Manager, FP&A

Job Description

Summary

Looking for a company where the Financial Planning & Analysis team plays an integral role in decision making? If you answer yes, then you’ll find what you seek within Yelp’s growing FP&A function.
At Yelp, FP&A is a welcomed partner in all aspects of the business, and regularly contributes to critical decision making.
Business partners are eager for your financial expertise and value your help in understanding, tracking and managing finances and resources to achieve company goals. If you are someone who enjoys this type of FP&A environment and is looking to make an important impact to Yelp, then come join our growing team!
The FP&A Business Partner role is ideal for highly-motivated individuals who function with confidence and expertise in a fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment. The Manager will have direct visibility to Yelp’s senior management, as well as significant interaction with leadership across key functional areas. Candidates must have great communication skills, a knack for forging close professional relationships, a track record of favorably influencing business performance. The ideal candidate is results-driven, possesses a strong drive to exceed personal goals, and is naturally inclined to anticipate risks, take ownership of challenges, and make sound decisions.
The role will report to Yelp’s Director of FP&A and embed with Sales leadership on a day-to-day basis.

Where you come in:

• You will play a lead role in the annual planning and monthly forecasting process.
• You will maintain and improve existing models and metrics, while developing and introducing new analytical frameworks that enhance insight, efficiency and decision-making speed.
• You will forge close relationships with business leaders and departmental heads to become a trusted advisor who highlights risks, spots opportunities, builds simulations and sensitivity analyses, and suggests solutions that create value for customers, employees and shareholders alike.
• You will provide accurate, timely, and actionable financial reporting and key business metrics to operating teams, company leadership, and other groups as necessary. Collaborate with functional departments across the company to build and/or enhance reporting needs as necessary.
• You will aid decision making for reasonable and optimal resource allocation across product, sales, customer support and marketing levers.
• You will partner closely with Business Operations & Strategy and other groups to effectively assess business environment and trends to develop/propose action plans/alternatives.
• You will collaborate and communicate on a timely basis with the central heart of Corporate FP&A about monthly forecasts and other financial trends and developments
• You will manage and develop direct reports

What it takes to succeed:

• You have excellent customer focus, a service mentality, and the ability to partner closely with internal customers.
• You have extraordinary written and verbal communication skills.
• You have superior analytical and problem solving skills with superb attention to detail.
• You have demonstrated success working in a deadline driven and multi-tasking environment.
• You have the ability to work independently in a rapidly changing environment.
• You have demonstrated knowledge of forecasting and financial statement analysis.
• You have the desire to consistently exceed expectations and take on more responsibility.
• You have advanced Excel modeling chops.
• You have experience with Oracle, Anaplan, SQL, Tableau is desired.
• You have a personal interest and passion for business and modeling.
• You have 6+ years of progressive experience in finance or related field with prior management experience
• You have experience with publicly-traded, high-growth technology companies - $1 billion in revenue, 5,000+ employees
• MBA or CPA preferred

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