Full-time
Employee Status: Regular
Role Type: Hybrid
Department: Finance
Schedule: Full Time
Shift: Day Shift
**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.
We consolidated our position as the fifth-best company to work for in Costa Rica according to the GPTW ranking!
These results reflect the hard work and commitment to make Experian a great place to work, climbing from #14 last year to #5. It is also evidence of the company's work to ensure the well-being of its talent community through an inclusive culture, a balanced work environment, employee development, and flexible work practices.
Costa Rica FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) 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.
EMS (Experian Marketing Services) organization is looking for an intelligent, career-minded, driven professional to support the Finance team in a role that combines Finance, Business Intelligence and problem solving. This role is dynamic, provides opportunity for development, and will give you exposure to the Experian Marketing Services Organization as well as the Costa Rica internal FP&A team.
- Support the revenue forecasting, reporting and analysis.
- 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.
- Advanced English level.
- 4+ years of progressive experience in Finance or Accounting processes.
- Experience in financial forecasting and analysis, including revenue forecasting experience.
- Experience handling large data sets and drawing analytical conclusions.
- 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 ability to work in system details as well as summarize and explain large amounts of information including variances to budget and forecast.
- 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 envir