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Job Category

Corporate Development

Job Details

The Sr. Analyst, M&A Reporting and Analytics professional will play a crucial role in supporting M&A organization at Salesforce. This role is part of a high-performance team, and success in this role means assisting business partners to drive the continued success of Salesforce's acquired business portfolio. This position is hybrid of traditional jobs in strategic planning, sales operations, financial planning, and analysis, and success in role requires a the candidate to possess a balanced mix of thoughtful analysis, exec-ready presentations, process optimization, and business operational support.

The ideal candidate thrives in delivering solutions to complex problems, has an affinity for data and analytics in support of driving business decisions, and is comfortable working with executives and stakeholders of all levels. In this role, you will be highly collaborative, working cross-functionally within the Corporate Development team, and functionally across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Business Technology, etc. to identify opportunities for improvement, efficiency, and scale, and deliver solutions through technology, process and shared services.

This role will serve as the go to person for key business, integration, and retention metrics. The individual will need to manage information from multiple systems to distill into a clear message, analyze the information based on decision making by the executive leadership team and follow up with metrics owners on definition and business narrative. Candidate must have a background with experience in delivering standardized reporting and analysis capabilities leveraging innovative technical solutions like Tableau and Einstein Analytics.

Responsibilities

* Own standardized reporting and readouts; Lead the governance required to develop and analyze business and integration accountability based metrics for CEOs/ COO extended leadership every month and quarterly readouts to the Salesforce M&A Committee and Board of Directors
* Drive cross functional alignment, ownership and communication of standard data definitions, structures and governance of key company performance metrics
* Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and manage inter dependencies on other company process to recommend scalable long term processes, architecture and systems.
* Learn, align and provide thought leadership on world class best practices in FP&A and key company performance metrics process and systems
* Build strong acumen to analyze the data and be the expert to identify inconsistencies and present findings (such as factors that drove results or data quality root causes, etc) to senior leaders across the company
* Develop extensive knowledge base of existing Salesforce processes, identify opportunities to drive efficiency and scale in partnership with metric owners across the company
* Strategize, evangelize and deliver standardization of reporting and analytics capabilities in a shared services/ center of excellence model to drive efficiencies and scale
* Lead design and solution to execute the key company metrics; lead deep dives into our processes and data to unlock business and governance opportunities
* Strong team player with service-oriented attitude and customer focus

Desired Skills/Experience

* Data science, statistical analysis skills and experience
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Tableau experience a plus
* Demonstrated ability to be effective with minimal supervision
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively as well as the business and technical communities
* Structured and critical thinking to lead governance of complex financial reporting and analytics
* Extremely adept at integrating disparate information, correlating data, and understanding data trends
* Experience with data quality assessment and implementing solutions to improve the data quality Demonstrated ability to be innovative and challenging status quo Proven track record of building strong relationships across functions, different levels within the organization and across locations Highly advanced Excel and VBA skills

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