Finance Business Partner (NAM GEO)

DASSAULT SYSTEMES (3DS), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides businesses and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Serving over 250,000 clients in 12 industries, from high-tech to life sciences, fashion to transportation, we help businesses and people around the world to create sustainable innovations for today and tomorrow.

Our North American Sales organization is a major contributor to our Global business, with more than $1B in revenue, a direct responsibility over 700 employees and shared responsibility over an additional 300 employees.

As a Finance Business Partner you will interact directly with our Sales Management to provide the full suite of financial support and reporting. It is a multi-product line, multi-industry organization, and as such, you will interact with a large ecosystem to participate in the definition of our strategic plan and the monitoring of its execution. Reporting to the Senior Director of FP&A for Sales Performance in North America, you will work in close proximity with other members of the NAM FP&A team who are in charge of our direct and indirect sales organizations. We will ask you to serve as business partner to our largest sales organization, with a focus on automating and leveraging a full suite of data analytics tools.

You will support financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for our North American Sales Organization and will provide GEO level insights on the top line:

• Lead data analysis for the business unit, using complex data and problem solving.
• Contribute to automation of manual data gathering processes to afford more time for analysis. Promote adoption of new technology to gain in relevance and efficiency.
• Lead the planning cycle for the business unit, including the strategic planning, annual operating plan, and quarterly forecasts in a matrixed financial environment (requires alignment with other business segments such as product lines, industry groups or marketing)
• Contribute to our weekly business reviews, working jointly with our sales and business operations group to ensure accurate deal tracking and conversion from bookings to revenue
• Analyze financial and business performance against key business metrics and identify pertinent financial highlights, enabling understanding of progress against strategic business plans and highlighting risks and opportunities
• Be a thought leader and partner with management to drive finance discipline, fact-based decision-making, and financial visibility across the organization through the extensive use of financial models
• Create ad hoc analysis to support key business decisions and contract negotiations