Financial Reporting & Planning Specialist

Mission

The role will take the lead on Group’s controlling corporate processes and masterdata, responsible for the integrity and consistency of the analytical data used to explain the financial performance compared to several scenarios (actual, budget, rolling forecast, etc) within the Group Consolidation team, which reports to the Group’s CFO

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Collaboration with PBI product owners, understanding the Financial Analytics Datasets, giving support to the Group users, promoting PBI usage among the company and identifying improvements in the current models.
• Responsible for the preparation of Group’s analytical data which is used by the different area/country responsible to follow-up business performance. Main tasks include:
  • Ensure data consistency and integrity between cost centers and cost elements.
  • Launch of allocation cycles, mainly CO-PA level
  • Controlling master data maintenance, basically cost centers.
• Support on the Group Financial Planning tool, giving assistance to the Group Controlling team to meet the stablished deadlines. Provide user aid and maintenance during the annual budget cycle and subsequent forecast cycles.
• Participation in the Reporting to the Management Board about the Group performance and preparation of the audited Financial Statements
• Collaboration in the assessment and testing related to user requests for enhancements over the Controlling and Planning tools, giving support to the BPO function and also identify improvement opportunities over the current business processes or tools.

Education/ Experience

• Degree in Finance or Economics
• 2+ years of relevant experience in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• Highly analytical and advanced problem-solving skills.
• Power BI expertise, both in reporting and data modelling
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling
• Intellectually curious with strong bias to action, strong ability to take initiative and self-start when necessary.
• Results-oriented, highly energetic, dynamic individual with hands-on mentality.
• Effective written communication skills both in English
• Fair understanding of accounting concepts (IFRS, mainly).
• Business partnering experience; ability to build positive business relationships and work collaboratively.

Values

• Care; we listen & empathize, we value diverse perspectives & backgrounds and we help each other succeed.
• Courage; we challenge the status quo, we take full ownership and we learn from our success & failures
• Innovation; we put the patient and customer at the center, we create novel solutions and we empower entrepreneurial mindsets.
• Simplicity; we act decisively and avoid over-analysis, we understand why before we act and we are agile & keep things simple.