Financial Analyst

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The position serves as a key finance partner to Latin America leadership and the broader Americas Finance organization, translating financial results into clear business insights and ensuring strong execution of financial processes across the region.

Key Responsibilities

Month-End Close & Financial Reporting

• Own and coordinate the monthly financial close process for Latin America, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely reporting.
• Review monthly P&L and balance sheet results, identifying significant variances, risks, opportunities, and unusual items.
• Ensure appropriate accruals, reserves, reclassifications, and other closing entries are reflected in reported results.
• Coordinate with local finance teams, accounting, shared services, and other functions to resolve closing and reporting issues.
• Maintain strong financial controls and ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies and applicable reporting requirements.
• Provide clear monthly reporting and commentary explaining actual performance versus forecast, budget, and prior year.

Forecasting & Financial Outlook

• Lead the regional forecasting process, including P&L, balance sheet, and other key financial metrics.
• Consolidate forecasts across countries and businesses to develop a comprehensive Latin America financial outlook.
• Partner with commercial, operations, and functional finance teams to understand key business assumptions and incorporate them into the forecast.
• Identify emerging risks and opportunities and ensure they are reflected appropriately in the financial outlook.
• Improve forecast accuracy through disciplined assumptions, variance analysis, and follow-up on forecast misses.

Annual Budget & Strategic Planning

• Coordinate the annual budget process across Latin America, establishing timelines, assumptions, templates, and review processes.
• Consolidate country and functional budgets into the overall regional financial plan.
• Challenge business assumptions and ensure alignment between commercial expectations, operating plans, cost structures, and financial targets.
• Support longer-term planning and scenario analysis as required by regional and corporate leadership.

Management & Stakeholder Reporting

• Prepare and deliver monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages for Latin America and Americas leadership.
• Develop concise executive-level commentary explaining financial performance, major drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide analysis of actual versus forecast, budget, and prior-year performance.
• Support business reviews and leadership meetings with financial analysis and decision-support materials.
• Ensure consistent financial definitions, reporting methodologies, and KPIs across the region.

Business Partnership & Performance Management

• Partner with regional and country leadership to improve understanding of financial performance and business drivers.
• Proactively identify areas of financial risk, cost pressure, performance gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Translate financial information into actionable insights that support management decisions.
• Support initiatives focused on profitability, cost management, working capital, and cash generation.
• Serve as a key connection point between local Latin America finance teams and Americas/regional Finance leadership.

Process Improvement & Financial Governance

• Drive standardization and continuous improvement of close, forecast, budget, and management reporting processes.
• Improve the quality, efficiency, and automation of financial reporting and analysis.
• Establish clear ownership, calendars, and review processes for recurring financial deliverables.
• Promote strong financial discipline, controls, accountability, and consistency across the region.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
• Strong experience in financial controlling, FP&A, accounting, or a combination of these disciplines.
• Experience managing month-end close, forecasting, budgeting, and management reporting processes.
• Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and key business performance drivers.
• Experience operating in a multi-country or regional finance environment strongly preferred.
• Advanced financial modeling, analytical, and reporting capabilities.
• Strong Excel and financial systems knowledge; experience with ERP, consolidation, planning, and business-intelligence tools preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate financial results effectively to senior leadership.
• English required; Spanish and/or Portuguese highly desirable for a Latin America regional role.

Key Competencies

• Financial ownership and accountability
• Strong controllership mindset
• Forecasting and planning discipline
• Analytical and problem-solving capability
• Executive-level financial communication
• Cross-functional business partnership
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively
• Ability to manage multiple countries, stakeholders, and deadlines
• Continuous improvement mindset