Senior Analyst, FP&A

About the role

Serve as a strategic finance partner to senior and executive-level leaders, translating complex financial data into clear insights, tradeoffs, and recommendations that drive business decisions. Build and own robust financial models supporting opex and headcount forecasting, scenario analysis, investment decisions, and long-range planning; ensure models are scalable, structured, and decision-ready. Lead components of the annual operating plan, quarterly forecast cycles, and ongoing performance management processes with full accountability for delivery. Apply AI-enabled tools, automation, and advanced analytics to improve forecasting, variance analysis, scenario modeling, reporting, and executive decision support. Drive automation of manual processes (e.g., reporting, data aggregation, variance commentary) to enable more efficient and scalable financial operations. Develop executive-ready materials, dashboards, and summaries that clearly communicate financial performance, drivers, and forward-looking implications. Use Workday Adaptive Planning to support forecast cycles, scenario modeling, reporting, data validation, and planning process improvements. Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and trends, bringing forward actionable recommendations and alternative solutions. Take full ownership of projects from problem definition through execution and delivery, operating with minimal oversight in a fast-paced environment. About you: 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment analysis, or a similarly rigorous analytical role. Demonstrated ability to build and own complex financial models used for executive decision-making. Proven track record of effective business partnership, including experience supporting senior or executive-level stakeholders. Strong experience supporting planning, forecasting, and performance management processes. Advanced Excel and financial analysis skills, including working with large and complex datasets. Hands-on experience applying AI-enabled tools, automation, or advanced analytics within finance workflows, including forecasting, financial modeling, variance analysis, or reporting. Prior experience with Workday Adaptive Planning or a comparable enterprise planning platform, with Workday Adaptive Planning strongly preferred. Ability to operate independently, drive workstreams end-to-end, and deliver high-quality outputs with limited direction.

Requirements

• Advanced hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning, including planning cycles, reporting, scenario modeling, and data validation.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and implementing automation, AI-enabled, or analytics-driven improvements within finance processes.
• Experience in a technology, SaaS, or high-growth environment.
• MBA or similar advanced credential (not required).
• What Success Looks Like:
• Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, delivering insights that directly influence business decisions.
• Anticipates questions and issues before they arise, bringing forward solutions, not just data.
• Uses AI tools and Workday Adaptive Planning to reduce manual effort, improve analytical quality, and create more repeatable, scalable FP&A processes.
• Operates with a high degree of ownership, delivering complex work independently with minimal oversight.
• Raises the bar on financial modeling, forecasting accuracy, and analytical rigor.
• Contributes to the evolution of FP&A into a more data-driven, forward-looking, and technology-enabled function.
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• McAfee is a leader in personal security

Additional Information

Job Title: Senior Analyst, FP&A Role Overview: McAfee is seeking a highly experienced FP&A Senior Analyst to support financial planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis across operating expenses and headcount. This role is designed for a seasoned finance professional who combines strong financial modeling and business partnership skills with hands-on experience using modern FP&A tools, including Workday Adaptive Planning, AI-enabled tools, automation, and advanced analytics to enhance analysis, modeling, forecasting, and reporting. The ideal candidate operates independently, partners effectively with senior leaders, and brings a forward-looking mindset to modernizing FP&A by improving forecasting, reporting, and insight generation through technology and innovation, including practical application of AI tools and enterprise planning platforms to create more scalable, repeatable finance processes. This is a Hybrid position located in our Frisco, TX office. We value in-office collaboration and meaningful interactions, so expect that you will be able to be in the office on a regular basis according to team needs. When you are not working on-site, you will be working from your home office. We are only considering candidates within a commutable distance to the Frisco, TX office and are not offering relocation assistance at this time

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