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Role and Responsibilities
This role is primarily focused on managerial role, with overall line management responsibility for a small team that provides intermediate and advanced support through all phases of the financial planning and analysis processes including business partnering and working on cross functional projects. The Manager is in charge of business forecasting and corresponding budgets as well as performance-based analyses. The FP&A Manager aims to predict future financial outcomes by considering economic and business trends, reviewing past company performance, in the forecasting and budgeting process.
Key Responsibilities:
Support the execution of financial planning and analysis processes, projects, and ad-hoc requests as required by the Finance organization, MIS Commercial Group and/or MIS Ratings and Research Group by embracing the following responsibilities:
Manage a team of 5 some of which are managers based in Costa RicaLead, supervise and review the preparation of the monthly reports and variance analysis, in a timely manner. Including the use of financial KPI analysis and identifying historical trends that will offer value added insights and help identify key focus areas for management.Lead, supervise and review the business planning processes and deliverables: forecast, budget, etc. Deliver driver based presentational outputs for discussion with senior management.Actively partner with the local, regional and global stakeholders and communicate effectively with the business to foster good working relationships with the rest of the organization.Lead and review the development of new reporting solutions.Play a key role to proactively lead and evaluate the recommendation and implementations of best practices for enhancements to current processes and reporting, including identifying areas for productivity and driving the standardization of activities across business planning to harness efficiencies.Provide formal guidance or on the job training to all team members.Lead, supervise and review special projects as assigned primary stakeholdersProvide recommendations to solve business requests
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Excellent interpersonal and people management skillsProactive, strategic thinkerSuperior problem-solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with executive management. Strong analytical and project management skillsMust be detail oriented, ensuring accuracy and quality of reporting and other deliverables.Ability to provide constructive and robust challenge to business management.Ability to work effectively with other functional areas to understand the operational and cultural issues relevant to achieving superior results.Hyper client focused with tenacity to resolve issues and conflicts.High energy individual with enthusiasm for business partnering with multiple stakeholders.Ability to work with key stakeholders across time zones.
Qualifications and Experience
7+ years in business strategy or finance roleBachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics or engineering
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