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Job Title	Finance Business Partner
Job Description	We are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner (FBP) to support the North American Marketing and Customer Service Organizations. The FBP will be a trusted financial advisor to the senior executives and deliver quality financial support for the business. This role will require the individual to: - Form a strong partnership with the business leadership team. A trusted advisor and hands on partner to support a SaaS Marketing Organization. A working understanding of a marketing funnel measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of various lead sources such as PPC (pay per click), PPL (pay per lead), Web, Webinar, Email, Referral, etc. would be preferred. - Effectively use financial information to provide the business with better insight into business performance and trajectory and opportunities for growth and optimization of P&L - Support the business in developing and executing on an effective business strategy; and in the planning and budgeting process - Collaborate effectively with other functional finance leaders to ensure that financial processes are running effectively and that the region meets internal Sage governance and also external compliance guidelines.
Key Responsibilities	• Work closely with Commercial Finance and Business Leadership to develop accurate and timely annual budgets and forecasts to ensure alignment between stakeholders and systems • Prepare and oversee the development, maintenance, and distribution of relevant and reliable daily, weekly, and monthly performance reporting and analysis of financial and non-financial data to be published for the leadership team • Lead improvements in delivering business predictability through a robust forecasting and review framework • Responsible for managing and maintaining the budgeting/forecasting models. • Evaluate and develop new performance analytics requirements by leveraging several data sources to facilitate support of Business leaders • Build and review business cases and ensure that the right commercial decisions are made for the Sage Group • Implement initiatives to make the monthly Group reporting process as efficient and accurate as possible with a faster close process • Assist in providing feedback to specific queries raised by the NA and Group FP&A teams. • Ensure controls are set up and working as expected; drive continuous improvement in the local financial control process • Support Group-wide and regional ad hoc projects, such as standardized reporting, faster month end close process, reporting system implementations, reporting integration of an acquisition, etc. Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree is required for the position (required); CPA Designation (asset) • Minimum 5 years of experience including at least 3 years of SaaS experience in a SaaS-based business in finance or performance analytics role • Business partnering experience with ability to build strong collaborative relationships within the business and across Finance pillars • A working understanding of a digital marketing funnel is preferred • Commercial & can demonstrate great business understanding, analytical and with a real eye for detail. Enjoys working in a hands-on environment and has a genuine interest in understanding the issues behind the numbers • Passionate, energetic, driven, and resilient • Strong technical background leveraging data tools (Enterprise EPR, SQL, Python) • Well-developed presentation and communication skills • Proficiency with Microsoft Office required in particular Microsoft Excel #Li-SH1
Function	Commercial Finance
Country	United States
Office Location	Lawrenceville;Atlanta;San Jose;Remote
Work Place type	Hybrid
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