Business Analyst, Fp&A Center Of Excellence

You will be joining the FP&A Center of Excellence (COE) team that manages a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) team. The COE's Mission is to leverage scalable solutions to enable Meta FP&A to effectively centralize, standardize and optimize deliverables and processes to facilitate Meta's continued success. The COE is responsible for the daily FP&A operations and provides direct support to all finance managers. You need to have expert knowledge in finance and accounting operations. You will be at the forefront of managing the day-to-day operations of the outsourced vendor to help Finance continue to scale. You will play a critical role in the monthly close process and in headcount and expense management for Meta businesses.

• Create new and maintain existing dashboard reports to streamline FP&A processes Ability to create new dashboard leveraging SQL queries to retrieve data. Ensuring dashboard has navigation and filtering capabilities
• Manage day-to-day operations of outsourced vendor ensuring offshore team delivers quality, timely work product
• Outsourced vendor scope of work includes: Own monthly and quarterly close process for FP&A including PO accruals and Reclass JEs to ensure close accuracy. Own daily approvals include Purchase Requisitions, Contingent Worker requests, and Meta FTE movements. Own headcount and expense reporting and budget management Metadata or Chart of Account management
• Identify and track outsourced team performance metrics and develop strategies to improve performance and evaluate process steps.
• Lead process improvement projects across FP&A teams to streamline, automate existing FP&A processes and tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams - including Accounting, Enterprise Engineering, Source-to-Pay, and HR. Ensure Vendor Desktop Procedures (DTPs) are updated accordingly.
• Be willing to "roll up your sleeves" and take on or teach operational tasks in support of the team's goals

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent field
• Experience working with dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Power BI, etc. Proficient in SQL
• Experience with Financial Tools / Systems, Excel / Google Sheets, PPT / Google Slides
• 4+ years accounting or financial experience including operational roles (e.g, GL accounting, FP&A, etc.)
• Prior working experience with a captive or outsourced accounting and finance team, or a COE function.
• Experience learning new systems / tools and proactively look for opportunities to create operational efficiencies with existing processes
• Experience working and problem solving independently, organizing workload and priorities, and completing tasks on time
• Effective project management skills, analytics, and the experience to juggle multiple priorities
• Interpersonal and communication skills, with proven attention to detail.

• CPA or MBA
• Experience in Oracle Financials and Hyperion Planning
• Experience managing and training finance analysts
• Experience leading large scale cross-functional projects