Financial Planning & Analysis - Senior Manager

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

The Finance Organization

At Verizon, we are building a world-class Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization. We have a comprehensive program to streamline processes, improve systems, realign the organization and add opportunities for personal skill-building and professional growth. We are finding new ways to add value and provide strategic support. We want to build leading FP&A practices within Verizon, setting the stage to become the place FP&A professionals want to work. You can become a catalyst for change.

VCG Home Commercial Finance Team Move beyond compiling data and help tell the story behind the numbers. This Business Unit facing position offers opportunities to drive better business partnering and insights, while growing your FP&A leadership and interpersonal skills. You are considered a business partner and your contributions will make a difference. You’ll be involved in helping stakeholders understand and incorporate different KPIs and analyses to deliver impactful and relevant insights for decision-making. Furthermore, you will be asked to put forth recommendations based on the derived insights to drive new initiatives and to help develop new products and services.

• Preparing financial analysis and modelling for senior management to understand the profitability of Home Consumer products and customers. This position requires an understanding of Verizon Home products, financials and operations in order to make the best-informed decisions possible.
• Supporting the financial analysis requirements of VCG and headquarter functions including Finance, Marketing, Network, Strategic Planning and IT.
• Interpreting data/business trends; translates them into findings; and presents the findings in concise, easily digestible data-driven insights to business sponsors and senior executives.
• Developing data and financial reporting models and tools used to evaluate the profitability of customers and products to inform major company financial decisions.
• Analyzing the profitability of new and existing Internet, TV and voice products and services.
• Updating financial models with current financial reporting; review assumptions to ensure accurate results; and incorporate new functionality and data elements into the models.
• Assessing the financial impact of strategic decisions and presents recommendations to leadership to drive profit optimization.
• Designing, developing and implementing methods and strategies to continually improve processes.
• Building strong relationships with business partners (marketing, finance, sales, etc.) to prioritize and align work efforts, deliverables, and how analyses are be delivered.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business/Data Analytics or Economics or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Work suites
• Experience in researching and solving problems and data discrepancies.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Extensive knowledge of Teradata Warehouses and SQL
• A Master's in Business Administration, Finance, or Business/Data Analytics
• Experience in the technology and/or telecommunications industry and knowledge of key industry metrics and wireline financial and operational drivers
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong financial modeling skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects; work effectively under tight time constraints, deliver results by critical deadlines and ability to focus on the details
• and to set/align expectations with different functions across all levels in the organization.
• Experience working both independently and in a team setting.
• Demonstrated experience in continuous improvement initiatives, root cause analysis and project management.
• Data mining, preparation and modeling experience
• Understanding of Fios products and the IOSC product/pricing structure.
• Data Warehouse knowledge and experience with EDW tables and large data-set extraction/manipulation.
• Experience building dashboards (QLIK, ThoughtSpot, Data Studio, etc.)
• Knowledge of Fios & FWA Home products

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.