Company Description
**Experian is a global leader in providing information, analytical and marketing services to organizations and consumers to help manage the risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions.**
Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. At life's big moments - from buying a home or car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business exponentially by connecting it with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence so they can maximize every opportunity.
We gather, analyze and process data in ways others can't. We help individuals take financial control and access financial services, businesses make smarter decision and thrive, lenders lend more responsibly, and organizations prevent identity fraud and crime.
For more than 125 years, we've helped consumers and clients prosper, and economies and communities flourish - and we're not done.
Our 21,700 people in 30 countries believe the possibilities for you, and our world, are growing. We're investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow.
**Job Description**:
Costa Rica FP&A Team is seeking a strong Financial Analyst Expert to support North America business unit month end close responsibilities, revenue recognition, reporting functions and sales forecasting. This role will be responsible for providing support internally within the business unit, in additional to North American Corporate Experian, creating partnership and constantly looking for process optimization.
This position will provide opportunities to work closely with North America Finance Teams and support EDQ (Experian Data Quality) business unit with specific analysis and reporting, gaining invaluable experience and exposure through interacting with many different departments within the business unit as well as being in contact with different management levels. This role is dynamic, provides opportunity for development, and will give you exposure to the EDQ Organization as well as the Costa Rica internal FP&A team.
- Support the revenue forecasting, reporting and analysis.
- Assist with annual Strategic Plan, Budget and audit support.
- Support the month-end close and prepare monthly management reports.
- Owns reporting with commentary/variance explanations.
- Perform ad-hoc analysis and present the findings to local and regional management.
- Participate in different month-end calls with the corresponding business unit where it's responsible for his input or any explanation of the processes own.
- Provide information/inputs for monthly financial packages to management.
- Strong partnership with BUs to solve issues and create efficiencies or new proposals.
- Proactively seek and develop projects to ensure productivity or savings to his current processes.
- Serve as a backup for monthly routine team deliverables.
- Comfortable multi-tasking and taking on a range of miscellaneous finance team responsibilities.
- Leverage Hyperion technology to further improve system automations, analysis capabilities and standardized reporting.
- Lead ad hoc projects to prepare and report non-standard or financial information as requested by senior management.
- Drive process improvements and standardization across financial reporting and analysis models.
- Adhere to service level agreements (SLAs) and performance metrics.
- Create and maintain desktop procedure documents for routine processes.
**Qualifications**:
**Applicants must meet the following requirements**:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Economics, Accounting, or other related discipline.
- Master's in business administration, Certified Public Accountant, other related master's degree considered as a plus.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in Finance or Accounting processes.
- Advanced English level.
- Strong Excel skill required; Experience/knowledge of financial systems and tools including OBIEE, Hyperion Planning/Essbase and Smartview.
- Strong ability to work in system details as well as summarize and explain large amounts of information including variances to budget and forecast.
- Positive attitude, strong collaborative style, and work ethic with passion for learning in a flexible and changing environment.
- Strong business partnering skills with a focus on customer service and responsiveness, preferably experience supporting other finance professionals.
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with all levels within the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement and solve problems in a team environment.
- Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize multiple projects under tight deadlines and work independently.
- Integrity in research/analysis and commitment to accuracy.
**Preferred Qualifications**:
- Experience in financial forecasting and analysis, with revenue forecast