FP&A Employee Cost Transformation & Analytics, Manager

at  The Este Lauder Companies

About the Estée Lauder Companies!
ELC (Estee Lauder Companies) is a global leader in prestige beauty that delights consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. They are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in 150 countries. Infused throughout their organization is a passion for creativity and innovation; a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected.
From a position of strength, The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), the leader in prestige beauty products, embarked on the Leading Beauty Forward program, chartered to fuel product innovation and enhance market agility. A key element of this strategy was the design of a new way to support its suite of 30 brands globally. The company chose Panama as being best suited to establish its new Global Business Services (GBS) operation center. This new center will initially deliver Finance, Human Resources and Legal services to ELC employees across several geographies and time zones. Through a new innovative service minded approach, this center will redefine service standards globally at ELC. This new GBS team will provide a one-stop-shop solution for the ELC businesses, supported by new customer engagement insights, new systems, and new reporting. In addition to delivering exceptional service to the ELC businesses each day, the GBS team will also be responsible for continuously streamlining work in pursuit of growing its service offering in support of achieving ELC’s strategic and business objectives. New site, new team, new opportunity.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This role will support Employee Cost Data Analytics Team, as part of the OneSource Finance organization – The role encompasses accountability for all deliverables and the development of a junior analyst. Key responsibilities include ensuring accurate fiscal bonus review and reconciliation, leading and co-leading ad-hoc projects related to employee costs, and developing and presenting comprehensive analyses on fringe benefits, bonuses, and other key elements of employee costs to the Employee Cost Data Analytics Team.
A critical aspect of this role includes overseeing the responsibilities and processes of the junior analyst, ensuring their professional development and the accuracy of their work. This includes supervising the preparation of Employee Cost Run-Rate reports for actual and estimate, ensuring the timely and accurate running of Fringe reports for Canada and US business units, managing the distribution of HR Connect / Taleo files, overseeing the fiscal bonus review of JE recorded and corresponding reconciliation for NA business units, and guiding the junior analyst in predictive analytics tasks to support strategic decision-making.
Additionally, the role involves engaging with business owners regarding fringe benefits, managing the relationship with Genpact, and streamlining Journal Entry (JE) nomenclature to enhance efficiency. The role will also identify, align, and deploy initiatives leveraging OneSource capabilities and services, such as Data Services, Analytics, Automations, and Service Placement. This position is crucial for maintaining the financial integrity and operational efficiency of the Employee Cost Data Analytics Team through meticulous analysis, project management, and stakeholder collaboration.
Qualifications

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting, CPA/Masters a plus.
• 5+ years of Finance or Accounting, with process reengineering and project management experience.
• Excellent analytical capabilities to translate data into Executive level insights and metrics
• Advanced Excel, OneStream skills a must.
• Proficiency in SAP, PowerPoint and Word.
• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g.: Power-bi).
• Ability to work/analyze/build efficient analyses and reports.
• Experience in leading, aligning, and engaging on team vision.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills required, including direct interaction with Senior Stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor the finance operations team, fostering collaboration and professional growth.
• Excellent ability to work independently, define priorities and align leadership.
• Flexibility to adapt to the changing needs and direction of Senior Management.
• Excellent organization, writing and listening skills
  Job: Finance & Accounting
  Primary Location: Latin America-PA-
  Job Type: Standard
  Schedule: Full-time
  Shift: 1st (Day) Shift
  Job Number: 241012

• Ensuring accurate fiscal bonus review and reconciliation.
• Leading and co-leading ad-hoc projects related to employee costs.
• Developing and presenting comprehensive analyses on fringe benefits, bonuses, and other key elements of employee costs to the Employee Cost Data Analytics Team.
• Overseeing the responsibilities and processes of the junior analyst, ensuring their professional development and the accuracy of their work.
• Supervising the preparation of Employee Cost Run-Rate reports for actual and estimate.
• Ensuring the timely and accurate running of Fringe reports for Canada and US business units.
• Managing the distribution of HR Connect / Taleo files.
• Overseeing the fiscal bonus review of JE recorded and corresponding reconciliation for NA business units.
• Guiding the junior analyst in predictive analytics project and model validation
• Engaging with business owners regarding fringe benefits.
• Managing the relationship with Genpact.
• Streamlining Journal Entry (JE) nomenclature to enhance efficiency.
• Identifying, aligning, and deploying initiatives leveraging OneSource capabilities and services, such as Data Services, Analytics, Automations, and Service Placement.
• Maintaining the financial integrity and operational efficiency of processes within scope
• Serve a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) between employee cost process owners in OneSource and Employee Cost Analytics Team / CoEs for process enhancement, policy changing cascading, etc
• Lead / Co-lead efforts within OneSource Finance to harmonize, streamline and automate Employee Cost planning process, as well as develop analysis on footprint and adoption of centralized model globally