Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives. 

Our Commercial Finance team is a key business partner to the broader Sales and Business Operations organizations at Sonos. Our focus is to support these teams by leveraging data and analysis to inform decisions in support of profitable growth, balancing regional and total company goals for growth and profitability. This role will report to the Sr. Manager, Commercial Finance, EMEA. 

What You’ll Do 

• Support the European sales and operations teams in evaluating risks, opportunities, contract negotiations, business cases, and other initiatives, challenging where needed and always looking for ways to drive revenue, profitability and efficiency. 

• Leverage your commercial acumen to provide insightful financial analysis that drives strategic business decisions and outcomes. 

• Own our financial forecast assumptions and the monthly review of revenue actuals vs forecast and prior years analysis, working closely with our Accounting team to understand results and provide data.

• Work closely with the sales and operations teams to build, validate, and analyze our demand and financial forecast from a unit based and financial lens; identify and clearly communicate risks and opportunities for the region to our Core FP&A team in support of our quarterly earnings processes. 

• Build financial models that track performance, evaluate business cases and strategic decisions, and improve our forecast accuracy, that are scalable and repeatable.

• Ad hoc projects supporting key business partners within Finance, Accounting, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams with financial needs, analysis, and navigation through accounting and data. 

• Constantly explore ways to simplify, automate and improve Finance related business processes to drive simplicity and efficiency. Promote a process efficiency mindset with the team and nurture a culture of continuous improvement.

What You’ll Need 

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or similar field 

• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in FP&A, revenue accounting, operations, consulting, or related field working at a Global public company that operates in Consumer Products or Retail; 

• Knowledge of US GAAP accounting principles. 

• Proven track record of business partnering with commercial teams and influencing non-finance stakeholders 

• Experience with Revenue forecasting, reporting and financial planning process 

• Experience partnering with demand planning teams and basic understanding of retail partner margin agreements; basic budget management experience 

• Strong Excel/Google Sheets financial modeling and analysis skills 

Preferred Qualifications 

•  Experience working in FP&A in an omnichannel business that sells physical product 

• Self starter with a right first time mentality, a high level of attention to detail, a passion for collaborating with others, with the ability to focus on the highest priority requests 

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights. 

• Agile and adaptable approach to problem-solving, with the ability to balance detail-oriented execution and big-picture strategic thinking. 

• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills with a proven track record of driving strategic decisions across all levels of an organization 

• Demonstrated ability to present data and analysis at executive-level quality and a proven ability to work cross functionally, communicating with and working with people at all levels of the organization - Reduce

• Experience with financial tools such as Anaplan, SAP S/4HANA, Analytics for Office (AO), Tableau, SQL, or AI productivity tools 

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