Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Western Digital's HDD R&D organization as a Finance/Accounting professional. Collaborate with senior executives and management teams, managing all aspects of organizational spending. Drive key expense analysis, support R&D reporting, and utilize Clarity PPM for project budgeting. Focus on process improvement and support ad-hoc initiatives. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting with 5-10 years of experience and strong communication and collaboration skills. Proficiency in SmartView, Oracle, Excel, and PowerPoint is essential. An MBA is preferred.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting with 5-10 years of relevant experience
• Ability to build and cultivate strong relationships and be seen as a valued business partner
• Exhibits solid communication, collaboration and presentation skills
• Team focused with good interpersonal skills
• Systems and tools skills required: SmartView, Oracle, Excel, and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• Collaborate as a trusted business partner within the HDD R&D org, including interacting with senior executives and their respective management teams
• Manage all aspects of spending for the organization, including but not limited to, expense management, quarterly/annual forecasts, variance analysis, monthly close, and management reporting
• Drive key analysis on expense trends and metrics
• Support R&D consolidation reporting process and quarterly executive package for summarizing and analyzing R&D spending
• Work closely with business partners in utilizing Clarity PPM (project budgeting tool)
• Focus on process enhancements and continuous improvement
• Support ad-hoc initiatives for R&D organization

Preferred Qualifications

MBA

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, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance
• Annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
• RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires