Business Operations Associate - Global Marketing Solutions - Facebook (California)
Intro:
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.
Summary:
Finance and Business Planning is a highly mission driven organization - our mission is to enable Facebook to plan, prioritize, and execute as effectively as possible. We take a uniquely long-term view towards business problems. It is critical that we operate with an independent and objective perspective, and are comfortable representing our point of view to our partners and executive stakeholders. We serve as financial advisers to our business partners and own shared business goals and results where appropriate. We strive to balance our responsibility to support business partners with our responsibility to serve the long-term mission and sustainability of Facebook Inc. and act as stewards of company resources. This role requires strategic thinking, building connections and influencing stakeholders through effective communication, an analytical mindset, and a bias towards action. You will be challenged to understand and contribute to rapidly changing business models, drive collaboration across teams, develop recommendations on strategic investment decisions, craft annual and long range plans, and partner with product and business leaders to solve problems and achieve goals. Our promise: you will gain invaluable experience in a position that offers significant responsibility, interaction with product and business leaders, and an opportunity to have a big impact.
Required Skills:
1. Support strategic decisions via data analysis
2. Provide deep analytic support and business context to identify and drive critical growth initiatives
3. Demonstrate the ability to influence outcomes and decisions (not just report on analytics)
4. Analyze current business performance and build statistical models to extrapolate current and historical trends into forward-looking forecasts
5. Help build annual and long-range business & monetization outlooks
6. Develop and present objective Finance recommendations to stakeholders
7. Work cross functionally with a broad set of Product and Business managers and leaders
8. Ensure revenue trends are well understood via regular reporting and analysis and develop accurate forecasts to drive accountability and to inform investor guidance
Minimum Qualifications:
9. 4+ years of experience in business strategy or finance
10. BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Economics, Statistics, or related discipline
11. Experience building financial models with high degree of accuracy
12. Experience with SQL
13. Experience shifting priorities quickly, while maintaining a high degree of organization and control
14. Highly motivated and experience multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment
15. Experience synthesizing data insights and problem solving
Preferred Qualifications:
16. Experience working in a complex, fast-paced environment
**Industry:** Internet
**Equal Opportunity:** Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.
* This article was originally published here