Finance Manager

The group you’ll be a part of

The Global Finance Group drives financial strategies based on expert understanding of Lam's breakthrough technologies, the semiconductor market, and the global business environment. They manage our company's financials and relationships with our investor community to ensure we have the strong financial foundation to fuel innovation and growth.   

The impact you’ll make

As Finance Manager, you will influence investment strategy for the CTO organization, support innovation outcomes, and serve as a trusted finance advisor to business and technical leaders. You will bring financial discipline, advanced analytics, and executive-ready insights to help guide portfolio decisions, resource allocation, and long-term value creation.

What you’ll do

As a Finance Manager, you will serve as a strategic finance partner to CTO leadership by leading portfolio strategy, program economics, and long-term technology roadmap analysis, while advising the CTO Controller and senior stakeholders with clear financial insights, investment recommendations, and data-driven perspectives. This role combines forward-looking business partnership, advanced analytics, and value analysis with product line financial support, enabling informed investment decisions across early-stage research, platform development, and advanced programs while maintaining financial integrity, compliance, and operational rigor.

Primary Activities
Strategic Business Partnering, Advanced Analytics & Value Analysis

• Lead financial analysis and operational decision support for program leaders and CTO stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain advanced financial models, business cases, ROI analyses, scenario comparisons, and sensitivity analyses to inform portfolio and investment decisions.
• Leverage advanced analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools to identify trends, quantify risks, improve forecast accuracy, and surface actionable insights.
• Track investment performance across the program lifecycle, from concept through development, launch, and post-launch, and highlight key variances, risks, and value-creation opportunities.
• Translate complex financial and analytical outputs into clear, executive-ready recommendations for program managers, finance leadership, and senior stakeholders.
• Lead planning, roadmap updates, and capital reviews through high-quality data preparation, analysis, reporting, and decision support.

Program Financial Management

• Lead financial planning and analysis for programs, including program budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis; headcount and resource modeling; and milestone-based funding and performance tracking.
• Partner with program managers and senior leaders to identify cost, schedule, portfolio, and value risks, and develop mitigation strategies.
• Establish and improve financial governance, metrics, dashboards, and analytics capabilities to support scalable decision-making.

What you'll do (continued)

Financial Integrity

• Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting.
• Support monthly close, accruals, reserves, and financial statements for the organization.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, accounting standards (US GAAP/IFRS as applicable), and internal controls (SOX).

Leadership & Process Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, systems, analytical capabilities, and management reporting.
• Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and value creation across the organization.

Who we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or business-related field with 12+ years of experience; or Master’s degree or equivalent certification (MBA, CPA, CFA, CA, CMA, or equivalent) with 8+ years’ experience; or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of progressive finance experience, including: strategic business partnering with technical, business, and senior leaders; FP&A, value/ROI analysis, portfolio analytics, and executive-level decision support; and accounting responsibility.
  
• Experience supporting R&D, engineering, or innovation-driven organizations.
  
• Solid knowledge of financial reporting, internal controls, and accounting standards.
  
• Proven ability to influence and lead cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
  
• Demonstrated capability with advanced analytics, financial modeling, dashboarding, automation, and AI-enabled analysis tools.

Preferred qualifications

• CPA and/or MBA.
• Experience in semiconductor capital equipment or a similar high technology industry.
• Background in R&D portfolio management or innovation investment governance.
• Experience leveraging advanced analytics or AI tools to support investment decisions.
• Prior experience in investment banking, corporate development, corporate strategy, transaction advisory, or a similar deal-oriented finance role.

Our commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.

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