicators to identify areas of risk and opportunities.
• Presenting and communicating recommendations to all levels of the business.
• Owning the development and communication of the planning and forecasting of financial reporting, operational analysis and executive reviews for Actuals, Business Plan, Commitment View, and Best View.

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
• A professional certification (e.g. CPA, CMA).
• Experience in the network, technology and/or telecommunications industry.
• Previous analytics experience in data sourcing, data manipulation and visualization, advanced analytics.
• SQL query, advanced Excel skills and/or dashboard visualization experiences (Tableau, Qlik etc).
• Experience working with Verizon internal data source such as Teradata EDW, AWS, and other network related data and reporting.
• A high degree of analytical capability with the demonstrated ability to structure business case around a high-level strategic vision.
• Strong strategic skills, with the proven ability to identify and assess key points, implications and recommendations.
• An advanced understanding of corporate financial planning, reporting & analysis, and costing/profitability methodologies and processes.
• Demonstrated in depth understanding of common business and cost drivers, financial statement analysis, and deep-dive analysis.
• Knowledge of FASB and SEC requirements, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, tax reporting and accounting practices and International Financial Reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in continuous improvement initiatives, root cause analysis and project management.
• Proficiency in Essbase, Smart View, Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion Strategic Finance.
• Experience leading large and complex team projects with minimal supervision.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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