At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing technologies that solve business problems. We’re a billion dollar S&P 500 company offering solutions from Linux to middleware, storage to cloud, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services.

The Red Hat Finance team is seeking someone with planning, reporting, and analytical experience to join us as a Services Finance Manager. In this role, you will manage a team of financial analysts and project coordinators. You'll prepare, review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports, in addition to performing technical analysis to determine present and future operational performance. As a Services Finance Manager, you will also gather, analyze, prepare, and summarize recommendations for business plans, reporting activity, trended future requirements, and operating forecasts. We'll need you to have financial and analytical expertise and apply this throughout the organization, focusing specifically on the Services business.

• Use your expense budgeting experience to streamline and improve processes within the organization
• Work with line managers of APAC Services
• Budget and monitor operating expenses
• Build country-level detailed budgets for Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Singapore, and China
• Provide reports at the strategic, operational, and organizational level
• 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