Strategic Financial Decision Maker

This individual is responsible for understanding the customers' vision and needs in terms of financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and analytical activities that support major business decisions and overall financial health.

The primary function of this role is to deliver high-impact value through products and tools that facilitate the combination of financial operations and external data to drive analytics that uncover in-depth insights needed for business planning and guide more profitable decision making.

He/she partners closely with the Financial Planning & Analysis Product Owner to support making the product vision a reality and maximize business value for the organization.

He/She works in partnership with the SCRUM development team, functional stakeholders (Finance), other IT/technical specialists or Chapter roles, support areas, and external technology vendors.

• Business Strategy / Strategic Vision

- Partners in an agile way with Finance stakeholders in relation to planning, forecasting, budgeting, and KPIs, to co-create business value leveraging technology to develop financial planning and reporting tools, able to gather data and provide insights to monitor financial performance.

- Contributes to the vision of the product, its definition, and the associated value. Makes recommendations to build and sustain the backlog, arbitrating among different needs and priorities.

- Ensures consistency between the needs of end-users and stakeholders, as reflected in the vision of the product, its delivery, and its deployment & adoption

- Understands the business needs, proactively conducts exploratory and confirmatory analysis to identify product opportunities and discover product insights.

- Supports prioritization process, plan, and communicates on the steps identified to deliver the product

• Impact on Business Results

- Understands and maximizes the value of data and how it fits in the overall strategy of the organization.

- Delivers analytics capabilities in line with data architecture vision, strategy, principles, and standards.

- Ensures on-time reporting.

- Ensures an accurate monitoring of finance performance through proper tools and KPIs.

- Ensures that all budget preparations (month, quarter, year) and all period closing reporting are executed and delivered on time.

• Process & Projects

- Financial planning and analysis process.

- Technology to support Financial Planning & Analysis (EPM tools, Tagetik, SAP, PowerBI).

- Agile frameworks and delivery models

Required Skills and Qualifications

- Knowledge of JIRA, ServiceNow, Asana, and relevant ticketing/agile management tools.

- Experience with CPG and working agile are desired.

- Experience working in a multicultural, remote team environment

• INNOVATION SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

- Business Partnering. Be a business translator Ability to assemble, analyze, and evaluate data and to be able to make appropriate and well-reasoned recommendations and decisions to the Business stakeholders and the Project/Development Teams, considering a regional approach for all clusters in the Americas and requirements aligned with global teams.

- Ability to rapidly understand business requirements, communicate business expectations to cross-functional development teams, document data findings that can be easily understood, structured, and detailed-oriented profile.

- Understand the financial planning, forecast, and management reporting processes.

- Knowledgeable about user experience and value journey.

- Experience with Agile frameworks and delivery models.

- Business sense when discussing demands with functions and technical knowledge when communicating with the squad.

- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle.

- Solid communication, influencing, and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with internal teams in a cross-cultural and cross-functional environment.

- Knowledge about user experience and value journey.

- Organized, focused, and able to thrive in a dynamic environment

Benefits

Namely, we dedicate ourselves to bringing health and nutrition to the largest number of people. And not just that; we want our mission to benefit people of all ages, in all social and cultural environments, and in all parts of the world.

Today we operate in more than 120 countries, where we act with synergy, offering a portfolio for all stages of life: dairy and plant-based products, waters, and specialized nutrition.

We value and promote diversity and consider People with Disabilities in all our opportunities.

Others

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