The Manager is a managerial role, with overall line management responsibility for a small team that provides intermediate and advanced support through all phases of the financial planning and analysis processes including business partnering and working on cross functional projects.
The Manager, is in charge of business forecasting and corresponding budgets as well as performance-based analyses.
The FP&A Manager aims to predict future financial outcomes by considering economic and business trends, reviewing past company performance, in the forecasting and budgeting process.
Key Responsibilities:
Support the execution of financial planning and analysis processes, projects, and ad-hoc requests as required by the Finance organization by embracing the following responsibilities:
- Lead, supervise and review the preparation of the monthly reports and variance analysis, in a timely manner.
Including the use of financial KPI analysis and identifying historical trends that will offer value added insights and help identify key focus areas for management
- Lead, supervise and review the business planning processes and deliverables: forecast, budget, 5 year strategic plan, etc.
Deliver driver based presentational outputs for discussion with senior management
- Actively partner with the local, regional and global contacts and communicate effectively with the business to foster good working relationships with the rest of the organization
- Lead and review the development of new reporting solutions
- Play a key role to proactively lead and evaluate the recommendation and implementations of best practices for enhancements to current processes and reporting, including identifying area's for productivity and driving the standardization of activities across business planning to harness efficiencies
- Provide formal guidance or on the job training to all team members
- Lead, supervise and review special projects as assigned by Senior Finance management
- Post-graduate qualification in Finance, Accounting, Statistics or other quantitative field (e.g.
MBA, CPA/CA, CIMA, ACCA)
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Financial Planning and analysis processes and modelling, or equivalent.
Business intelligence tools, and data science experience is a plus
- Excellent verbal & written English skills
- Detail and data quality oriented and capable to summarize and effectively communicate findings/analysis to senior stakeholder management
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (preferably: Office 365), financial modeling and related financial systems
- Advanced analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- Strong knowledge of basic accounting concepts
Key Competencies:
- Desire to learn new skills with high-level problem-solving skills and covering new challenges
- Excellent attention to detail, able to work large amounts of data, able to review/assess other's team member's deliverables
- Proactiveness, ensuring alignment with business requirements and management expectation
- Able to work both independently and as a member of a team by interacting and collaborating with members of other teams across the organization
- Demonstrates flexibility with last minute changes in commitments, deadlines, and meetings attendance
- Able to handle large volumes of data while ensuring data accuracy, including the ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to draw conclusions and assist on decision making
- Highly motivated, participative as a change agent mentality that can provide financial leadership
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At Moody's, we provide opportunities for you to support your professional and personal goals.
We offer competitive compensation and forward-thinking benefits designed to support your needs today and in the future.
This includes but is not limited to, flexible work arrangements, medical and life insurance, employee and educational assistance programs, a generous paid time off policy, and our Asociacion Solidarista.
Moody's is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
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