Guidewire Software (NYSE: GWRE) is a leading provider of software solutions to the global property-casualty insurance industry. We have pursued one mission from our founding as a company in 2001: to be the pre-eminent provider of next-generation core systems — policy, claims, and billing — to the global property-casualty industry. All of our employees understand that we serve only one industry and strive to solve one problem: to enable insurance carriers to migrate completely from legacy systems to a modern core system platform. We are expanding our business in order to assist our customers in transforming their businesses and to ensure that each one is successful in this journey. Our investments range from expanding our professional consulting services to providing new instant-on cloud based applications.

FP&A Team
Our FP&A team plays an integral role with regard to Guidewire’s current operations, our growth objectives, and the broader finance organization. FP&A has an important seat at the table with the CEO, CFO, and leadership team as it relates to the creation of enterprise value by identifying opportunities and risks by providing critical information and analysis to make high-quality operating and strategic decisions. We operate in globally with plans to drive our growth through organic initiatives as well as acquisitions and partnerships. Our FP&A partners with business leaders to develop business models and, operational and strategic plans to align with our priorities. The FP&A team receives a lot of exposure with opportunities to influence the long term direction of the company including how we license and sell our software, consulting, and cloud services.

Opportunity
The Manager of Corporate Finance will provide key support to the Director of FP&A. As our company continues to grow, the role of FP&A continues to grow and evolve alongside with it. We are looking for someone who has a range of skills or wants to develop them quickly. Specifically, we are looking for a sharp finance professional who knows and wants to do things more quickly, more efficiently, and more effectively; we are looking for someone who can provide crisp analysis internally; we are looking for someone who has no problem getting her hands dirty in helping improve our systems as we continue to grow. In short, we are looking for someone who is excited to use and further develop their finance skillset at a corporate level while contributing to the growth and success of Guidewire and the FP&A team.

In this role, you will:

  • Own the relationship and be the finance representative of multiple G&A departments (e.g., IT, Security, Finance, Facilities, HR, and Recruiting). Ensure effective communication across groups and with finance as each team drives toward their separate goals as well as support these departments in the month-end close.
  • Work across the worldwide finance team to develop, prepare, and deliver accurate, timely, and insightful management reporting including executive and Board level presentations. Be able to help glean the story out of the numbers and build reports in a scalable way.
  • In the long to medium term – implement and be able to maintain our future EPM, Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud. We’ll teach you how.
  • Be able to contribute and support new system implementations.
  • Prepare ad-hoc analysis & projects as needed to support business needs.

We want someone who is:

  • Experienced in fast-growing companies and understands how to scale an FP&A organization and shown the ability to create continuous improvements within organizations and systems
  • Experienced in system implementations (e.g. BI, EPM, ERP)
  • Experienced in managing or has the desire to manage our future EPM
  • Excellent in business partnering skills, with the ability to influence others without direct authority
  • Analytically strong, meticulous in detail, intellectually curious
  • Zealous for getting things done, fun supportive team player

Desired Qualifications:

  • Proven ability to meet deadlines, follow-through on details, provide input and feedback to the team
  • Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative team work crosses functional areas
  • Experience with complex quantitative business analysis and business case development is highly desired
  • Ability to simplify large-amount of complex data and isolate the key financial/business issue and help cross-functional teams stay focused on resolving the same
  • Proven leadership skills, with demonstrated results in driving and delivering high value/high impact project results through both individual and team effort
  • Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or other highly quantitative field
  • Minimum of four years of progressive experience with Expense planning, forecasting and analysis of business results
  • Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Experience with implementing/maintaining Oracle Hyperion Cloud solution
  • Experience working with data mining and reporting tools (SQL, MS Access)
  • MBA preferred but not required