Finance Associate, x-RL Finance

Meta is seeking a Finance Associate for the cross-Reality Labs Finance "cross team" within the Finance & Business Planning (FBP) organization. In this highly impactful role, you will be a key team member of our RL-wide horizontal cross team responsible for core deliverables and projects that can be most efficiently completed centrally within the RL Pillar. We expect the x-RL cross team to continuously strive to make RL Finance more efficient, while delivering high quality, critical planning work by leveraging deep expertise in RL Finance processes, x-RL Finance relationships, and visibility to work spanning our vertical teams within RL Finance. Move to MINIMUM_QUALIFICATION or PREFERRED_QUALIFICATIONS.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic guidance and lead cross team ownership for a key Reality Labs vertical within RL Finance, empowering the team to achieve their goals
• Spearhead the development and implementation of standardized processes across the RL Cross team, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficiency
• Lead close and forecast cycles across a key Reality Labs vertical within RL Finance, including defining timelines, templates and process, and the preparation of flux commentary and forecasts
• Help execute the annual budget process, including partnering with vertical FP&A teams to provide support on workstreams to allocate resources, inform key business decisions, and execute on operational plans
• Drive key systems efforts across Reality Labs Finance
• Develop and maintain proactive, collaborative partnerships between the RL vertical FP&A teams, RL Consolidations, Corporate FP&A and other cross-functional teams including Accounting, Technical Accounting and Enterprise Engineering
• Support risk management, internal controls, and financial compliance
• Provide thought partnership and foster collaboration across the RL Finance organization

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or relevant field and 5+ years of experience in FP&A, consulting, investment banking, business strategy, business operations and/or analytics
• Strong communication skills to tailor messaging for audiences of varying level of seniority and technical experience
• Understanding of financial statement analysis and core financial planning processes
• Proven track record of building cross-functional relationships and partnering with senior leadership across organizations
• Proven Excel and analytical skills to translate large amounts of data into both insights and recommendations
• Experience with multi-tasking and shifting priorities quickly under pressure and competing deadlines Experience working with financial planning systems, preferably Oracle products (e.g., Hyperion Essbase)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience with improving financial planning systems and tools (e.g., Oracle Hyperion Planning/Essbase/Fusion/Cloud) to drive process efficiencies
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with financial planning systems, preferably Oracle products (e.g., Hyperion Essbase)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience with improving financial planning systems and tools (e.g., Oracle Hyperion Planning/Essbase/Fusion/Cloud) to drive process efficiencies
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)