Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

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Reporting to the Corporate Vice President of Corporate Planning Finance Transformation Tax & Treasury the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) will lead the companys enterprise-wide financial planning forecasting performance management and decision-support capabilities. This executive will serve as a key finance leader and strategic partner to senior management helping translate business strategy into financial plans resource allocation decisions and measurable operating outcomes.

The Corporate Head of FP&A will lead the development of the companys long-range financial plans annual operating plans quarterly forecasts and executive performance reporting. This role will oversee corporate-level financial analysis across a complex global business and drive greater consistency speed rigor and insight across the FP&A organization.

The successful candidate will combine deep financial expertise with strong business acumen operational discipline executive presence and the ability to influence senior leaders across a highly dynamic technology and manufacturing environment.

Enterprise Financial Leadership

• Lead the corporate FP&A function and establish the vision operating model talent strategy and capabilities required to support a global technology-driven enterprise.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CFO CEO executive leadership team and Board on financial performance planning business trends risks and opportunities.
• Translate corporate strategy into actionable financial plans performance targets and resource allocation decisions.
• Drive an integrated planning process that connects strategy operational plans investments headcount capital deployment and financial outcomes.

Planning Forecasting and Performance Management

• Lead the companys long-range planning annual operating plan quarterly forecast and monthly performance management processes.
• Develop robust forecasting methodologies that improve visibility into revenue gross margin operating expenses profitability cash flow and capital requirements.
• Establish clear financial and operating KPIs dashboards and management reporting that enable timely decision-making.
• Lead variance analysis and performance reviews identifying underlying business drivers and recommending corrective actions when appropriate.
• Ensure planning processes appropriately reflect changing market conditions customer demand technology cycles supply chain dynamics and other external factors.
• Partner with business and operations leaders on cost structure productivity and spend-efficiency programs and on working capital and cash conversion performance against plan.

Strategic and Business Decision Support

• Provide rigorous financial analysis and decision support for major strategic initiatives investments acquisitions capital allocation decisions and growth opportunities.
• Partner with business unit leaders to evaluate financial performance strategic priorities and investment requirements.
• Develop scenario planning and sensitivity analyses to assess risks and opportunities across multiple business environments.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and provide independent fact-based perspectives to improve decision quality.
• Support the quarterly earnings cycle in partnership with Investor Relations and Accounting including guidance development consensus and street-model reconciliation and the financial narrative provided to external stakeholders.

Financial Transformation and Process Excellence

• Drive the modernization and continuous improvement of FP&A processes systems data and reporting capabilities.
• Increase automation standardization and self-service analytics to improve the speed and quality of financial insights.
• Establish consistent planning methodologies and governance across corporate and business-unit FP&A teams.
• Partner with Finance IT Data & Analytics and other functions to strengthen data integrity planning tools and enterprise reporting capabilities.
• Own the FP&A technology roadmap across the enterprise ERP (SAP) and enterprise planning platforms (e.g. Anaplan OneStream) partnering with IT to ensure planning models hierarchies and master data remain aligned to the financial architecture.
• Champion the responsible adoption of AI and machine learning within the finance function including driver-based and predictive forecasting anomaly detection narrative reporting and analyst productivity with appropriate governance data controls and human review.
• Foster a culture of analytical rigor accountability operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Leadership and Talent Development

• Build lead and develop a high-performing global FP&A organization.
• Attract retain and develop finance talent with strong analytical strategic and business-partnering capabilities.
• Establish clear expectations performance standards and career development pathways across the FP&A team.
• Promote collaboration across Corporate Finance business-unit finance teams Accounting Investor Relations Treasury Tax and other key stakeholders.

At Applied Materials Make Possible is about unlocking new opportunities with our customers and within our own company.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics Business or a related discipline; MBA CPA CMA or other advanced credentials preferred.
• 15 years of progressive finance experience including significant leadership responsibility in FP&A corporate finance strategic finance or business finance.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-level planning forecasting budgeting and performance management processes for a large complex global organization.
• Experience supporting senior executives and influencing high-level strategic and operational decisions.
• Strong understanding of financial statements key performance drivers capital allocation cash flow and return-on-investment analysis.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale finance transformation process improvement systems implementation or analytics initiatives.
• Experience in the semiconductor advanced technology industrial manufacturing or other complex global industries strongly preferred.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for executive audiences.
• Strong leadership communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to influence across functions and organizational levels.
• Deep working knowledge of enterprise ERP environments particularly SAP (ECC and/or S/4HANA) including financial data structures cost center and profit center hierarchies and reporting extraction.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise planning and performance management platforms such as Anaplan OneStream SAP Analytics Cloud Oracle EPM or equivalent including model design implementation and adoption at scale.
• Strong working knowledge of AI applications for enterprise finance functions including predictive and driver-based forecasting generative AI for reporting and commentary and agentic automation of recurring analysis together with a practical understanding of the data quality governance and control requirements these tools demand.
• Proficiency with modern data and visualization tooling (e.g. Power BI Tableau) and a working understanding of enterprise data warehouse and data governance concepts.

We are a catalyst to unlock the power of our customers ideas and are committed to overcoming challenges that seem insurmountable.

To succeed in this role requires a capacity for complexity and temperament that includes:

• A very mature individual with the right balance of confidence and humility.
• Exceptional ability to absorb and handle stress.
• Process oriented while also strongly developing and relying on interpersonal relationships across the company
• Ability to connect equally well upwards downwards and sideways in the organization
• Self-motivated and driven towards excellence
• A high level of EQ to be able to manage across a large team with significant diversity
• An inspiring leader
• Analyzing processing and decision-making based on multidisciplinary and multi-functional data sources that could frequently be incomplete.
• Ability to distinguish between and prioritizing urgent and important issues
• Situational awareness and complex decision-making ability appropriate for the situation

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The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location hire grade job-related knowledge skills experience and with consideration of internal equity of our current team addition to a comprehensive benefits package candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program as applicable.

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