Senior Manager FP&A

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

The Consumer FP&A team helps to drive success by providing our business partners and key stakeholders with the operational support, insights and direction essential to continue growing our business.  We’re responsible for delivering the financial forecast, providing senior leaders with strategic recommendations and continuing to drive profitable growth.

A Lot About You

The ideal candidate will be a hard working and intelligent individual with strong execution skills that can think creatively and is passionate about figuring out “the why” when it comes to their business.

You have demonstrated strong modeling skills and are ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and be a critical partner in shaping the financial reporting and analysis for one of the largest media and communication platforms in the world. You are excited about contributing to the overall financial health and growth of our business by partnering with the team. You are a strategic thinker that enjoys partnering with a business to achieve its targets. You are comfortable gathering and organizing large amounts of data into cohesive stories to help provide actionable business insights.

Your Day

This role is in the Consumer FP&A organization supporting our Ad Sales team.

You will focus mostly on revenue modelling and tracking alongside ad hoc analysis, and deliver against our regular finance operating cadence (weekly pacing, monthly close, quarterly reforecasting and annual budget season). You will partner with the Ads Biz Ops team to help grow our business, surface new insights and work on projects to improve, automate and simplify our processes.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Quota setting for Yahoo Ads Sales org (CTQ, Outlook, budgeting, financial modeling)
• Drive weekly Advertiser level Pipeline review with Sales leadership
• Identify revenue drivers/potential gaps in sales pipeline and visibility
• Partner with Sales org on manual adjustments, sales credits, SPIFF distribution
• Cross functional partnership with Monetisation, Data, accounting and broader FP&A teams
• Proactive analysis of industry and competitor trends
• Build and present multi year revenue forecasts across US and Intl regions
• Provide strategic support alongside data-driven financial storytelling to executive leadership team

You Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field
• 7+ years of related finance experience, Ideally including media industry experience
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills; attention to detail; problem solving abilities
• Experience in Excel and reporting
• Strong teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects in an environment that is fast-paced and highly dynamic
• Strong desire to learn, improve and Passion for technology, media and drive for continuous improvement