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Senior Financial Analyst - R&D Finance
AppleCupertino, California, United StatesSenior$140,700 - $211,400
Apply Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. If you love thinking analytically and are passionate about using your financial knowledge to navigate challenges, we'd love to hear from you!
Join the Apple Finance organization and make a positive impact at one of the most influential leaders in technology. You'll collaborate with a world-class team to fuel innovation, creating products that delight customers and drive change. Apple values integrity, accountability, teamwork, and proactive thinking, encouraging everyone to bring their unique ideas forward. Diversity of thought strengthens contributions, fostering an environment where you can do the best work of your life. By joining, you won’t just be part of something big—you’ll help shape it and make a lasting impact on the world.
This is an opportunity to join the Apple Engineering FP&A team as a Financial Analyst. Our team is responsible for driving the team’s forecast, annual plan, consolidation, and quarter-end close activities in parallel to providing critical analysis to support the company’s product roadmap and technology development decisions. Engineering Finance prepares, tracks, and evaluates performance metrics, provides business and financial analysis in addition to forecasting, reporting, and providing best-in-class business support to the Apple Engineering organization.
- Coordinate FP&A activities and deliverables related to monthly forecasts, quarterly Long Range Forecasts, Annual Plans and Quarter-End Close. This will include preparation of timely and accurate content for Executive reviews in order to provide key business drivers and insights on Engineering spend.
- Support profitability and line of business views of engineering investment. Create insightful views of spend to drive business decisions and help connect cost of development to products, technologies and/or features.
- Provide ad hoc financial support and broad collaboration with multiple teams across Apple, including; Corporate FP&A, Tax, Legal, M&A, Accounting, and global subsidiaries.
- Consolidate Headcount, OpEx and CapEx spend by engineering org, including variance analysis, management reporting and building/maintaining financial models for forecasting purposes.
- Own and drive the centralized R&D HC forecast and reporting processes
- Understand key drivers affecting the above processes and anticipate their effects on our processes, deliverables, and results as drivers change.
- Drive process optimization and system automation to enhance the productivity of the role with consistent use of AI tools for Finance
- 5 years of finance or other relevant work experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent required
- Strong finance and accounting background showing aptitude for understanding complex financial structures and translating into meaningful business drivers.
- Established financial experience performing budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis along with a track record of strong financial modeling.
- Outstanding attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and precision in financial analysis and reporting.
- Ability to work with high level of ambiguity and complexity
- Strong interpersonal skills with a proven track record with collaborating across diverse teams
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills for clearly presenting findings to key partners
- Demonstrated ability to automate and improve processes
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities; experience in Adaptive, Tableau, SAP, or FileMaker a plus