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.
**Job Description**:
This position will play a vital role in the creation of a regional FP&A team that supports Experian's North America business units. The primary focus will be creating additional capacity for the Costa Rica GFS Team to continue supporting North America business units by effectively and efficiently transitioning finance responsibilities from US-based teams to GFS Costa Rica. Also, will be responsibility for Consolidating Financials at specific Business Unit Level.
This role will have the opportunity to work closely with Finance teams across all North America businesses and support business unit specific analysis as well as region-wide initiatives to improve planning and reporting capabilities. This position also offers strong career growth for the right individual.
- Manage the end-to-end process of transitioning finance responsibilities from multiple teams in the US to a single team in Costa Rica. This includes communication, planning, scoping, selection, training, transition, controls and feedback.
- Manage partnership with Executives across multiple business units to warranty the excellence in the service provided by the GFS Team in Costa Rica.
- Manage quarter, monthly and weekly deliverables of all transitioned responsibilities with a focus on excellence and accuracy. Which may include, Labor Planning Forecast, Revenue Forecast, No Labor Cost Forecast, Financial Modeling, Project Financials, Commissions, etc.
- Support the month end activities like Flash reports, setting accruals, etc. Leading forecast/budget process for assigned BUs for assigned accounts.
- Run financial analysis ad hoc, for month End and Forecast period for Directors and above levels, as well as participate in Business calls to explain outputs.
- Maintain strong business partnering relationships with all North America business units while encouraging trust and transparency.
- Consistently train and 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.
- Institute an effective documentation program to ensure creation and maintenance of desktop procedures including upstream and downstream impacts.
- Lead a Team +10 people and working on developing them to continue providing value to the Business Units.
**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Economics, Accounting or other related bachelor's degree.
- 100% English fluency.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in Finance.
- Experience in finance roles with varying FP&A responsibilities including, but not limited to: variable cost reporting and forecasting, capital expenditure reporting and forecasting, royalty calculations and forecasting, cost and revenue allocations, revenue metric and KPI reporting, driver-based revenue forecasting models.
- Experience successfully business partnering with all levels of North America business unit finance.
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to drive collaboration and consistency in business support across a team.
- Strong Enterprise systems a must.
- Strong partnership and influencing skills.
- High attention to detai