FP&A Senior Analyst Costs - Pipeline

at  EXPERIAN

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Job Description
The Costa Rica FP&A Team is seeking a strong Senior Financial Analyst to support the North America business, with all financial deliverables such as month end close responsibilities, revenue and cost forecasting, annual budget, regular monitoring of business performance metrics and other ad hoc analysis. This role will primarily be responsible for providing revenue business partner support internally within the business unit. There will also be collaboration with Finance teams within North American Corporate Experian.

Unique selling point of role:

• Exposure to a dynamic, fast-paced, high-performing business. In the last couple of years, the D2C Marketplace business has significantly scaled. In recent months, the business has acquired and launched new offerings to consumers in new vertical markets (with more launches on the horizon).
• Interaction and partnership with teams across multiple functions (e.g., analytics, product management, customer engagement and client account management teams), largely based in California, as well as Finance teams based in Costa Rica
• The Direct-to-Consumer business is unique as it is the only consumer facing ecommerce.
• This position will be a key role in a growing team and will provide additional opportunities for growth for the right individual.

The successful candidate will be accountable for the following key duties and responsibilities:

• Business partner with product development around development of computer software savings plan. Ongoing management of forecast, actuals and influencing engineering to further optimize spend.
• Ongoing management of computer software and D&A MMC (Monday Morning Call) and month end processes. This includes communicating to various audiences (with multiple versions of reporting) including business partners, CTO (Chief Technology Officer), BU (Business Unit), CFO (Chief Financial Officer).
• Responsible for managing Nike MCE (My Customer Experience) business partnering with both CIS (Consumer Information Services) and ECS (Experian Consumer Services). This includes managing MMC (Monday Morning Call), month end and communicating views including drivers and commentary on changes to the Nike MCE program.
• Ongoing management of Drome time tracking tool from a finance perspective. This includes communicating ongoing changes to Drome that finance needs to engineering. This also includes flagging any risks/concerns around Drome and determining team reporting needs in Drome.
• Ability to condense complex detailed information into high level commentary for an executive level audience CFO, CTO etc. (both written and verbally).
• Ability to build strong relationships with business partners.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or other related discipline.
• Advanced English level is a must. This role will be giving support to NA business units.
• 4+ years of progressive experience in Finance at a business unit level.
• Experience in commercial finance, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and analysis.
• Strong experience in financial models for forecasting and business scenario evaluation.
• Ability to interpret financial data from large data sets, verify the accuracy and draw out the key highlights.
• Ability to effectively balance detail orientation while maintaining accuracy.
• Strong skills with business intelligence tools and financial systems.
• Expert level skills in Excel.
• Proactive and independent, with proven record of taking the initiative, driving processes end-to-end and executing continuous improvement.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s in business administration, Certified Public Accountant, other related Master’s degree.
• Experience with Power Bi, Tableau, Oracle, and Hyperion a plus.
• Competence in developing models.

Additional Information
Our benefits include: Medical, life and dental insurance, Asociación Solidarista, International Share Save Plan, Flex Work/Work from home, Paid time off, Annual Performance Bonus, Education Reimbursement, Family Bonding, Bereavement Leave, Referral Program, and more.
Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow. We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. For us, this is The Power of YOU and it ensures that we live what we believe

Unique selling point of role:

• Exposure to a dynamic, fast-paced, high-performing business. In the last couple of years, the D2C Marketplace business has significantly scaled. In recent months, the business has acquired and launched new offerings to consumers in new vertical markets (with more launches on the horizon).
• Interaction and partnership with teams across multiple functions (e.g., analytics, product management, customer engagement and client account management teams), largely based in California, as well as Finance teams based in Costa Rica
• The Direct-to-Consumer business is unique as it is the only consumer facing ecommerce.
• This position will be a key role in a growing team and will provide additional opportunities for growth for the right individual

The successful candidate will be accountable for the following key duties and responsibilities:

• Business partner with product development around development of computer software savings plan. Ongoing management of forecast, actuals and influencing engineering to further optimize spend.
• Ongoing management of computer software and D&A MMC (Monday Morning Call) and month end processes. This includes communicating to various audiences (with multiple versions of reporting) including business partners, CTO (Chief Technology Officer), BU (Business Unit), CFO (Chief Financial Officer).
• Responsible for managing Nike MCE (My Customer Experience) business partnering with both CIS (Consumer Information Services) and ECS (Experian Consumer Services). This includes managing MMC (Monday Morning Call), month end and communicating views including drivers and commentary on changes to the Nike MCE program.
• Ongoing management of Drome time tracking tool from a finance perspective. This includes communicating ongoing changes to Drome that finance needs to engineering. This also includes flagging any risks/concerns around Drome and determining team reporting needs in Drome.
• Ability to condense complex detailed information into high level commentary for an executive level audience CFO, CTO etc. (both written and verbally).
• Ability to build strong relationships with business partners