Revenue Lead (B5)

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As a key finance business partner the candidate will anticipate internal external regulatory business challenges and actively influence management with critical analysis and sound business advice. This role focuses on all aspects of revenue from opportunity to recognition. It collaborates with various cross-functional organizations globally and requires the ability to provide solutions to complex problems. Works independently to support a large volume organization that is diverse complex and growing with a diverse set of new and existing products serving high share applications to commodity type applications.

Major Responsibilities

This is a dynamic role that will enable the candidate to lead financial analysis and revenue management in partnership with Operations. The position requires an individual who is eager to work across functions and levels to provide valued Finance support business partnering with executive management team; primary finance partner for Business Management and Business Management Operations organizations

Planning Forecasting & Executive Narratives

• Lead revenue planning and execution across all financial cycles (Commit QBR SR2 AOP) including revenue lockdown governance override approvals documentation and audit-trail change control for key assumptions.
• Drive forecast accuracy and driver-based analytics (bookings-to-revenue flow and margin/GM bridges) and translate insights into actions for BU/Segment leadership.
• Deliver executive-ready revenue and pricing narratives for quarterly business reviews (Targets vs. latest estimate Risks & Opportunities account/product drivers) with clear owners and next actions.

Pricing Governance & Deal Execution

• Drive pricing execution and value capture by maintaining the pricing waterfall/plan each cycle quantifying impacts to revenue GM% and margin dollars and closing gaps to targets.

• Enforce target pricing and price-list governance by reviewing requests for reasonableness vs. targets/benchmarks challenging outliers and ensuring exceptions follow required approval paths.
• Approve commercial submissions and pricing requests by validating target price last-sold price discount/incentive structure and key commercial terms (warranty payment deliverables) per policy.
• Execute deal profitability analysis and scenario modeling with Business Management and Sales including Large Order Deals and incentive structures to optimize margin and revenue timing.

Revenue Recognition & Variable Consideration

• Ensure revenue recognition readiness from opportunity to recognition by confirming commercial terms performance obligations and documentation support auditability and timely close.

• Own variable consideration and revenue adjustments end-to-end (purchase credits incentives deal-expiration releases and revenue recognition) including quarterly impact modeling policy compliance and coordination with Accounting.
• Quarterly reconciling of actuals vs. forecast explaining variances and updating forward-looking assumptions.
• Govern revenue recognition execution and forecasting by validating inputs monitoring utilization quantifying revenue/margin impact and coordinating actions to prevent quarter Close surprises.

Operating Rhythm & Cross-Functional Execution

• Run the weekly revenue/pricing operating rhythm including cadence meetings action tracking and cross-functional alignment.

• Oversee revenue-type and business unit override execution by identifying gaps/outliers validating assumptions documenting rationale ensuring timely system updates and managing reversals as risks clear.

Close Controls & Process Excellence

• Perform data integrity and controls checks across revenue margin credits and turns (outliers missing rev/cost mapping/tagging issues) and drive root-cause and corrective actions through close.

• Support month/quarter close deliverables tied to revenue bookings billing backlog analysis market share forecast and pricing by reconciling key bridges validating reserve entries and resolving issues across Finance/Accounting.
• Standardize and streamline recurring revenue/pricing processes (templates trackers standard work dashboards) to reduce cycle time improve transparency and strengthen governance.
• Enable stakeholders on revenue/pricing processes policies and tools to ensure consistent execution.

Key Competencies

• Business Acumen business/financial concepts processes and practices for sound decisions
• Business Partnering - creating a real and active partnership with both operations and management. Provide real time support and analysis to add value in decision making
• Data Analytics - data analysis tools to sort through and analyze data to identify factors impacting performance and to gain greater insight into trends
• Data Gathering/Reporting - tools techniques and processes for gathering/reporting data for measuring business results objectives & strategies
• Financial Forecasting & Modeling - processes tools and techniques for exploring and evaluating alternative financial scenarios and results
• Flexibility & Adaptability - approaches tools and techniques for dealing with a changing environment
• Influencing - ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization
• Initiative - self-motivation ability and drive to seek out work and accomplish goals
• Org Change Management effect change in an organization; ability to manage successful transition from current to desired culture practices structure and environment
• Problem Solving/Critical Thinking - approaches tools techniques for solving problems & making sound recommendations
• Very strong Excel skills including modeling and using AI Agents
• Strong communication including presentation skills
• Basic or intermediate accounting knowledge

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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.

For all sales roles the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

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