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Manager, Finance & Business Operations
WeWork
Boston, MA, United States
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Finance & Business Operations - Manager
Boston
Finance & Business Operations
The Finance & Business Operations team serves as the strategic thought partner and financial planning function for WeWork’s territory Leadership Team. As a member of the Territory Leadership Team, the Finance and Business Operations Manager works closely with the General Manager, Sales Manager, Director of Operations to support and optimize the planning and execution of all territory business initiatives.
The Role
We are looking for a highly passionate, analytically-driven, strategic finance professional to help drive the business in WeWork’s Northeast territory (currently including Boston, Toronto, and Montreal). In this important role you have a dual reporting relationship to both the General Manager of the Northeast Region and the VP, Finance and Business Operations of the East Region. This role will serve as a key leader on the Northeast Leadership team 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.
Finance & Business Operations will measure and track KPIs and financial metrics that support strategic decision-making. You will balance multiple projects at once and partner with various operating and analytic 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.
Responsibilities include:
• Strategy: Serve as a trusted, strategic finance partner to our leadership team in the areas of capital spend, ROI, operational efficiency, revenue growth, and profitability and help define and develop the region’s 3-5 year operating plan.
• Analytics: Serve as the analytics hub of the Northeast Territory to advise leadership of the impact of business decisions and opportunities for financial improvement. You will collaborate across the organization, especially with our central analytics team based in New York which includes analysts in real estate, sales, marketing, pricing, and operations.
• Planning: Serve as a key stakeholder in the development of the territory’s annual operating plan, budgeting, forecasting, and review.
• Reporting: Provide visibility, governance and timely reporting of financials and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Capital: 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.
• Leadership: You will live the mission and values of WeWork at all time and model the leadership behaviors you expect to see in your territory.
Who we are looking for:
• BA/BS in Finance, Economics, or other course of study; MBA in Finance and/or Economics is a plus.
• 7+ years of experience in FP&A and/or Strategic Finance equivalent functions; experience in analytically-driven roles is a plus (i.e. Investment Banking, Consulting, Analytics, etc.).
• A strategic thinker with excellent business judgment
• Experience defining analytical/research projects, analyzing data, modeling, and generating practical insights and 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.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Based in: Boston (HQ for the Northeast Territory)