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Description
Employer: SunPower
Position: Finance & Marketing Analytics Manager
Finance & Marketing Analytics Manager
What We Do
The solar electric industry is an exciting and rapidly growing business, providing excellent career opportunities and the great satisfaction of having a positive impact on the environment. SunPower Corp. designs, manufactures and delivers high-performance solar electric technology worldwide. SunPower's high-efficiency solar cells and panels generate up to 50 percent more power per unit area than conventional solar technologies and have a uniquely attractive, all-black appearance. SunPower has one of the largest installed bases of solar systems worldwide at over 200 megawatts. For more information on SunPower please visit the SunPower website at www.sunpowercorp.com.
Description:
This role combines business thinking, analytical skills and technical expertise to perform information analysis and decision support.
Responsibilities:
Finance Analytics
• Manage annual global marketing budget planning process, in alignment with revenue goals and market share goals.
• Manage and continuously improve global Marketing expense forecasting process, efficiency metrics and reporting with a focus on:
o optimizing spend and visibility
o highlighting areas of concern/deviation and recommending corrective action
o providing monthly variance analysis/commentaries
o using an ROI-based approach
• Aggregate and analyze marketing ROI globally (efficiency metrics, lead generation and pipeline).
• Forecast the impact of budget on lead generation requirements.
• Manage the month-end Close process for the Marketing organizations supported
Marketing Analytics
• Manage, assess and aggregate lead generation requirements and pipeline management success metrics globally to ensure the delivery of global revenue goals.
• Tracking expenses from “Lead†to “close†of new business, and ability to speak and justify allocation of expense (ROI).
• Data manipulation, mathematical, and statistical modeling to analyze sales and/or marketing efforts to maximize financial results.
• Perform multivariate analytics; create promotional response models
• Provide expert analysis and advice on strategic and tactical sales and marketing efforts
• Perform forecasting and post-mortem analysis of marketing programs and present to marketing partners the results including key findings.
• Support development of new database marketing campaigns by designing test methodology, building predictive models, developing list selection criteria and defining mailing parameters
• Identify, evaluate and assimilate cutting edge technology and software to keep company at forefront of analytical and quantitative capability
Minimum Requirements:
• BS degree/or equivalent in business, finance, marketing, science, mathematics or other quantitative field. MBA or MS preferred
• Experience in entrepreneurial, high-growth, fast paced environment. Alternative energy a plus.
• Strong analytical skills with at least 8 years of financial forecasting, budgeting and analysis experience -including both variance analysis and forecasting
• Knowledge of UNIX, relational databases and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) tools
• Knowledge of project management techniques.
• Requires knowledge of data mining, data analysis and data modeling techniques
• Ability to translate knowledge into effective models for budgeting and forecasting
• Strong customer service and presentation skills with the ability to work and communicate well within a team environment and with others of different disciplines
• Experience working in a global matrix organizations including experience influencing others
• Experience delivering findings to Sr. Leaders within groups/B.U.
• Proficient with MS Office and extremely strong Excel skills, including pivot tables and lookup functions
Preferred Qualifications:
• Direct marketing experience including email, web and mail
• Understanding of relational databases and usage of large data sets
• Familiarity with Siebel OnDemand, Salesforce.com, or other BI software
• Oracle experience
• SAS experience
• Thorough knowledge of advanced analytical/data management techniques; forecasting, portfolio optimization, promotional response modeling, call planning, etc.
• Accounting experience
SunPower offers an attractive compensation package that consists of a competitive salary and equity. The company offers an array of employee benefits.
If you are interested in being part of our family, please apply online at http://www.sunpowercorp.com/careers . No phone calls please.
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