Position Overview
This role will be an important of Corporate FP&A group as well as the functional and G&A focused groups. It will own the reporting for complete P&Ls and support of the creation of materials for the Executive Team, being capable to understand, dissect and present the financial results of the business in different ways mainly for Executive and top external customers and for different exercises such as Annual financial plan and its preparation, LRP, Estimates, Quarterly Earnings and Corporate Strategy.
This person will be the main contact for the finance VP of GSC, thus this individual will have to actively get involved on the business needs as its customers and make sure to develop the skills and analysis on its analysts to provide them with the insights required. In the case of Management and Corporate this will be based on total P&L understanding and in the case of GSC it should focus on strong G&A+ Shared Services Budget Controls for a bucket of +$2Bn. In addition, this individual will lead the build of the ideal organization structure to develop this corporate reporting focused skills and also to identify talent and be part of the FP&A recruit team, ensuring the right talent is hired and trained for the success of this organization.
During the project implementation this resource will own the Transfer Planning and its consequent sign off for the OneSource GSC FP&A team, contributing directly to the NA, TR and LATAM teams’ plans during the rationalization sessions. This individual’s contribution in the Transfer Planning will be the foundation for the following knowledge transfer that will be executed by the Start Up teams.
Roles and Responsibilities
Foundation Team
Work closely with relevant Finance leaders to define the scope, deliverables, key financial and operational metrics (SLAs and KPIs) and transition plans for all Shared Services Center Panama Financial Services
Develop service delivery models, including end-to-end process detail, for all initial FPA commercial processes. Standardize/simplify/improve processes as needed
Develop organizations structures, roles and responsibilities and resourcing plans needed to operationalize service delivery models
Develop migration plans and migrate FP&A commercial services and operations to Regional Shared Service with no service interruption
Collaborate with regional, brand and corporate finance teams to ensure quality deliverables and proper information flow and hand-offs
Day-to-Day Service Delivery
Forecast Management & Consolidation – 60%
Lead the teams in charge of establishing budgeting tools, ensuring all budgets are accurate, comprehensive, and completed on time including pre-populated budget estimate data templates, consolidation and data quality management of annual and monthly budget estimate submissions and perform allocations for function budget analysis. Also responsible to supervise the analysis, commentary and presentation material for the monthly and quarterly financial review meetings, as well as the long-range plans, support strategic planning and target setting.
This group will have to be particularly careful of the specifics of GSC as this group manage large amounts of expenses that translate into opportunities for NOP efficiencies. Therefore, it is critical to understand supply drivers as well as business dynamics affecting them. An open and constant collaboration should exist between this group and the rest of the corporate FP/A group.
Reporting and Insight Driven Analysis 40%
Lead the development and understanding of background and financial data worked by this team to guide decision-making for a brand, channel or global function via: standard reports, standard variance analysis, consolidate reports and data reconciliations. Expected to prioritize, manage, update, and automate standard reports, as well as support master data enrichment activities, analytics and reporting, and interface with Record to Report relating to judgmental accruals. This role will support the owner of the Central dashboard reporting for automated reports.
Qualifications
OneSource
Brings personalized experiences to enhance delivery
Provides responsive and flexible services
Creates an accountability and “own it” culture
Innovative/Change agent. Experiments with new concepts and approaches.Comes up with creative solutions to difficult problems.
Data and SLA commitment driven
Continuous improvement and service oriented mindset; consistently reviews processes and procedures to reduce delivery time, drive efficiency and effectiveness and improve client experience.
Functional
Functional customers: VP Finance GSC
Strong background on cost controlling and on streamlining business processes
Great ability relating to problem resolution and understanding root cause analysis
Ability to standardize and drive insights from different sources that provide senior leaders with a holistic view of the financial health of the entire company as opposed to a limited view be region or brand
Strong focus on collaborating effectively with internal customers understanding the audience and their area of focus
Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated skill to deliver key messages to leaders while keeping team informed of all potential escalations
Must be able to lead teams and deliver results through them
Is knowledgeable on the required analysis to assess business opportunities.
Additional Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance/Administration preferred
Minimum Years of Experience: 6 years
Travel time: 5-10%.
Fully bilingual, English and Spanish.
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Ubicación: Punta Pacifica | Provincia: Panamá
Requisitos • Género: Indiferente • Edad de 20 a 40 años. • Que resida en la Capital de Panamá o a 1 hora de Multiplaza....
Publicación: 20/09/2018 - Salario: 2000
