Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Western Digital as a Sr. Financial Analyst and manage the complex budget process. Partner with senior executives and HR teams to forecast spending and resource needs, develop budgets, and set targets. Responsibilities include reporting, managing budget close activities, approving spending, monitoring performance, and preparing management reports. You will also provide ad-hoc analysis, propose process improvements, and support budgeting initiatives. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance (MBA and CPA highly desirable), 3-4 years of relevant experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and proficiency in MS Excel and other financial tools. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance
• 3-4 years related experience with Fortune 500 companies
• A great team player, a dynamic/motivated/results-oriented critical thinker with positive energy and proactive business approach
• Excellent analytical and financial modeling skills with close attention to detail and accuracy
• High proficiency with MS Excel (pivot tables, advanced formulas, macros, and charts to develop custom reports and dashboards) and Powerpoint
• Experience using a large ERP system
• Strong organizational and executive communication skills
• Willingness and ability to learn and adapt to rapid business and organizational changes as needed

Responsibilities

• Partnering with senior executives and management teams across the HR organization to forecast spend $ and resource needs, to develop budgets and set targets
• Reporting duties not limited to Shared expense ownership, HC and other ad-hoc reporting needs
• Managing all budget-related close activities and prepare all required close packages (monthly/qtrly/annual)
• Approving SCs and P.O.s and partnering with Corporate Accounting to ensure correct accounting treatment of transactional activities
• Monitoring performance and preparing meaningful and informational management reports and variance analysis on a regular basis
• Providing ad-hoc analysis and reporting to support budgeting and resource needs as needed
• Proposing improvement opportunities to enhance financial visibility, control and planning effectiveness
• Leveraging the financial and budgeting systems to further scale current process and enhance efficiency
• Leading and/or assisting Budgeting related initiatives as needed to help build/enhance business capabilities for finance and key business partners
• Day to day support including general administrative duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA and CPA
• Semiconductor and High Tech industry experience
• PowerBI or Tableau

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents