Here’s a summary of the role:
As a Finance Business Partner, you will act as a strategic financial support to business units across the Americas portfolio, using financial data and insights to support decision-making, improve performance, and drive business growth.
Working closely with functional leaders, you will drive cross-functional collaboration, challenge the status quo and in turn ensure robust planning, reporting, and decision support that aligns the Americas with wider business goals.
The base salary hiring range for this position is $133,629.00 - $177,180.00
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
- Build strong relationships between the finance department and business leaders, acting as a strategic business partner to support growth efficiency, and profitability.
- Provide insightful financial analysis to support strategic and operational initiatives.
- Lead the preparation of budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans for the Americas including the US Regional business as well as the US Tech business, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
- Monitor and report on expenditure and resource allocation, highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Support the month-end close process, preparing variance analysis and commentary for the US Regional and US Tech businesses in the monthly reporting pack.
- Evaluate investment cases and business proposals within the Americas (e.g., technology, people initiatives, facilities projects).
- Develop and maintain financial models to support scenario planning and cost–benefit analysis.
- Partner with department leads to help them understand financial results and make informed decisions.
- Ensure that quarterly commission accruals and sales bonuses are performed with accuracy.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying process efficiencies and automation opportunities within reporting and planning.
- Ensure that financial KPIs and metrics for the Americas are well understood, tracked, and aligned with business objectives.
- Support ad hoc analysis and reporting requirements from functional leaders and senior management.
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- CPA designation, CFA charterholder or candidate, MBA with a finance concentration is preferred.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis, or business partnering roles.
- Experience working in a commercial, high growth or tech environment is an advantage.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex data for executive audiences.
- Proven ability to work independently, take initiative, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with OneStream, NetSuite, Adaptive, Salesforce and Power BI. #LI-MA1
Why join YouGov?
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Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
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