Senior Fp&a Analyst

**Location**: US East Coast

About TM Forum

TM Forum is an association of over 700+ member companies, which include all of the world’s top 10

network and communications providers and stretch across 180 countries. Our members tap into each

other’s collective experiences and abilities to collaboratively solve complex industry-wide challenges,

deploy new services, and create technology breakthroughs to accelerate change.

We help communications service providers (CSPs) and their suppliers to digitally transform and thrive

in the digital era. We do this by providing an open, collaborative environment and practical support

which enables CSPs and suppliers to rapidly transform their business operations, IT systems and

ecosystems to capitalize on the opportunities presented in a rapidly evolving digital world.

As our company has continued to grow, we are investing in the capabilities of our FP&A organization.

The Senior FP&A analyst will be responsible for utilizing data and analytical tools to provide insights

and support decision-making processes across the company.

You will report directly to the CFO, work closely with the Controller and will join an innovative finance

team working cross-functionally to support delivery of TM Forum’s vision and strategy.

The Senior FP&A analyst moves beyond compiling data and helps tell the story behind the numbers

by leveraging BI and FP&A systems to extract, transform, and analyze data from various sources to

create insightful models and actionable reports and dashboards.

**Responsibilities**:
Financial Planning & Analysis 70%
- Execute financial strategies by providing data-driven insights to enable growth and profitability
- Lead key FP&A processes: long-range planning, annual budgeting, and monthly forecasting

in partnership with Controllership, P&L owners, Commercial & Sales, Operations & HR teams
- Own financial modelling, provide quantitative and qualitative analysis of key variances and

trends and build fact-based business cases for strategic initiatives and critical business

decisions, including scenario planning
- Assembly and summarize data to structure sophisticated reports on financial status and risk

against Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and provide recommendations
- Actively participate in monthly Lines of Business (LoBs) commercial reviews to interpret and

evaluate business performance, including budget variances, and report key findings and

recommendations to the CFO
- Assists in financial analysis for informing pricing scenarios and business models
- Work closely with Controller to review financial close, ensuring accuracy and providing

actionable insights for management team
- Work with Executive and Senior Leadership Teams to prepare presentations for CFO, CEO,

Board and FinCom

Treasury Element 15%
- Develop and execute treasury strategies (e.g., risk management, treasury operations)
- Perform weekly cash management which includes concentration of funds, release of

electronic payments and operation of short-term investment portfolios
- Develop and maintain cash flow forecast (short-term & long-term) and investment strategies
- Analyze, monitor, and hedge foreign exchange exposures
- Monitor bank accounts and corporate credit cards transactions and process all requests on a

timely basis
- Assist with administering bank accounts including opening, closing, and modifying accounts,

updating authorized signers, bank mandates as needed
- Maintain strong banking relationships and partner with business owners and external auditors
- Outline and develop metrics of superior balance sheet management (B/S analysis and

working capital productivity)

Business Intelligence (BI) 10%
- Conduct industry benchmarking and provide global economic market insights
- Liaise with internal Research team to provide market analysis and develop financial models to

interpret the data into financial opportunities and/or risks
- Collaborate with Data &Technology, Commercial & controllership teams to ensure data

integrity and accuracy
- Partner with the Data &Technology team to develop processes to extract, transform, and

ingest data from various data sources into a centralized data warehouse
- Using large data sets be able to come up with meaningful analytics that drive the numbers of

the business going forward
- Partner with CFO to develop standardized KPIs & dashboards

Ad Hoc 5%
- Support ad-hoc projects and analysis requests to senior management.
- Assists with annual audits and corporate insurance risk management in partnership with legal

counsel and Controllership
- Drive process improvement and policy development initiatives that impact the function

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics
- Seven or more years of work experience, minimum of 3 years’ experience in roles with FP&A

accountability
- Experience in the technology and/or telecommunications industry is a plus
- Experience with business in