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Strategic Finance - Senior Manager
WeWork
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Strategic Finance
The Strategic Finance team serves as the strategic thought partner and financial planning function for WeWork’s regional leadership team for the West (Western US and Canada), headquartered in San Francisco. This function is central and integral to driving world class capital efficiency and financial discipline at not only massive scale but in hyper growth.
The Role
We are looking for a highly passionate, analytically-driven, strategic finance professional to be one of the very first and select strategic finance leaders to join our Finance team in the West. You will report to and work closely with the VP Finance. This role will serve as a key leader on a lean, high-impact, “Navy Seal” finance and business operations unit, playing an instrumental role in strategic decision-making, key business processes and achieving growth and profitability at a scale few businesses have ever achieved. If a front-row seat in helping to drive a business at hyper growth and massive scale excites you, look no further and buckle up.
Strategic Finance leads will partner and work closely with our territory GMs and department heads to measure and track KPIs and financial metrics that support strategic decision-making. You will balance multiple projects at once and partner with various operating groups. The ideal candidate is analytical, motivated, resourceful and eager to dive into the data. To succeed in this role, you must have strong leadership, communications and relationships skills as well as strong problem solving and analytical skills. You will have significant autonomy, so we’re looking for good judgement and experience working cross-functionally and at all levels.
Priority #1: Understand the Business and its Drivers
The first 60 will be focused on developing a thorough and three-dimensional understanding of the financial and business operations of WeWork and, specifically, the West region -- to include business unit drivers, key stakeholders and individual roles and the interoperability between all departments and teams.
Key roles and responsibilities include:
• Planning: Forecasting and Budgeting - Serve as a key stakeholder in the development of the region’s annual operating plan, budgeting and quarterly forecasting
• Reporting: Financials and KPIs – Provide visibility, governance and timely reporting of financials and key performance metrics
• Strategy: Finance Partner: Serve as a trusted, strategic finance partner to our leadership team in the areas of capital spend and ROI, operational efficiency, revenue growth and bottom line profitability
• Capital: Efficiency and Profitability – Serve as a steward of capital by identifying opportunities to drive higher returns and ensure the consistent and universal application of strategic, ROI-based decision-making
• Scaling: Finance Organization and Infrastructure: Serve as a key contributor in the design and construction of a highly scalable, end-to-end financial organization – teams, processes and systems
What you’ll do
Planning: Forecasting and Budgeting
• Develop the region’s annual operating plan, budgeting and quarterly forecasting
• Assist with company-wide roll up and consolidation
• Partner across all departments and territories to develop bottoms-up financial forecasts and top-down operational goals
• Help define and develop the region’s long range 3-5 year plan
• Ensure reporting, measurement and forecasting consistency across all territories
Reporting: Financials and KPIs
• Prepare weekly and monthly executive reports including progress on key priorities and metrics
• In close partnership with the leadership team, own the tracking, refinement and reporting of key financial metrics
• Work closely with the Corporate finance team to streamline reporting, consolidations and act as a liaison to the region
• Help drive KPI and financial accountability and visibility throughout the organization
• Develop a cadence and structure to report and explain the business performance
Strategy: Business Partner
• Provide custom analytics tools, calculators, dashboards and tools to allow our functional teams to make data-driven decisions, move faster and/or plan more effectively
• Apply business judgment and financial insights to assist with decision making
• Identify and communicate risks to hitting goals and recommend optimizations
• Create ad-hoc analyses to drive specific business objectives and strategies
• Support strategic planning and P&L review processes for our Territory GMs
• Provide sophisticated financial modeling to frame, analyze and provide insight
• Think strategically and then execute - the models we build aid in decision making and strategy - we operationalize our insights
Capital: Efficiency and Profitability
• Identify and obsesses over the key drivers and metrics by which to measure and drive the business
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability by driving efficiency in operating expense spend and ROI, assess results, ensure best practices across regions and increase transparency and visibility into the expense base
• Partner closely with our Community and Operations leaders to optimize spend at the building and community level
• Create ad-hoc analyses to drive business strategy, improve efficiency and maximize ROI
Scaling: Finance Organization and Infrastructure
• Own, design, build, maintain and evolve key financial models (revenue, opex, capex)
• Work effectively in a matrix organization by closely liaising with various departments (regional general managers, operations, digital) to improve operating processes, efficiencies and reporting.
• Maintain and enhance efficiency of internal financial reporting processes
• Create, manage and automate operational reports and dashboards to monitor the financial performance of the company
• Push the boundaries of what Finance can provide outside of traditional forecasting
• Invest in the team and yourself: be just as creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical skillsets as you are in teaching and developing others
• Help recruit and maintain the best talent who contribute as much in their role as they do to the team and culture
Who we are looking for:
• BA/BS degree in Finance, Economics, Business or other quantitative focus
• 7+ years of experience in FP&A and/or Strategic Finance equivalent functions; 3+ years of experience in analytically-driven roles (Investment Banking, Consulting, Analytics, etc.) a big plus
• Experience in fast paced, start-up environments a MUST - able to work comfortably under pressure, frequently changing landscape and tight deadlines
• A strategic thinker with excellent business judgment
• Experience defining analytical/research projects, analyzing data and generating practical insights and decision-making recommendations
• Highly motivated and willing to take on multiple responsibilities at once
• Resourceful and relentless: Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations.
• Highly Innovative problem solver: possessing strong interpersonal, multi-tasking, organizational, and project planning skills, and demonstrating ability to meet aggressive deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to deal with complex problems and present recommendations and findings in a clear, concise format.
• Quick and scrappy learner who adapts well to a fast-moving environment and gets things done, combines creativity, problem-solving skills, and a can-do attitude to overcome any obstacle
• Enough laziness to find a faster way to do your least favorite tasks
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Bonus points: SQL, R, Python or other programming languages; experience querying large, complex data sets to understand at a granular level what’s happening in the business
• Based in: San Francisco (HQ for the West Region)