EMEA FP&A Manager

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Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
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Make Your Mark:
As BlackLine continues to build Finance capabilities that accelerate growth and optimize value, we are looking for a Manager FP&A planning, budget & Strategy EMEA , located in Veenendaal (Utrecht), the Netherlands. The role will help establish and execute a vision for driving strategic insights, dashboards, planning, financial modeling, and advanced analytics capabilities that drive the company. This role straddles operations, project and process management. Success requires wearing many hats, operating in ambiguous settings, listening to all stakeholders and thinking in solutions, in organizational structures, and business reporting. We are seeking a strong analytical and system savvy thinker that can help elevate analysis to support decision making, accuracy and transparency for management. You are the primary go to person in EMEA for analytics and forecasts, working in conjunction with the US FP&A team. You will be reporting to the sr Director EMEA Finance and will have a dotted line into the VP FP&A in the US.
You'll Get To:

• Partner with FP&A leadership to establish the FP operating plan and financial objectives for the FP business.
• Develop performance criteria and establish reporting of KPIs for measuring execution of sales and product management priorities across ITC products and core BlackLine functions that FP teams depend on.
• Develop financial inputs and tracking process to support the rhythm of the business mechanisms (e.g., monthly business reviews) to ensure key stakeholders remain accountable to critical milestones within the FP business plan for the ITC pillar.
• Deep dive variances to sales and margin plans
• Assess resources (investments, people, and training) being allocated across BL and identify opportunities to more efficiently deliver initiatives through facilitating dialogue between stakeholders and ongoing reassessment of team priorities and needs
• Develop dashboards and financial models
• Iteration and change management-This role straddles operations, project and process management. Success requires wearing many hats, listening to all stakeholders, and inventing solutions that may require adaptations to organizational structure, process, and business reporting.
• Technical savvy-Lack of accessible data is a significant obstacle. The role requires a scrappy approach and a scale mindset to quickly gather data inputs from disparate and unstructured data sources to highlight issues/opportunities and translate solutions into scalable tools that can deliver routine reporting on performance. BlackLine's product suite is built for the office of the CFO, hence understanding the BlackLine product capabilities, and investigating use cases where we can further leverage BlackLine products is expected of the role.
• Collaboration and empathy- Influencing stakeholders with limited "skin in the game" is expected as success will require establishing awareness, enablement, and prioritization for FP initiatives that do not exist today, establishing partnership across functions, and being an advocate for the FP business. Accomplishing this requires building a network of allies, partnering with EMEA based leadership, frequently escalating when issues arise, and building closed-loop processes to reduce execution gaps.
• Establishing boundaries and accountability-Flexible working attitude is required, since teams and internal stakeholders span across time zones from GMT to PST. Developing a cadence for aligning priorities, tasks, and reviewing deliverables are required. Communicating frequently with stakeholders to ensure critical milestones are being prioritized and tasks executed on time.
• Experience with commercial sales or leading commercial finance preferred.

What You'll Bring:
Years of Experience in Related Field: 5-8 years' experience in finance, fintech or other tech financial planning and analysis roles
Education: University or Business School graduate. MBA preferred
Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Advanced excel and powerpoint required; competency in data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau), sales databases (e.g. Salesforce), and financial planning systems (e.g. Adaptive) preferred.
We're Even More Excited If You Have:

• Experience with Adaptive Insights, NetSuite, Zuora, Salesforce, Tableau and other SaaS-based tools a plus

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.