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.
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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**:
This position will manage Labor Planning FP&A functions for North America to support region-wide planning and reporting functions.
This role will collaborate with finance teams across the North America region to improve and streamline planning and reporting functions through standardization of common functions.
The initial focus will be on labor cost planning and analysis.
This role, will also provide opportunities to work in a dynamic environment, supporting 12 business units, managing complex processes and being able to have direct contact to Executives levels, work with a 5 people team.
This team member needs to be confident to explain financial results to Executive and being proactive to anticipate analysis/questions, as well as being a quick response to come back with more information as it requested.
Also, this person will be in charge of guidelines communication to the FP&A community, which means coordinating with multiple teams to get agreements and being able to summarize agreements.
- Lead monthly and annual labor analysis and planning processes strategically and operationally.
- Lead standardization efforts to create efficiencies across financial reporting and analysis models.
- Prepare in-depth analysis on drivers of labor and headcount movements and research variances across source systems.
- Lead continuous improvements in forecast accuracy, process efficiencies, and system automations.
- Adhere to service level agreements (SLAs) and performance metrics.
- Drive the creation of and maintenance of desktop procedure documents for routine processes through creating a system and implementing governance and controls.
- Redesign and maintain all status reporting across multiple projects while ensuring escalation of risks including resourcing constraints, delays, etc.
while ensuring all reporting deliverables are met in an accurate and timely manner.
- Proactively engage and build strong relationships with the business teams so as to stay connected on new products and services as well as client activities.
- Provide support for ad hoc request & perform special projects as needed.
- Lead teams of 8-10 individuals supporting various business units across all aspects of the P&L.
Overseeing day to day of their deliverables.
Set right KPIs to measure accomplishment.
- Leading/Owning month end, forecast and reporting activities for the assigned Business unit.
- Develop proper governance and controls to ensure all deliverables are met accurately and timely and any issues are escalated appropriately.
- Consistently develop team members in existing and newly transitioned responsibilities with a focus on strong business partnering, cross training and process improvement.
- Lead projects to continuously improve team output and level of service by utilizing lean and robotics process automation (RPA) methodologies.
**Qualifications**:
**Minimum Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Economics, Accounting or other related bachelor's degree.
- ** Advanced English level.
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- +6y Experience in accounting/finance roles with varying FP&A responsibilities including, but not limited to: variable cost reporting and forecasting, capital expenditure reporting and forecasting, bonus/commission/royalty calculations, cost and revenue allocations, revenue metric and KPI reporting, driver-based revenue forecasting models.
- +2y experience as people leader, focused on people development and overseeing daily activities.
- Ability to lead change across the organization and within the Costa Rica finance team, both on systems and processes.
- Strong business partnering with all levels across several regions/countries business unit finance.
- Strong knowledge of financial reporting and analysis.
- Experience running forec