Finance Manager

A little about us

The Corporate FP&A team is the strategic engine driving financial discipline and business performance across Yahoo. We act as objective advisors to senior leadership, delivering deep analytical insights, managing company-wide planning cycles, and optimizing our capital and resource allocation. We operate in a highly collaborative, forward-thinking, and tech-driven environment where data-driven decision-making, operational agility, and modern productivity tools are at the core of how we work.

About the role
The Corporate FP&A Manager supports company-wide planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision support across corporate functions. This role partners with Finance leadership and cross-functional teams to drive budget and outlook cycles, deliver clear performance insights, and improve financial planning processes. The ideal candidate brings strong financial modeling, analytical rigor, and the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations.

Key responsibilities

• Lead annual budget, quarterly outlook, and long-range planning processes for assigned corporate areas

• Consolidate and analyze financial results, headcount, and operating expense trends; identify risks and opportunities

• Prepare variance analysis, management reporting, and executive-ready materials for Finance leadership

• Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in financial workflows, utilizing Claude AI to automate repetitive spreadsheet tasks, streamline forecast aggregation, and accelerate variance analysis

• Partner with business leaders, accounting, and operations teams to improve forecast accuracy and resource planning

• Build and maintain financial models, reporting tools, and dashboards to support business decisions

• Leverage generative AI assistants to synthesize qualitative operational reports from across business units, accelerating the creation of executive-ready financial summaries and narrative-driven variance commentaries

• Support ad hoc analysis on cost structure, investment tradeoffs, and strategic initiatives

• Drive process improvements that increase efficiency, consistency, and transparency across planning cycles
  Exercise rigorous analytical judgment to audit, refine, and validate all AI-generated financial outputs, ensuring absolute accuracy and alignment with corporate compliance and financial data governance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or related analytical roles

• Strong financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis skills

• Advanced Excel skills and strong proficiency in presentation development

• Proven experience or strong focus on using AI-augmented productivity tools (Claude, Gemini, or specialized AI extensions) to optimize financial data analysis, modeling, or reporting workflows

• Strong communication and business partnership skills, with the ability to influence across functions

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

• Experience supporting corporate functions or centralized FP&A

• Experience with headcount and operating expense planning

• Familiarity with financial planning systems and large-scale reporting environments

• An AI-forward mindset, characterized by an openness to experimentation, continuous learning, and adapting to rapidly evolving, AI-augmented corporate environments

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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