FP&A Center of Excellence Team Lead
Menlo Park, CA, United States
You will be joining the FP&A Center of Excellence (COE) team that manages a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) team. The COE's Mission is to leverage scalable solutions to enable Meta FP&A to effectively centralize, standardize and optimize deliverables and processes to facilitate Meta's continued success. The COE is responsible for the daily FP&A operations and provides direct support to all finance managers. You need to have expert knowledge in finance and accounting operations. You will be at the forefront of managing the day-to-day operations of the outsourced vendor to help Finance continue to scale. You will play a critical role in the monthly close process, expense management, chart of account maintenance and financial management reporting for Meta businesses.
FP&A Center of Excellence Team Lead Responsibilities
Manage day-to-day operations of outsourced vendor ensuring offshore team delivers quality, timely work product.
Identify and track outsourced team performance metrics and develop strategies to improve performance and evaluate process steps.
Lead process improvement projects across FP&A teams to streamline and automate existing FP&A processes and tools.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams - including Accounting, Enterprise Engineering, Source-to-Pay, CW Management and HR.
Monitor and ensure Vendor Desktop Procedures (DTPs) are maintained with a high level of quality.
Be willing to "roll up your sleeves" and take on or teach operational tasks in support of the team's goals
Outsourced vendor scope of work includes: Own monthly and quarterly close process for FP&A including PO accruals, Reclass JEs and Flux (Actuals vs. Forecast) template rollover and refreshes to ensure close accuracy. Own daily approvals including Purchase Requisitions (PRs), Contractor (CWs) requests, and Meta FTE movements. Own headcount and expense reporting and budget management Metadata or Chart of Account management Purchase Order (PO) and Contractor (CWs) management
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent field
6+ years accounting or financial experience including operational roles (e.g, GL accounting, FP&A, etc.)
Prior working experience with a captive or outsourced accounting or finance team, or a COE function.
Experience learning new systems / tools and proactively look for opportunities to create operational efficiencies with existing processes
Experience working and problem solving independently, organizing workload and priorities, and completing tasks on time
Experience with Financial Tools / Systems, Excel / Google Sheets, PPT / Google Slides
Proven project management skills, analytics, and experience juggling multiple priorities
Interpersonal and communication skills, with attention to detail.
Preferred Qualifications
CPA or MBA
Experience in Oracle Financials, Hyperion Planning, EPM, EDM
Experience managing and training finance analysts
Experience leading large scale cross-functional projects
Experience working with dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Power BI, etc. Proficient in SQL
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