Senior Financial Analyst

Job Category: Finance

Location: US - Massachusetts - Waltham

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Meet Our Team:

As a key contributor to the Pega Finance team, you will report directly into our Director of Finance supporting our Cloud and Product R&D Organizations. This role will act as the finance partner to teams who drive the core engagement strategies of our business with well-engineered, market-drive service products.

This role will be hybrid out of Pega's Waltham, MA office at least 1 day per week.

Picture Yourself at Pega:

Pega is changing the way the world builds software. In this role, you will be the go-to person supporting the Product teams on a day-to-day basis. You will develop relationships across the organization that you can leverage to manage, build and maintain budgets, forecasts and provide decision support. This is your chance to join a world class, growing finance group and be able to leverage both your Accounting and FP&A background while advancing your career.

What You'll Do at Pega:

• Use your expertise and business acumen to provide business performance analysis that expands management’s understanding of business results.

• Help plan and manage the business by leadings the traditional finance processes, including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

• Add value to the business by providing financial analysis and recommendations on proposed tactical and strategic proposals.

• Be a fully engaged business partner to the Product teams, offering business guidance and advice.

• Be a strong communicator who can partner across different areas of the business.

• Support the Accounting close process by reviewing results, developing accruals, and providing both qualitative and quantitative analytical support.

Who You Are:

You are a results-oriented professional that enjoys helping plan and manage a business and solve complex problems. The ideal candidate will be hard working, detailed oriented and possess a strong problem-solving orientation and a helpful attitude.

• You have been a key contributor to senior executives on operating issues.

• Demonstrated a strong in depth understanding and implementation of strategic plans.

• Partnered with various business units to provide deep financial analysis to reach critical business decisions.

• You are a team player with a service-oriented approach to work.

• You have a strong grasp of the forecasts/budgets you manage and can have meaningful conversations about those forecasts/budgets with the businesses units you support.

What You've Accomplished:

• BS/BA in Accounting/Finance

• 5-7 years of finance support experience with demonstrated experience supporting a business teams in a business partner role

• Strong financial analysis and financial reporting skills and experience

• Experience with P&L analysis and ROI analysis

• Proficiency with SAP, Adaptive Insights, MS Office tools, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PowerBI

• Strong communications and presentation skills

• Demonstrated potential to support and influence senior business management

Pega Offers You:

• Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products

• Continuous learning and development opportunities

• An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment

• Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company

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Job ID: 21013

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