Job Description

Overview

The Small Business & Self Employed Group (“SBSEG”) is Intuit’s largest business unit with ~$3B+ in revenue, serving 6M+ customers with the QuickBooks line of products including accounting, payments, payroll and financing solutions. The Strategic Planning and Investments team is critical in driving business growth and profitability through strategic, financial and operational leadership.

Come join the finance team as a Finance Leader (internal title would be Lead Financial Analyst), supporting one of our top strategic priorities, the high growth QuickBooks Live SaaS business. QuickBooks Live is an industry leading offering that connects small businesses and bookkeepers, creating a partnership that ensures perfect books for small businesses with no work.

Responsibilities

We are looking for driven creative problem solvers with a passion for finance and technology to join our Finance team and help scale a high growth dynamic business. This role is responsible for forecasting and scenario modeling a new service that establishes a 2-sided network of Bookkeeping. Main responsibilities include:

· Strategic Planning: Be a trusted advisor to the QuickBooks Live leadership team to develop and refine our 1- and 3-year strategic plans, proactively highlighting risk and opportunities related to business growth and drive optimal investment decisions through data-driven insights and business modeling expertise.

· Operational Excellence: Partner with the Marketing and Analytics teams to develop and monitor key performance indicators to drive insights and decision making in order to achieve our strategic and financial plans.

· Modeling: Create end-to-end financial models to analyze complex business scenarios that drive and inform our go-to-market strategy (e.g. promotion, pricing, new sales channel opportunities, product portfolio etc.) as well as supply-side expense forecast.

· Financial Reporting: Prepare financial reporting deliverables (month-end close package, variance explanation, etc.) to enable transparency into the business’s performance and drivers. Collaborate with cross-functional business partners and Accounting to ensure correct accounting treatment of transactional activities.

· Process Improvement: Drive efficiencies and continuous improvement by streamlining, standardizing and automating processes and reporting requirements.

· Team Coaching: Operate in a leader capacity, proactively influencing, leading & coaching within the Finance organization and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

· You are a qualified financial analyst, with strong analytical and modeling skills and a deep SaaS understanding. You also have demonstrable experience of acting as a business partner, supporting and challenging non-finance stakeholders. As this role involves constant interaction with senior non-finance stakeholders across the business, you need the confidence and emotional intelligence to effectively communicate at all levels. The ideal candidate has worked in the high-tech industry and enjoys operating in an extremely fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

· Ability to work in highly ambiguous environments and build solutions that can scale and flex with the business needs.

· Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Excel to analyze complex business scenarios by building/improving financial models. Hyperion Essbase experience preferred.

· Highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work independently in a fast pace environment, simultaneously manage several priorities, and challenge the status quo to lead change and operational improvements.

· Attention to details and ability to synthesize large volumes of data into insightful recommendations to exec leadership team.

· Ability to influence all levels of leadership to drive actions, behaviors, decisions and business outcomes.

· Ability to lead teams to deliver exceptional results and drive business growth.

· Exceptional track record of self-motivation, prioritization, initiative, and integrity.

· Strong written and oral communication skills with experience in presenting to business partners with confidence, conviction, and credibility.

· 6-8 years in FP&A roles and experience with SaaS/Cloud Computing.

· BS/BA in Finance or Accounting. MBA/CPA a plus.

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