Financial Analyst

**About the job**:

- The Red Hat Business Finance team is looking for a Financial Analyst to join us in Sao Paulo, Brazil, or any other country in Latin America (LATAM). In this role, you will help support the LATAM team, working closely with the Sales leaders. You’ll provide analytical input through reports and metrics within the territory, support and carry out operational aspects of the business, and navigate through different areas within the company to facilitate the entire process. In addition, you’ll be in charge of the region’s planning, forecast, follow-up, and strategic decision-making processes. As a Financial Analyst, you will maintain close relationships throughout Red Hat. You’ll need to have excellent analytical and communication skills as you will be responsible for taking the initiative and cross-functionally collaborating with our regional Operations, Finance, and IT teams.**What you will do**:

- Demonstrate insightful use of financial analysis techniques, tools, and concepts to provide practical counsel to business partners and management to achieve desired business results
- Understand and facilitate the integration of business processes, people, and relevant technology to identify, configure, and communicate useful information and to provide practical business leadership to support business decision making across various business functions
- Develop and refine key business metrics and perform robust analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities while evaluating possible alternatives and recommending appropriate actions
- Analyze financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions
- Support fiscal year planning for various business teams and assist in developing a financial-based justification for expenditures, additional investments, and expansion of new or existing business activities.
- Analyze global financial performance and other operational key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure optimal business decisions
- Provide financial models and dashboards with analysis on investment, expenses, capital expenditure, balance sheet, and headcount trends, including variances of actual-versus-budget and year-over-year
- Work with various business corporate functions on reviewing annual financial targets or goals, analysis, and measurement to meet expense management and ROI issues
- Develop an understanding of Red Hat’s global business model to identify financial trends and provide value-added analysis and benchmarks across the industry for various business functions
- Maintain knowledge of and stay up-to-date on developments in technology, business, finance, and economic theory

**What you will bring**:

- Bachelor’s degree in finance or a business-related major; MBA is a plus
- 10+ years of experience working in a business financial analysis role in software and technology companies
- Experience with business planning
- Solid initiative and ability to manage multiple projects
- Excellent communication skills
- Solid analytical and data organization and interpretation skills
- Financial modeling experience and understanding of financial statements
- Result-oriented with excellent critical problem-solving skills
- Comfortable presenting reports, insights, and plans for action to senior leadership
- Fluent language skills in English; advanced language skills in Spanish

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