FP&A COE Analyst
**Mission of the role**:
Lead sub-region financial planning and planning process improvement projects across Latin America.
Work with the sub-region finance and BI&DA teams in order to influence other areas to optimize financial planning process and improve forecast accuracy.
Provide relevant insights and analytics to sub-region Leadership Team and Latin America FP&A Leaders for making better decisions in the business and quality discussions in Latin America MBRs.
Key customers include Sub-region Vice President and Finance Director, LAO Finance Director FP&A, LAO FP&A COE Manager, Cluster Lead and Finance Manager.
**About the role**:
- Contribute to time and quality delivery strong analytics and insights to the business through the standard set of reports, lead the Quarterly forecasts, Annual Business Plan, Playbook and Bi-weekly estimates, acting as a key business partner for the sub-region/cluster leaders.
- Interact with the different functions, mainly with local analysts, management roles to ensure consistency in projections, analyses and sensitivities to drive best possible business decisions.
- Track monthly progress against last forecast commitments and targets, providing timely visibility of gaps, potential deviations vs quarterly and full year projections and insightful analysis in key metrics.
- Work under strong partnership and engagement with the Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Team to continuously improve our set of business reports and analytics, perform Anaplan/Power BI control checks on monthly results and quarterly forecasts.
- Develop analytical capabilities, in partnership with Latin America FP&A Central Team, to understand changes in P&L actuals and forecasts, trends and other analyses involving macroeconomic assumptions, supporting decision making to meet or exceed financial commitments.
- Lead/participate in Latin America meaningful projects to continuously improve and enable business growth.
**About you**:
- 8 years of experience in finance for commercial and/or supply, operations function, finance planning, business analysis
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering or Finance
- English level intermediate-advance
- Experience with business information systems: Excel, SAP, Anaplan (Optional) and Power BI (nice to have)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Good analytical skills with ability to identify opportunities, risks and make recommendations
- Demonstrated strengths in interpersonal communications, critical thinking, technical skills.
- MBA (Nice to have)
**Primary Location**: Colombia
- Bogota
**Additional Locations**: Costa Rica - San Jose
**Worker Type**: Employee
**Worker Sub-Type**: Regular
**Time Type**: Full time