Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A OPEX (G&A)

$90,000 - $100,400/Yr

Sonos

Full-time - Mid Level

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

The Senior Financial Analyst role at Sonos is focused on supporting OPEX planning and reporting while driving process improvements within the FP&A OPEX team. This position acts as a trusted business partner to various functional organizations, responsible for tasks such as planning and forecasting, monthly accounting close support, OPEX budget management, and financial model building. The role requires strong collaboration, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to projects, with an emphasis on teaching and learning within the team.

Responsibilities

• Drive the annual planning and monthly forecasting process with business partners; maintain planning calendars, user templates, and manage Anaplan inputs; create forecast to forecast variance bridges with explanations.
• Partner with the Accounting team at each month and quarter-end to ensure accurate accruals for key expense items and analyze accuracy of results compared to forecast.
• Become the subject matter expert for OPEX variance explanations versus Plan and Forecast and lead the storytelling for the teams you support; participate in total company OPEX consolidations and storytelling in partnership with Core FP&A.
• Partner with Finance Systems teams to create tools and reports that allow for more streamlined forecasting, accurate reporting, and better insight; contribute to system enhancements or new system implementations.
• Identify and lead process improvement opportunities across FP&A, Accounting, and other partners to improve efficiency, reporting and performance.
• Ad hoc projects supporting key business partners within the teams you support.
• Partner with the business to compile financial projections supporting functional and strategic long term planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or similar field.
• Minimum of 4+ years progressive experience working in FP&A, accounting, consulting or banking.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets modeling and analysis skills, ability to analyze and summarize large data sets and make recommendations based on the data.
• General knowledge of US GAAP accounting principles and accrual accounting, full P&L familiarity, and budget management exposure.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of or experience with FP&A business partnering in a consumer electronics or other retail company.
• Critical Thinking & Analysis - Ability to look at situations and data from multiple perspectives, synthesize and evaluate what is useful for forecasting.
• Problem Solving - Ability to identify and frame problems logically, clearly and apply reasoning to break problems down and identify a solution or path forward.
• Customer Orientation - Proven ability to work cross functionally and experience communicating with or presenting to people at all levels of the organization with varying levels of financial literacy.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace and collaboration tools.
• Previous experience using Anaplan (or similar cloud forecasting tool), SAP and scalable dashboarding tools (i.e. Tableau, Microstrategy, etc.), basic SQL knowledge.
• Experience working at a consumer product or manufacturing focused multinational consumer company.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• A 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vesting
• An Open Time Off policy (OTO)
• 80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annually
• Up to 12 paid holidays per calendar year
• 12 weeks of paid Bonding Leave following the birth or adoption of a new child
• Company-paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet Insurance
• Mental health benefits to support your holistic well-being
• A generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!