Senior Data Specialist - Remote

Overview

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role: 

Motive is seeking an experienced Senior AR Data Specialist to join its world-class Billing/Collections team and help us scale for the future, in a fast-paced environment that’s growing rapidly.  As a Senior AR Data Specialist, you will support the processing and reporting of our global financial billing/collections results.

What You’ll Do: 

• Enable timely financial close and collections analysis through data analytics and visualization
• Build reporting and dashboards using Excel SQL, Tableau, Redash, Salesforce, Zuora and Genesys
• Create reports, models, and ad hoc analysis to help management evaluate the impact of decisions on short and long term plans
• Build out and assist with delivering monthly & quarterly management reporting, including executive level forecast vs. actuals and dashboards
• Assist with the preparation of external materials, including quarterly financials, key metric datasets, and other ad hoc requests
• Conduct monthly forecast vs actual variance analyses to share results and actionable insights with business partners
• Wrangle large, highly complex datasets into actionable insights and become the data expert for Billing/Collections
• Support the broader Billing/Collections team with monthly, quarterly, and annual planning
• Perform analysis, identify trends, conduct research, and build visualizations to deliver objective, critical insights that fulfill billing and collections stakeholders’ needs 
• Implement anomaly detection of automated billing and payments activity to identify potential misstatements in financial results 
• Drive cross-functional projects, primarily partnering with Revenue and Accounting to identify opportunities to help our stakeholders operate more efficiently and effectively
• Work independently to investigate the root cause of system breakages and drive both short/long term resolution
• Work cross-functionally to drive process improvement and automation
• Create, maintain and review complex financial models in excel/gsheets
• Develop testing strategies and build population to satisfy analytic-based audit needs
• Conduct A/B testing and perform insights analysis
• Develop competitive benchmarking analysis and other key financial and operating metrics

What We’re Looking For: 

• 2-4+ years of relevant finance and/or industry experience
• Must be detail-oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
• Independent self-starter and adaptable in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and proven experience in cultivating collaborative working relationships with teams across an organization
• Strong knowledge of Excel and experience working with large amounts of data, often coming from multiple sources
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• Self-motivated individual with a demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results, with excellent attention to detail
• Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices, and challenging existing processes to identify improvement opportunities
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey financial concepts to both financial and non-financial audiences
• Intermediate or advanced SQL proficiency
• Excellent modeling and forecasting skills 
• Expert in Excel and Google Sheets
• Comprehensive knowledge of Zuora is a plus
• Expertise in Salesforce is a plus
• Bachelor's (BA/BS) degree in Accounting or Finance (CPA is a plus)