What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Manager - Data Center position at ByteDance?
Responsibilities
About the team
The data center team is a cornerstone within the company, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless development and operation of data centers. The data center team is in charge of crucial activities including commercial contract negotiation, design, and operation of the data centers globally. This involves creating and enhancing the infrastructure that supports the company's digital operations, from the core servers to the user-facing interfaces. They analyze the organization's needs, research the latest technologies, and then design systems that are efficient, reliable, and scalable.
As a Finance Manager supporting the data center, you will gain a deep understanding of the operational logic of data center businesses, use financial knowledge and budget management tools to assist in achieving management goals and drive business key decisions.
- Collaborate with the overseas business team based out of Beijing to manage and review the budget of local department’s expenses, supervise and approve the budget implementation, involving OA project approval, contract, PR, and other approvals.
- Assist the business department in project-based cost calculation, financial risk prevention, contract negotiation, and resource planning for future initiatives.
- Regularly carry out deviation analysis on the pre-actual situation, analyze and resume the project execution, and track the project progress and amount.
- Formulate reasonable financial and operating indicators, quantify costs and promote cost optimization, timely warn of abnormal situations, and help improve process and efficiency.
- Investigate the excellent practices of companies in the same industry and guide the business department to improve expense management and to achieve its business objectives.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s)
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Management or related major.
- 5 years of progressive finance, financial management, and budgeting experience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, good team spirit, willing to accept challenges, and the ability to collaborate with a diverse range of people and job functions.
- Strong ability to foster relationships and work cross-functionally, especially with global teams in different time-zones.
Preferred Qualification(s)
- Prior experience supporting data centers, cloud operation, or R&D preferred.
- CPA, CFA, CMA licenses are preferred.
About Us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $117334 - $215967 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About the team
The data center team is a cornerstone within the company, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless development and operation of data centers. The data center team is in charge of crucial activities including commercial contract negotiation, design, and operation of the data centers globally. This involves creating and enhancing the infrastructure that supports the company's digital operations, from the core servers to the user-facing interfaces. They analyze the organization's needs, research the latest technologies, and then design systems that are efficient, reliable, and scalable.
As a Finance Manager supporting the data center, you will gain a deep understanding of the operational logic of data center businesses, use financial knowledge and budget management tools to assist in achieving management goals and drive business key decisions.
- Collaborate with the overseas business team based out of Beijing to manage and review the budget of local department’s expenses, supervise and approve the budget implementation, involving OA project approval, contract, PR, and other approvals.
- Assist the business department in project-based cost calculation, financial risk prevention, contract negotiation, and resource planning for future initiatives.
- Regularly carry out deviation analysis on the pre-actual situation, analyze and resume the project execution, and track the project progress and amount.
- Formulate reasonable financial and operating indicators, quantify costs and promote cost optimization, timely warn of abnormal situations, and help improve process and efficiency.
- Investigate the excellent practices of companies in the same industry and guide the business department to improve expense management and to achieve its business objectives.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s)
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Management or related major.
- 5 years of progressive finance, financial management, and budgeting experience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, good team spirit, willing to accept challenges, and the ability to collaborate with a diverse range of people and job functions.
- Strong ability to foster relationships and work cross-functionally, especially with global teams in different time-zones.
Preferred Qualification(s)
- Prior experience supporting data centers, cloud operation, or R&D preferred.
- CPA, CFA, CMA licenses are preferred.
About Us
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.
Why Join ByteDance
Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.
As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Reasonable Accommodation
ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $117334 - $215967 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Salary : $117,334 - $215,967