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FP&A Professional
Marketing and Support Functions, LATAM
Location: Panama Reports to: Director, FP&A – LATAM
SUMMARY:
This role will partner with the LATAM FP&A Manager, in providing strategic, financial, commercial and operational analytics & insights to the Latin America team in order to maximize financial returns of the region. It will work on identifying and developing new business opportunities ensuring capital is invested with correct ROI analytics. It will manage submission of marketing and support functions financial plan, ensuring they are submitted in accordance with global direction while developing the level of detail and accuracy.
Responsible for the financial models to assess financial performance and health of the Latin America Business, consulting with Senior Management on both Under Armour profitability and for recommending and implementing process improvement opportunities and improving commercial effectiveness.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Department Planning, reporting and forecasting
Financial Planning
Work with LATAM FP&A Manager, marketing team and support functions to develop 5-year strategic plan; ensuring financial plan reflects regional strategy
Manage the quarterly forecast submissions as well as the in-month latest estimate updates for marketing; Ensuring plans are submitted in accordance with the process and continuously seeking to improve accuracy
Responsible for Quarterly Business Review presentations; building financial synthesis to marketing and support functions submissions
Business Analytics
Interpret, analyze and review financial results and KPIs of marketing and support functions to provide recommendations, ensure accountability and drive performance
Management reporting; giving business updates on performance and outlining and defining actions
Contribute to continuous development of business reports and the reporting process to ensure they are reporting developing trends and relevant metrics in the businesses in accordance with the Global framework
Prepare monthly and quarterly actual variance analysis versus operating plans, prior year results and current forecasts for marketing and support functions
Business partner with Director, Marketing LATAM and marketing leadership team to identify new business opportunities and ensure investments and operation drives to maximize return on investment
Work with all support function heads to understand all variances vs. plan as well as ensuring control against cost center budgets
Investment Analytics
Complete ROI and capital asset requests supporting marketing investments
Perform profitability and investment analysis on marketing projects
Support ROI analytics for support function projects
Financial Control
Monitor and review return on investment to feedback to future projects
Approve cost center budgets and monitor expenditure against the budgets
Approve capex budgets and monitor spends against those budgets
Other
Communicate frequently and effectively with all levels and provide recommendations to management on strategic initiatives, project execution and calendar updates
Presentation of results and financial plans to regional and global leadership
Assist in the development of yearly budgets for channels utilizing historical data and current market condition data finding opportunities to mitigate risks
Technical Attributes of Ideal Candidate:include but are not limited to the following:
Undergraduate Finance-related degree (Accounting/Business Administration)
Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office (especially financial modeling in Excel - preferably with VBA skills)
Familiarity with corporate financial accounting systems (SAP, BPC, Hyperion preferred)
3 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Accounting and/ or Business Analysis
Fluent in English and Spanish
Behavioral Attributes of Ideal Candidate:include but are not limited to the following:
Inspired Leadership. Articulates a compelling vision and the roadmap to success; adept at aligning and empowering a diverse set of teammates and stakeholders
Team Player. Loves being part of a team, both leading and serving; demonstrated deep commitment to colleagues; highly effective in a matrix environment
Humble & Hungry. Confidence without arrogance; driven to continually “up their game" regardless of prior successes
Unparalleled Integrity. In good times and bad, lives the UA Way; takes ownership for mistakes; delivers tough messages directly; doesn’t “back-channel”
Action Oriented. "Can do" and "does do" attitude; authentically engaged with people and situations
Accountable. Commits to stretch goals and delivers; holds self and team to highest performance standards
“Gets” Under Armour. Passionately embraces the challenge and effort to keep UA unique; committed to go the extra mile to build/protect the brand
Personal qualities/skills
Team work
Flexibility
Proactivity
Written and verbal communication
Planning and organizing
Problem solving
Calm under pressure
Influence and persuasion skills
People skills
At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
