Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

* Responsible for the management of financial staff. Staffs the department, assigns work, reviews performance and addresses performance issues.
* Promotes and maintains a productive work environment.
* Provides daily leadership, coaching and development to team members.
* Responsible to set team goals and to communicate and monitor these goals to ensure the targets are achieved.
* Develops guidelines, procedures and business controls to provide work direction.
* Places a strong focus on the attainment of financial/performance objectives, and drives both the finance staff and operational management towards a consistent focus on these goals.
* Manages the activities of the decision support staff to ensure accurate and timely development and consolidation of financial MORs, forecasts, metrics, plans, and strategies.
* Ensures meaningful and value-add analysis is performed in conjunction with this activity, in order to support bothfinancial and operational management in their decision making.
* Ensures that team support is provided to senior financial staff, to assist in attainment of total company targets, achievement of corporation wide schedules and reporting requirements – as well as providing insight and analysis on issues, risks, and opportunities.
* Provides financial leadership by reviewing, analyzing and interpreting financial and budgetary information.
* Participates in management decision-making drawing on information, analysis and recommendations from others.
* Provides analysis of investment decisions, product pricing, profitability, and cash flow.
* Develops external business relationships as required with counterparts inside the customer and / or supplier organizations and the investment community.
* Implements and supports financial processes and system architecture.
* Develops new procedures and implements new processes to continually improve financial analysis, service quality, drive cost reduction and support strategic initiatives.
* Manages special projects within finance or as a member of a cross functional or customer team as required.

Refer to technical skills below

* Strong knowledge of system-level hardware design, including CPUs, memory subsystems, power delivery, and high-speed interfaces.
* Familiarity with EMC, safety standards, and board-level design constraints.
* Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills at system bring-up stage.
* Ability to review and assess design risks, and propose system-level solutions.
* Effective communication and leadership skills for cross-site collaboration.