Finance Intern
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Job Description
About Our Group
Go-To-Market Edge Finance team is a finance and business-oriented support for Seagate’s Edge Datacenter and IoT businesses. Team is a key business partner, responsible for driving financial insights, investment planning, and performance optimization across a rapidly evolving Edge portfolio. Team is pivotal in shaping financial strategy, enabling growth and ensuring sound decision-making by partnering cross functionally with Edge product, sales, engineering executive teams as well as broader finance/accounting organization.
About The Role – You Will
• Reporting and Process Mapping
• Document current-state financial reporting processes (Revenue, Gross Margin, Op Income) for weekly flash signals and quarter end close across Edge business segments.
• Identify gaps, overlaps, and inconsistencies in financial reporting and metric definitions across business segments.
• Interview key stakeholders to understand financial reporting requirements and critical metrics tracked by Edge executives.
• Consolidation and Standardization
• Develop a framework to consolidate and standardize key financial metrics.
• Propose and document unified definitions for KPIs across Edge segments (e.g. revenue, margins, YoY/QoQ growth rates, EB, cost drivers, etc).
• Work with Edge Finance to integrate relevant metrics into Edge financial reporting
• Data and Automation Readiness
• Identify and map foundational data sources required for accurate and timely reporting
• Develop initial building blocks for automated reporting pipelines (in Excel, Power BI, Tableau or other similar reporting tools)
• Recommend or create templates, mockups, or prototypes for automated dashboards and reports.
• Stakeholder Alignment
• Collaborate with Edge Finance and FP&A to gather feedback and align on standard metrics and reporting cadence.
• Present findings and recommendations regularly to Edge Sr. Finance director and Edge business executives.
• Documentation and Handoff
• Prepare comprehensive documentation of proposed processes, templates and frameworks.
• Create a knowledge base or playbook for ongoing reporting processes and dashboard development.
• Summarize opportunities and recommendations for long term automation and improvements.
