Job Description Essential Functions: Partner with the Customer Success business leaders to prepare the annual expense budget and quarterly expense forecasts Analyze month end department expense results for the global departments and prepare appropriate journal entries to ensure expenses are recorded properly. Provide objective analytical support to influence and reinforce expense decisions. Prepare month end variance explanations and analysis for monthly reporting & KPIs. Continuously look for opportunities to improve existing processes and procedures. Perform ad-hoc financial analysis as needed and seek out and create new opportunities for further analysis across Customer Success. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Strong qualitative and quantitative skills, with demonstrated experience using data to drive decision making. Prior experience working with tight deadlines and demonstrated responsibility for accuracy and timeliness for work performed. A team player with the ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally. Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills. Must be able to convey information to all levels of the organization in a clear, focused, and concise manner. Excellent Microsoft Excel experience required; SAC & SAP experience is a plus. Process improvement focus. Minimum education and work experience required: A Bachelor’s Degree in either Finance or Accounting is required. Professional accounting qualification preferred. 4+ years of Commercial Finance/FP&A experience preferred. Experience supporting global expense planning preferred. Additional Job Description WE MAKE COMPUTERS THAT CAN SEE Cognex is the largest, most successful and most recognized global player in industrial machine vision. Using advanced optics, image sensors, and artificial intelligence software Cognex vision and ID systems capture an image, then analyze it to make sense of what’s being seen. Companies use Cognex vision and ID in their manufacturing processes to improve product quality, guide assembly robots, and track items through each stage of production and distribution. Cognex is focused entirely on solving the toughest problems in industrial machine vision and ID, and we have sold more solutions in these areas than any other company in the world. More than a billion products are made each day using Cognex vision. The only thing smarter than our vision and ID systems are the people that stand behind them. One of them could be you!