CrawlJobs Logo

Manager, Strategy & Operations (Finance)

activision.com Logo

Activision

Location Icon

Location:
United States of America , Santa Monica

Category Icon
Category:

Job Type Icon

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary Icon

Salary:

97200.00 - 179900.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

As Manager, Strategy & Operations (Finance), you will own and lead the financial governance and operational planning function across AP Global Marketing. This role is accountable for driving organizational performance, financial stewardship, and operational rigor across key marketing investment initiatives. You will serve as the functional owner of annual planning processes, vendor and agency governance frameworks, cross-functional investment alignment, and capability forecasting. This role exists to ensure continuity, discipline, and strategic execution across high-impact marketing initiatives.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own the end-to-end accounts payable governance model for AP Global Marketing teams, ensuring timely invoice processing, financial accuracy, and operational continuity
  • Establish and oversee purchase order governance and approval workflows, ensuring alignment between spend, planning assumptions, and budget allocation
  • Serve as functional owner of vendor and agency governance frameworks, including spend oversight, performance tracking, and continuous process optimization
  • Lead cross-functional alignment of budget allocation against strategic marketing priorities and growth initiatives
  • Own capability planning and resource forecasting models to ensure the organization is structured and funded to scale effectively
  • Establish and maintain reporting dashboards, business reviews, and governance cadences that improve transparency, decision-making, and financial accountability
  • Identify and implement operational improvements, including automation and AI-enabled workflows, to improve efficiency and reduce cost leakage
  • Maintain continuity across global coordination efforts to ensure consistent planning standards and disciplined investment execution

Requirements:

  • 6–8+ years of experience in finance, strategy, consulting, or operations, including demonstrated ownership of cross-functional planning cycles, governance programs, or investment management initiatives
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related field
  • Experience leading financial planning cycles, governance programs, or cross-functional operational initiatives
  • Strong analytical and modeling skills with the ability to translate data into structured decision frameworks
  • Proven ability to manage complex, matrixed stakeholder environments and drive alignment without formal authority
  • Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to senior leadership

Nice to have:

  • Experience in media, entertainment, technology, or gaming
  • Background designing vendor or agency governance models
  • Experience driving cost optimization or operating income improvement initiatives
  • MBA or advanced degree in a relevant field
  • Experience implementing automation or AI-enabled workflow solutions
What we offer:
  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
  • Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
  • Relocation assistance

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 04, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
Job Link Share:

Looking for more opportunities? Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Briefcase Icon

Similar Jobs for Manager, Strategy & Operations (Finance)

OpsRamp Business Strategy & Operations Manager II

Defines, manages, and evaluates business plans and processes to ensure they are ...
Location
Location
United States , San Jose
Salary
Salary:
130500.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year
https://www.hpe.com/ Logo
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 10+ years total experience in strategy, planning, operations, finance, or related functional area
  • Advanced university degree required (e.g., MBA) or demonstrable equivalent experience
  • Extensive knowledge of research methodology for the most challenging business issues
  • Excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data manipulation skills
  • Ability to leverage new analytical techniques to develop creative approaches and insights
  • Extensive understanding of customer lifecycle & GTM
  • Superior business acumen and technical knowledge within area of responsibility
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation and influence skills
  • Excellent project management skills, including leading large, cross-functional initiatives that impact the organization
  • Strong relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Develops recommendation from complex data and business analyses and formulates them into business processes
  • Operationalize and create new processes to embed OpsRamp into HPE products
  • Establishes the metrics required to measure performance and outcome
  • Manages activities & programs cross functionally and achieve results
  • Influence and work with cross-functional teams across the entire span of business planning activities
  • Drives all aspects of priority projects and makes final team decisions
  • Develops and drives comprehensive plans, with timelines and results
  • Ability to hold oneself and others accountable for actions and results
What we offer
What we offer
  • Health & Wellbeing benefits
  • Personal & Professional Development programs
  • Unconditional Inclusion policy
  • Comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial and emotional wellbeing
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Head of Project Operations & Finance Manager

Maccreanor Lavington is a multi award-winning, design led architectural practice...
Location
Location
Netherlands , Rotterdam
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
maccreanorlavington.com Logo
Maccreanor Lavington
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Fluent in and have an excellent grasp of both Dutch and English language
  • Experience in a financial management role
  • Sound accounting knowledge
  • Skilled in using the Microsoft suite
  • Advanced user skills in Excel
  • Knowledge of systems such as Accounts IQ and Rapport would be advantageous
  • Demonstrate a high degree of self-awareness, emotional intelligence
  • Have a collaborative working style and an inquisitive and friendly nature
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent eye for detail
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Work across the practice to guide and support the project leads to manage project appointments
  • Ensure scopes of service and deliverables are clearly defined
  • Monitor project profitability by leading regular project financial reviews
  • Ensure a consistent approach to our processes and systems
  • Contribute to the overall risk management strategy of the company
  • Managing finance for the Dutch office including budgeting and forecasting, invoicing and billing, credit control and debt recovery, bookkeeping, tax and VAT, payroll management, and financial reporting
  • Work with the Company Finance Lead based in London to ensure that financial information is aligned and reported to the Company accounts
What we offer
What we offer
  • We work under the Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) for Architecture firms and the salary and benefit structure offered is in accordance with the CLA
  • We host events, activities, offer training, learning, and development opportunities
  • We participate in and support education and community programmes
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Manager, Technology Operations, Product Strategy - WFS

We are looking for a strong leader to help build and scale our Walmart Fulfillme...
Location
Location
United States of America , Bentonville
Salary
Salary:
90000.00 - 180000.00 USD / Year
walmart.com Logo
Walmart
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, industrial engineering, engineering management, business,information systems, project/program management, information technology, finance, management, or related area and 5 years’ experience inproject management, program management, program operations, or related area.
  • Option 2: 7 years’ experience in project management, program management, program operations, or related area.
  • 2 years’ supervisory experience.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Leads the development and execution of advanced analytics to address unique business and technical problems and support data-driven decision making.
  • Makes strategic recommendations to cross-functional leadership based on analysis results, and influences roadmap prioritization of partner teams.
  • Owns complex projects end-to-end for a business area
  • manages risks associated with implementation.
  • Develops data models (algorithms, approaches) for complex projects within a business area to drive business results and value.
  • Presents findings and recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Coaches team members and provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge, and work performance.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams to drive a highly complex business area or one with high strategic importance to Walmart.
  • Navigates partner team dynamics and works across multiple sites.
  • Has accountability for the performance and results of the team in a highly complex business area or category.
What we offer
What we offer
  • Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
  • Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
  • Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
  • Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
  • Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.
  • Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
  • Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: Stock.
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Revenue Operations Program Manager

The Revenue Operations Program Manager will be responsible for driving outsized ...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
162000.00 - 190000.00 USD / Year
https://checkr.com Logo
Checkr
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 6+ years of experience in program management, go-to-market/revenue operations, strategy, finance or management consulting
  • Track record of building out processes and tooling for net new functions in a revenue organization and understanding/measuring impact
  • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple initiatives at the same time in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong communication and relationship building skills, as well as experience working with senior leadership
  • A tough yet positive attitude
  • you have a keen eye for what is working well and what needs improvement. You’re a truth teller and problem solver and are deeply curious
  • A strong attention to detail and top-tier organizational and project management skills
  • Superior analytical skills. Comfort analyzing and visualizing data in spreadsheets and Salesforce (experience with SQL and BI tools like Looker, Tableau, etc. is a plus)
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Partner closely with our revenue teams to build and execute against the top strategic, most complex and highly visible projects, assuring key initiatives are executed at the highest quality and delivered on time
  • Build strong relationships and work autonomously with revenue, finance, operations, product, and the executive team to develop and execute on core strategic initiatives
  • Develop a deep understanding of Checkr’s internal teams, processes, and business goals in order to identify insights that are relevant to informing the long-term strategy of Checkr
  • Proactively lead continuous improvements - identify gaps across teams, develop strategy, build plans and execute against them
  • Build scalable, repeatable, and efficient processes that result in outsized revenue growth
What we offer
What we offer
  • A fast-paced and collaborative environment
  • Learning and development allowance
  • Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
  • 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Unlimited PTO policy
  • Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior GTM Strategy and Business Operations Manager

Atlassian is seeking a Senior Manager in the Marketing Strategy and Business Ope...
Location
Location
Salary
Salary:
114300.00 - 178600.00 USD / Year
https://www.atlassian.com Logo
Atlassian
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 6+ years experience in business operations, strategy, product, go-to-market / sales strategy, monetization, strategic finance, or similar
  • Expertise in go-to-market domains including marketing
  • Top-notch problem-solving and analytical capabilities, including comfort with ambiguity and ability to bring a structured approach to decision-making
  • Understanding of SaaS business models and enterprise marketing & sales
  • Excellent verbal & written communications skills with all levels of an organization
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Partner directly with cross-functional leaders across marketing, sales, product, analytics and finance teams to drive cohesive strategies that ensure a seamless end-to-end customer experience across products, solutions and markets
  • Work at the intersection of customer-facing and product teams to create the “art of the possible” narrative for Atlassian’s customers seeking to unleash the power of their teams
  • Create improvements in business operations, as the GTM team continues to refine Atlassian’s innovative business model by leveraging Atlassian’s industry-leading flywheel model to hyper-scale enterprise growth
What we offer
What we offer
  • health and wellbeing resources
  • paid volunteer days
Read More
Arrow Right

Finance & Strategy, Senior Associate / Manager

Ethos is looking for an ambitious self-starter to join our Finance & Strategy Te...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
85000.00 - 164000.00 USD / Year
ethoslife.com Logo
Ethos
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 4+ years of relevant work experience
  • 2+ years of consulting, investment banking, and/or private equity / growth equity
  • 2+ years of operational experience at a high-growth technology company
  • Best-in-class excel skills and extensive experience developing insightful financial models and quantitative analyses
  • Strong critical thinking and sound business judgment
  • Ability to flex between high-level strategic thinking and deep analytical problem solving
  • Motivated self-starter with a track record of success and a proven ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks while hitting deadlines
  • Desire to own and drive projects from Day 1
  • Excellent communication skills and effective cross-functional collaborator
  • Exceptional attention to detail
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Drive our efforts to better serve new customer segments, launch new insurance products, and establish new partnerships
  • Apply business judgement and financial insights to drive decision making related to unit economics, customer acquisition, operations, core business expansion, and new opportunities
  • Apply a data-driven analytical approach to influence decision making and support company leadership in evaluating strategic initiatives
  • Develop and monitor critical financial performance metrics, and communicate actionable insights to relevant stakeholders
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Strategy and Business Operations Senior Manager

Atlassian is seeking a Strategy and Business Operations Senior Manager to partne...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
https://www.atlassian.com Logo
Atlassian
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 8+ years of experience in corporate strategy, product/platform strategy, strategic finance, or similar, and have a foundational understanding of platform and SaaS business models
  • demonstrated experience in contributing to business case development/strategic recommendations from end-to-end
  • proficiency in financial modelling and building revenue and cost drivers
  • experience supporting qualitative and quantitative customer or market research
  • excellent verbal & written communications skills
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Drive and influence the long-term vision for Atlassian's user-facing platform capabilities
  • partner directly with product and go-to-market teams to support the delivery of strategic recommendations and analyses
  • build financial and analytical models to identify measurable insights, exercise sound business judgement, and develop recommendations to influence and drive consensus across functional leaders
  • define appropriate goals/OKRs to track progress against strategic objectives
  • keep a tight pulse on business performance and reporting, including quarterbacking a cross-functional team to diagnose problems when they occur
What we offer
What we offer
  • health coverage
  • paid volunteer days
  • wellness resources
  • bonuses
  • commissions
  • equity
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Services Operations Program Manager

We are seeking a Services Operations Program Manager to lead the strategic and o...
Location
Location
United States , Austin; Secaucus
Salary
Salary:
117120.00 - 175680.00 USD / Year
amd.com Logo
AMD
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Extensive experience in contingent workforce management, supplier operations, or MSP/Vendor Management Office (VMO) environments
  • Proven success in managing large supplier networks across multiple geographies
  • Strong financial acumen and experience with spend forecasting, budgeting, and variance tracking
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Strong analytical, reporting, and data validation abilities
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or a related field preferred
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Align contingent workforce strategies with evolving business needs, skills, and locations
  • Manage transitions to new Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and coordinate supplier changes, including new engagements and exits
  • Partner with Procurement and business leaders to assess supplier performance, continuity, and financial impact
  • Support Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Project Budget Alignment (PBA), and Long-Range Planning (LRP) processes
  • Partner with procurement for bill rate changes, supplier escalations, and performance improvement initiatives
  • Support sourcing activities by coordinating contingent worker needs across suppliers and countries
  • Work with procurement to maintain accurate and current Statements of Work (SOWs), blanket POs, and bill rate data
  • Validate invoices, timesheets, and expenses to ensure compliance with SOW terms and financial accuracy
  • Partner with IT to support equipment provisioning for contingent workers
  • Maintain a master database tracking headcount, spend, bill rates, and tenure by supplier and country
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right