Facebook

Director of Finance - Marketing

Posted on: 14 Apr 2021

Menlo Park, CA

Job Description

Facebook is seeking a leader for the Marketing Finance team within the Finance & Business Planning (FBP) organization. FBPs mission is to enable Facebook to plan, prioritize, and execute as effectively as possible. FBP brings an independent and objective perspective to the data and decisions that we support and always advocates for intellectual honesty. This role will serve as a financial adviser (mini-CFO) to Facebooks marketing leadership team, including the Chief Marketing Officer, and will share in owning business goals and results where appropriate. This role will lead a lean, highly efficient team that prides itself on being quantitative and data-oriented.

Director of Finance - Marketing Responsibilities

* Managing a budget that supports the Marketing teams operating needs and sets clearly defined short-term goals and operational plans for the next year

* Developing a Long Range Plan that supports the Marketing teams strategic vision as well as the companys long-term mission and financial future

* Ensuring that we deliver on key financial goals

* Provide accurate ongoing forecasts to ensure that we understand how resources are being deployed and their ROI

* Supporting our Marketing leadership team (including the Chief Marketing Officer), specifically on business decision making

* Helping to communicate Marketing spend and ROI to both Finance and Marketing leadership

* Helping to close the books accurately

* Helping to safeguard company resources and assets

* Helping to implement business/product initiatives appropriately

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree

* 15+ years of experience in FP&A, consulting, investment banking, business strategy, business operations and/or analytics

* Experience leading and developing teams and working cross functionally across global teams

* Experience in a data-driven environment

* Proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams including Analytics, Marketing, Finance and Accounting

* Proven track record in evaluating business decisions, including identifying gaps or business needs, and proposing and implementing solutions

* Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and drive initiatives in a cross-functional environment

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with data analytics tools including SQL and/or R is preferred

* Experience with Oracle/Hyperion is preferred

Locations

About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.

Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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