Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Sydney, Australia

Salesforce is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to partner with the Go-To-Market (GTM) organization in ANZ. This role involves financial reporting, budget execution, optimization, and providing finance-based decision support for new resourcing and investments. The manager will leverage AI tools to enhance analytical depth and efficiency, and identify opportunities for AI-powered solutions to enable efficiency and scale. While the company heavily utilizes AI, this role focuses on financial strategy and analysis, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Sales Leadership and cross-functional teams to bring awareness of business results and drive business growth
  2. Serve as a trusted advisor to the business, helping inform and guide decision-making through insightful financial analyses
  3. Lead annual planning and quarterly forecasting processes for the ANZ GTM organisation
  4. Manage headcount and operating expenses, identifying areas of opportunity for better returns and highlighting areas of risk
  5. Develop and track metrics, KPIs, and leading and lagging indicators of operational success tied to top-line performance

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field
  • Strong financial modelling experience
  • Problem-solving and analytical skills, great business judgment, and excellent communication skills
  • Experience with SQL and/or other programming or scripting languages such as R or Python
  • Ability to partner with key stakeholders to drive strategy and business direction
  • Working knowledge and understanding of sales cycles, quota setting, territory planning, and sales compensation
  • Curiosity about AI and emerging technologies, with an eagerness to explore how they can be applied to finance and decision-making

Nice to have

  • Sales Finance, Operations, or Strategy experience in a high-growth environment; Enterprise SaaS experience preferred
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools to drive productivity and analytical insights
  • Ability to influence and provide recommendations to C-level executives
  • Strong communicator with demonstrated ability to present to senior leadership
  • Experience with visualisation tools such as Tableau or PowerBI
  • Track record in process re-engineering and optimisation, including automation and AI-enabled workflows
  • Experience with Hyperion, Business Objects, or other BI tools
  • Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

What the JD emphasized

  • Curiosity for AI and emerging technologies
  • AI tools to enhance analytical depth and efficiency
  • AI-powered solutions to enable efficiency and scale
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools to drive productivity and analytical insights