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The Red Hat Finance team is looking for someone with extensive planning, reporting, and analytical experience to join us as a Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis. In this role, you will manage the overall financial planning and analysis function for our Asia Pacific region. You'll manage a team of three to five associates both in-country and in overseas locations, and support the Sales, Marketing, Services, and Finance teams in the Asia Pacific region. You will also use your financial and analytical expertise and budgeting experience throughout the organization to streamline and improve processes, and prepare, review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports.

• Work closely with line managers of corporate teams, as well as the country finance directors and other APAC finance managers
• Perform technical analysis to determine present and future operational performance
• Budget and monitor operating expenses
• Build country-level detailed budgets for individual countries in APAC
• Provide reports at the strategic, operational, and organizational levels
• Gather, analyze, prepare, and summarize recommendations for business plans, reporting activity, trended future requirements, and operating forecasts
• Work closely with headquarter finance teams for budgeting every quarter; based on guidance provided by the headquarter team on quarterly budget targets, build detailed budgets for all cost centers in APAC and reconcile any differences before closing out the budgeting cycle
• Responsible for fluctuation analysis of operational performance (budget to actual, period over period, and forecast to actual)

• Bachelor's degree in finance; CPA or MBA from an accredited institution is preferred
• 8-10 years of prior relevant planning, reporting, and analytical experience in IT MNC is preferred; 5-7 years of experience is essential
• Previous business analytics and expense budgeting experience
• Knowledge of and experience with Oracle or other ERP systems, as well as budgeting and reporting software like Hyperion, Business Objects, etc.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to make both oral and written presentations to management
• Experience working with large systems and data sets
• Good understanding of the US GAAP
• General understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley regulations