REWS Budget Operations Director

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Real Estate & Facility Management Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. The Experience The Director, REWS Budget Operations will establish and lead the finance function within REWS, supporting our global real estate and workplace services portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director, Finance Operations and Compliance, this leader will own annual planning, forecasting, financial governance, and performance insights, translating complex data into clear recommendations and investment tradeoffs. Partnering closely with REWS leadership, Corporate Finance, Spend Management, business budget owners and RE Strategy & Planning, this role will strengthen financial accountability, improve visibility into spend, and drive adoption of scalable processes and technology. The position offers the opportunity to shape a new function and influence financial decisions across a global portfolio. What You’ll Actually Be Doing • Establish the function: Define priorities, operating rhythms, roles, and processes for REWS Finance Operations, working independently and bringing structure to evolving business needs. • Lead annual planning: Own bottom-up REWS budgeting in partnership with budget owners, RE Strategy & Planning, and leadership, validating assumptions, prioritizing needs, and consolidating requirements into an integrated financial plan. • Manage spend and forecasts: Establish regular forecasting and performance reviews with budget owners to assess actual and anticipated spend, identify changes from plan, and evaluate incremental requests. Consolidate insights and forecasts for REWS leadership to inform financial decisions and priorities. • Support financial reviews: Support REWS leadership and Finance reviews, assessing performance against plan, emerging risks and opportunities, and investment tradeoffs. Translate findings into clear recommendations and accountable actions. • Advise leadership: Serve as a strategic financial partner to the REWS Leadership Team, providing scenario analysis and portfolio insights to guide cost management, resource allocation, and long-term planning. • Manage favorability and reinvestment: Identify available funding, maintain a prioritized reinvestment pipeline, and develop recommendations for leadership decisions on reallocation and investment. • Own reporting and dashboards: Lead development and continuous improvement of the REWS financial dashboard, KPIs, and monthly executive reporting, providing clear visibility into budgets, commitments, actuals, forecasts, and trends. • Strengthen financial accuracy: Partner with FP&A, Accounting, and Spend Management on accruals, variance analysis, spend closeout, and data quality, ensuring reporting reflects financial performance and timing differences accurately. • Advance governance: Develop financial policies, controls, playbooks, and monitoring practices that support consistent execution, compliance, and audit readiness. • Drive operational improvement: Simplify workflows, identify system enhancements, imp