**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Drive adoption of the financial and integration governance model and processes across all phases of the M&A project.
- Spearhead the development of cost and work estimates for new acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures, collecting and validating estimates from various groups within a large technical team.
Develop and present work estimate summaries with a goal of identifying gaps and delivering high-confidence estimates.
- Continuously improve how monthly financial forecasting and budget comparison is conducted, ensuring that guidelines are followed.
Derive key takeaways and action items from the forecast/budgeting exercise results.
- Collaborate with M&A leadership to identify areas where historical data is needed to better estimate current and future work (scope, resourcing, costs).
Develop plan/framework to collect, validate, and evangelise historical data.
- Monitor and control reporting of high impact technology program risks, ensuring project owners have appropriate response plans in place.
- Establish and manage data/financial reviews at appropriate points across the technology program, providing evaluations of program progress and key performance indicators.
- Gather and review data and information from across the technology program to evidence that the information is valid and provides assurance that programs outcomes will be met.
- Establish and maintain governance processes for the performance review of portfolios, defining clear roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, including the inputs and outputs required to align with organizational practices.
- Partner with leaders and SMEs across M&A to identify and resolve data inaccuracies across the aggregated project portfolio.
- Consolidate and document management information "report packs" with fundamental components of the technology program performance data such as budget, schedule, risks, opportunities, and issues.
- Continuously learn and researches new techniques and methodologies to save time and improve quality.
**Requirements**:
- 5+ years of experience in a Technical Business Analyst role, partially or wholly focused on project/program financials.
- BS/BA degree or experience in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Collaboration with a portfolio/program office.
- Understanding of project management tools and methodologies.
- Understanding of cost, forecasting, and budget/risk management.
- Experience developing and maintaining management information reports as well as executive summary reports.
- Ability to effectively collaborate and influence people and teams to gather information and remediate issues.
- Experience performing data analysis and business process analysis
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with a project related tools such as Planview, MS Project, Smartsheet or advanced Excel.
- Risk and opportunity management
- Budget and financial management including cost-benefit analysis
- Technical discovery and due diligence
- Technical reporting
- Stakeholder engagement
- Consolidated planning
- Change management
**Benefits**
- Hybrid (2 days working at Ultra park II Lagunilla, Heredia and 3 days WFH)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Asociacion Solidarista
- Life Insurance
- Personal Day Off