FP&A Operations Manager - Finance

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Operations Manager at Adobe plays a meaningful role in driving operational excellence across our FP&A organization. This outstanding opportunity lets you create and manage the operational rhythm for three-month and year-long planning cycles. It ensures clarity, accountability, and smooth collaboration across functions. You will work closely with Finance leadership, FP&A teams, and partners to streamline processes, improve communication, and support high-quality, data-informed decision-making in a world-class environment. This role thrives in a fast-paced, evolving setting and requires sharp intuition for business, critical thinking, and excellent program management skills. The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity, proactive in driving momentum, and skilled at fostering leadership alignment through influence rather than proximity.

Operational Cadence & Planning

• Direct and manage the quarterly and annual FP&A planning and forecasting schedules, ensuring consistency across ARR, Revenue, Expense, Headcount, Sales FP&A, International FP&A, and Systems teams.
• Coordinate operational readiness for planning cycles, including deliverables, timelines, collaborator alignment, and interlock across contributing teams.
• Coordinate FP&A engagement anchor points, ensuring structured planning, clear timelines, and aligned communications across the organization.
• Support the successful delivery of business reviews, leadership meetings, and planning checkpoints by preparing materials and ensuring clear documentation.

• Be responsible for the weekly communications pipeline, ensuring updates occur punctually and maintain a solid relationship with dashboards, metrics, and planning artifacts.
• Manage and maintain invitations, collaborator rosters, and protocols for key rhythm of business meetings.
• Implement change management communication plans using a structured framework, delivering clear updates that drive adoption across FP&A.
• Drive clarity through consistent documentation, decision tracking, and dissemination of updates to informed audiences.
• Build narratives and structured content that effectively communicate insights, decisions, and strategic progress to leadership.

• Maintain, improve, and operationalize planning hubs, SharePoint sites, process maps, and playbooks to enable scalable, repeatable FP&A operations.
• Offer centralized coordination support to guarantee smooth exchanges between Sales FP&A, International FP&A, and corporate teams.
• Support cross-functional programs and central initiatives by coordinating timelines, dependencies, risks, and delivery quality.

• Identify operational gaps, process inefficiencies, and opportunities for workflow automation or simplification.
• Transform ambiguous challenges into structured, actionable solutions with measurable outcomes.
• Respond quickly to emerging priorities and leadership requests, applying excellent judgment and cross-functional coordination.

Experience & Technical Skills

• 8-10 years of experience in FP&A operations, business operations, program management, or similar roles.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, Teams, and SharePoint; familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite preferred.
• Demonstrated success driving executive-level operating rhythms and managing complex, cross-functional initiatives.

• Strong critical thinking with the ability to connect big-picture goals to operational execution.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to simplify complex topics for diverse audiences.
• Great teammate with high emotional intelligence and partner management capability, able to influence across matrixed organizations.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, with a bias for action and ability to maintain calm, clarity, and order.
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure, manage shifting priorities, and deliver against tight deadlines.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

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Expected Pay Range:

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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