Fp&a Manager

**Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging solutions. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe**:
**Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.**:
**Position Overview**: Lead the strategic and operational financial planning for South America, ensuring consistency, alignment with global objectives, and support for executive decision-making. Responsible for coordinating budgets, forecasts, performance analyses, and management of South America's financial KPIs.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Manage the development, motivation, goal setting, retention, and performance of team members, aiming to maximize both individual and team performance, while identifying opportunities within Ball's career and succession planning.
- Lead the full financial planning cycle (annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and mid
- to long-term plans) for South American countries, ensuring accuracy and critical analysis of the information provided by the team.
- Coordinate result projections, balance sheet, and cash flow activities for South America.
- Consolidate and analyze regional financial data, ensuring consistency with global policies and compliance with local regulations.
- Provide strategic support to the FP&A Director and other business leaders by translating financial data into insights and recommendations.
- Coordinate and develop local FP&A teams, ensuring process integration and standardization of models and tools.
- Ensure timely and accurate completion of financial analyses and reports requested by global and regional teams (BPSA).
- Develop variance analyses (actual vs. budget vs. forecast), identify risks and opportunities, and propose corrective actions.
- Support pricing, profitability, CAPEX, strategic projects, and operational efficiency processes in partnership with business units.
- Drive continuous improvements in processes, report automation, and the use of analytical tools (BI, ERP, etc.).
- Support and validate return analysis for investment projects.
**Main Requirements & Skills**:
- Completed Bachelor's degree in business administration, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or related fields.
- MBA or Postgraduate studies in Finance, Strategy, or Controllership is a plus.
- Advanced or Fluent English.
- Experience in FP&A, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Experience in multicultural or multinational operations, with a focus on South America, is a plus.
- Strong background in financial planning, modeling, performance analysis, and executive leadership support.
- Advanced Spanish (desirable due to regional scope).
**Skills**:
- Strategic mindset and business vision
- Leadership and influence in multicultural environments
- Strong analytical skills and results-oriented
- Sense of urgency, organization, and resilience
- Clear and effective communication with stakeholders at all levels
- Strong focus on continuous improvement
**Technical Knowledge**:
- Solid knowledge in budgeting, strategic planning, and financial control
- Strong understanding of financial indicators, financial math, and project evaluation (Payback, NPV, IRR)
- Solid knowledge in corporate finance and financial modeling skills
- Knowledge in accounting and tax regulations
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with SAP (ERP)
- HFM knowledge is desirable
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.
Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
No agencies please.

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