FP&A COE Finance Manager
eBay · Posted Oct 28
Global online marketplace and e-commerce services
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About the role
eBay's newly established FP&A Center of Excellence is a global finance organization built to centralize, standardize, and scale core FP&A activities such as month-end close, forecasting, reporting, and financial analysis. The team partners with local FP&A teams and business units to deliver OPEX accruals and forecasts, spend visibility, and trend insights across the global ecommerce business. This role leads core FP&A execution within the COE, reviews accruals and forecasts, drives standardization and automation, and builds scalable reporting and dashboards while partnering with Controllership and global FP&A teams.
What you will do
- Own and lead core FP&A execution activities within the COE, with a strong focus on month-end close, forecasting, and reporting.
- Act as a senior point of contact for supported FP&A teams, ensuring quality, accuracy, and timeliness of deliverables.
- Own the review and validation of OPEX accruals, forecasts, and close reporting.
- Partner closely with global FP&A teams to align on assumptions, outputs, timelines, and expectations.
- Review, challenge, and synthesize variance analysis and forecasts to ensure consistency and financial rigor.
- Work with Controllership to ensure compliance with US GAAP, internal controls, and audit requirements.
- Lead or support the transition of activities into the COE, including documentation, knowledge transfer, and stabilization.
- Identify and drive opportunities for process standardization, automation, and system improvements.
- Build scalable reporting, dashboards, and insights to support decision-making.
- Contribute to the evolution of the COE operating model, governance, and best practices.
- Provide coaching, guidance, or informal leadership to analysts as needed; formal people management responsibilities may evolve over time based on business needs.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of relevant finance experience (FP&A, accounting, business analysis, or similar).
- Strong understanding of accrual-based accounting, forecasting, and budgeting concepts.
- Experience working with financial systems such as Anaplan, SAP, BW, or similar (preferred).
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across functions and geographies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Comfortable operating in a matrixed, evolving environment with ambiguity.
- Strong technical skills with spreadsheets and presentations, along with proven financial analysis capabilities.
- Ability to multi-task and manage timelines.
- Prior experience managing, mentoring, or leading teams or workstreams is a strong plus, along with the aspiration to develop as a people leader.
- Curiosity and a mentality for continuous improvement, automation, and process optimization.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About eBay
eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California, that facilitates online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales. Founded in 1995, the platform connects millions of buyers and sellers globally through auctions and fixed-price 'Buy It Now' listings across numerous categories. It operates as one of the world's largest digital marketplaces, emphasizing specialized categories like collectibles, luxury goods, and refurbished products.
- Industry
- E-commerce
- Company size
- 12000+ employees
- Founded
- 1995-09-03
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer
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