Senior Manager - Finance Process, Data, and Systems Analysis

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Role

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Role Overview

The Senior Manager of Finance Process, Data, and Systems Analysis is a strategic role responsible for driving the analysis and optimization of financial processes, data management, and business systems to help scale for continued business growth. In this capacity, you will build and lead a small but mighty team that partners with Finance stakeholders to conduct process maturity assessments, redesign workflows, identify and implement process automations, and document business system requirements and data flows. 

As a leader in this emerging function, you must have the ability to be strategic and also dive into the details yourself such as hands-on program management, documenting workflows, defining requirements, etc. You will leverage your Finance and technical knowledge and build effective partnerships with Finance, Product and Engineering teams to deliver transformation initiatives and enhance operational efficiency across the organization. This position is highly visible and requires collaborating with all levels of the organization and working with global teams. This position can be based in either Los Angeles or Los Gatos and may at times require travel to additional office locations, including international travel.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

• Collaborate with global finance leaders to align policies and standardize finance processes across geographies and business verticals.

• Influence policy and process decisions to maximize the effectiveness of systems without unnecessary customization.

• Manage cross-functional relationships to promote and align on consistent global solutions and drive digital transformation.

• Work with teams outside of Finance to understand upstream and downstream process and system impacts and influence positive change of end-to-end processes.

Process, Data and Systems Analysis 

• Lead process maturity assessments to uncover workflow, data and system gaps to inform transformation roadmaps. 

• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to map end-to-end processes and evaluate opportunities for standardization, optimization, and automation.

• Utilize standard Business Process Management (BPM) tools to document current and future state processes, identify maturity gaps, and propose automation opportunities.

• Conduct thorough root cause analyses to identify underlying issues and recommend effective solutions.

• Analyze data sources and flows to address data quality issues and make informed data governance recommendations.

• Work with business subject matter experts to document requirements, use cases and facilitate UAT.

Process Automation and Innovation

•  Lead process optimization and automation initiatives.

• Leverage automation technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning (ML), and Intelligent Document Automation to enhance operational efficiency.

•  Partner with Product & Engineering to build competencies in Generative AI within Finance, and develop self-service models to boost productivity for finance users. 

Team Leadership and Development

•  Hire, mentor, and lead a team of business systems, data, and process analysts.

•  Enhance the function’s maturity by developing tools/templates and providing education to peers and business partners.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Information Systems, or a related field; a graduate degree is a plus.

• 12+ years of experience in business systems analysis and process automation.

• 5+ years leading a team of business and process analysts

• Proven track record in conducting process maturity assessments and standardizing global processes.

• Proficiency with Business Process Modeling tools.

• Deep knowledge of Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Record to Report processes

• Deep experience collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to deliver intelligent automations 

• Hands-on experience partnering with Product and Engineering implementing software solutions (such as ERPs) for Finance

• Familiarity with emerging GenAI tools for Finance

• Business Process Management certification is advantageous.

• Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma is an asset

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $220,000 - $610,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.