Company Description
Experian is the world's leading global information services company.
During life's big moments - from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence.
We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.
As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.
We have been named by Forbes magazine as one of the "World's Most Innovative Companies" and ranked on Fortune's Best Companies to work for.
**Job Description**:
- Lead a team of finance professionals in Costa Rica.
- Work cross functionally to understand implications of cost movements to financial performance of IT services and allocations.
- Prepare in-depth analysis on drivers of cost movements and research variances across source systems.
- Maintain EITS service catalogue, ensuring that this is in-line with industry best practice.
- Support EITS service costing and pricing strategy and related processes.
- Support EITS service billing processes, ensuring that all EITS costs are charged to internal partners in-line with service consumption and leveraging appropriate commercial principles.
- Provide high-quality management information and analytics to support re-charge of technology costs to internal partners.
- Support strategic and annual financial planning processes for EITS services, ensuring that robust multi-year services and re-charge budgets are prepared, syndicated, reviewed and approved by senior leadership.
- Support the design and implementation of Technology Business Management (TBM) strategy for Experian and related process changes required to achieve best-in-class approach to technology spend management.
- Provide support to internal partners in interrogating and understanding their monthly technology bills, including proactive identification of cost optimization opportunities.
- Act as a TBM evangelist, ensuring that Experian has best-in-class approach to technology cost management and continues to drive innovation in this discipline.
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or other related bachelor's degree.
8+ years of progressive experience in Finance.
- Advanced analytical and data analysis skills.
- Experience in financial management processes such as budgeting, forecasting and cost allocations.
- Strong business partnering skills with a focus on customer service and responsiveness.
- Solid understanding of month end processes and reporting, GL (General Ledger), and P&L analysis/variance explanations would be a plus.
- Experience in forecasting and budgeting.
- Experience presenting and partnering at Senior Leader levels.
- Strong Excel skills required.
Experience/knowledge of financial systems and tools including OBIEE, Hyperion Planning/Essbase and Smartview is required.
- Tableau and Alteryx knowledge preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong English fluency.
- Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement and solve problems in a team environment.
- Excellent skills in data analytics with the ability to draw concise insights from large sets of data.
- Ability to balance between detail orientation and the high-level summaries while maintaining accuracy.
- Aptitude to learn and drive continuous improvement and solve problems in a team environment.
Experience leading improvement efforts preferred.
- Ability to multi -task several important priorities simultaneously.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
Ability to have fun and bring a sense of humor to work.
Additional Information
Our benefits include: Medical, life and dental insurance, Asociacion Solidarista, International Share Save Plan, Flex Work/Work from home, Paid time off, Annual Performance Bonus, Education Reimbursement, Family Bonding, Bereavement Leave, Referral Program, and more.
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- Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together.
We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow.
We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work.
For us, this is _**_The Power of YOU_**_ and it ensures that we live what we believe._