SP&A Manager

What is Box?

Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift.

 

Why Box Needs You

We are a dynamic team of former technology finance professionals, investment bankers, consultants, and engineers that enjoy solving the business challenges that come with rapid scaling.  Our goal is to grow Box as fast as possible.  Our role is to inform and drive some of Box’s most important business decisions by providing context and connection between functions, across time (quarter, year, multi-year), and among varying levels of data (high-level external metrics to detailed operational indicators), linking that context directly to our corporate and business strategy and objectively assessing the impact of the decision on our business.

 

What You’ll Do

• Partner closely with the EMEA Engineering Site Leader as a trusted thought partner, providing data-driven insights to support strategic decisions
• Own month-end close activities for EMEA Engineering, ensuring accurate accruals, forecasting, and variance analysis across headcount and operating expenses
• Serve as the primary owner of EMEA Engineering headcount planning, tracking hiring, backfills, attrition, and role changes against plan
• Develop deep expertise in Box’s capital development framework, partnering with Engineering to assess, document, and validate capitalizable work
• Perform detailed capital development analysis, including capitalization eligibility, forecasting, and post-close reviews
• Support long-range planning, annual operating plan, and quarterly forecast cycles for EMEA Engineering
• Identify risks and opportunities related to headcount, spend, proactively recommending mitigation actions
• Continuously improve reporting, processes, and tools related to Engineering finance and headcount tracking
• Act as a key liaison between Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and SP&A to ensure alignment and smooth execution

 

Who You Are

We are an AI-first company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster, smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at Box.

• You have 4+ years of applicable experience with time spent in finance, investment banking, consulting, accounting, or business operations
• Advanced proficiency in Excel with prior financial modeling experience 
• Prior experience with Planful, SQL, Salesforce and Tableau or desire to learn
• Fast-paced, dynamic team environments are exciting to you
• You are thoughtful and a poised communicator and are not hesitant to voice your point of view
• You take pride in your analytical and financial modeling skills and enjoy applying them to tackle highly complex business problems – and you can tell the story behind the data through relevant insights and conclusions
• You can navigate networks of systems and people to find the information you need
• You’re a structured thinker and have strong command of “the details” but don’t get lost in them
• You are comfortable contributing to projects end-to-end, from initiation and planning through to closure
• You can effectively prioritize multiple work streams and constituents

 

BENEFITS
Check out the overview of Life at Box which include general perks and benefits.

 

Box lives its values, with community and in-person collaboration being a core part of our culture. Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 3 days per week. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

At Box, we believe unique and diverse experiences benefit our culture, our products, our customers, our company, and our world. We aim to recruit a passionate, high-performing workforce that reflects the world we live in. If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!

 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation.

For details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice.

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