Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Finance Business Partner

8x8 connects our customers and teams globally, empowering CX leaders with performance and insights to make smarter decisions, delight customers, and drive lasting business impact.

8x8 is looking for a highly motivated professional with exceptional analytical and modeling skills to join us as a Senior Financial Manager. We help senior business leaders frame decisions quantitatively, including investment and strategic priorities. This is a highly visible and critical role in the organization to partner with senior sales leadership team in understanding and driving strategic and financial goals of the organization at 8x8 Inc level. Excellent opportunity to work closely with CFO/Senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Decision Support and Business Partnership

• Ability to think critically in a structured fashion and translate leadership discussions into an analytical decision-making framework

• Strong people management background to drive growth and organizational change

• Ability to create/deliver intuitive stories/slides using variety to metrics, data and analysis

• Ability to hold partners accountable, employing quantitative and qualitative approaches to decision framework. Develop strong business relations, and be a trusted advisor to leadership team

• Monthly Forecast/Close

• Create and maintain a driver based P&L model for sales forecast including bookings, billings and related expenses

• Own forecast/close process for sales function and develop a scalable/repeatable process, deliver consistent forecast accuracy, identify risks and opportunities to forecast

• Develop close/forecast reporting package for stakeholders that is insightful, intuitive in understanding complex data and help frame decisions quantitatively

• Leadership Metrics / Scorecard

• Conceptualize and execute leadership scorecard with key sales ROI metrics including ASP, bookings, billings, productivity, churn & renewal rate and LTV analysis

• Able to use scorecard/metrics in driving discussions, advocating decisions, investment and strategic priorities

• Able to work independently, identify issues proactively based on trends/metrics and able recommend solutions, create decision frameworks for senior leaders

Qualifications

• Proven experience leveraging AI-enabled tools to enhance efficiency, problem-solving, and collaboration.

• 8+ years or more of corporate financial analysis experience is preferred

• BA/BS in Accounting, Finance or other business related degree, MBA preferred

• Strong finance/accounting and processes background

• Strong Excel, Powerpoint skills and proficient in other Microsoft office applications

• Excellent analytical, quantitative and organizational skills

• Experience with Adaptive Insights, Netsuite a plus but not required

• Experience with Salesforce strongly preferred

• Prior direct business partnering experience; Sales and/or Sales Ops support in SAAS environment strongly preferred

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