Fp&a Specialist

**About Us**

Merama’s mission is **to become the best and largest online group of brands in Latin America**. Our business model consists on acquiring consumer goods brands across Latin America and accelerate growth on e-commerce and marketplaces together with the leading merchants. We're a young company with more than 20 brands and 300 people around LATAM (with focus on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Chile) and USA with different nationalities. Merama ran 2 investment rounds, and before completing the first year of operations, Merama became a Unicorn Company.

**Why would you love working at Merama?**

We are a company committed to our people, we strongly believe in giving the best customer experience, not only for our external clients but our internal clients too, we care about them and their wellbeing. Also, we are an inclusive company where everybody can feel safe and heard.

We are a fast-paced environment moved by collaboration and data-driven mindset that encourages everyone to participate, to create and build our future together.

Merama is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We don’t make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy.

**If you want to learn more about Merama please visit**:Website** **| **Instagram** |** **LinkedIn**

**About the team**:
**Our Team**: The FP&A team is responsible for the overall financial planning and analysis in Merama. We lead the budgeting and forecasting process, analyze the performance and provide insightful information that helps the company take the best decisions. We work closely with stakeholders across the business to identify opportunities and mitigate risks, helping to deliver our financial targets while meeting business process and governance requirements.

**About the role**:
**Role for You**: You are passionate about producing financial analysis that enables breakthrough decisions. You are comfortable with the detail but is also able to connect it to the big picture and communicate the story behind the numbers. You work as a Business Controller that drives processes, ensures compliance and create value.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Financial modelling and reporting, leading P&L, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet Forecast
- Partner with Accounting team to deliver the monthly closing process
- Provide necessary analytics to highlight key business performance drivers; Identifying risks and opportunities throughout the quarter and help develop processes to mitigate risks while capitalizing on opportunities
- Consolidate and prepare management reporting and communicate results to global product team
- Support the leadership team with insights and analysis to deliver operational and cash flow targets, driving profitable growth
- Monitor and implement compliance with controls and systems
- Develop best practices and streamline rituals and routines.

**We are looking for someone who has:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in FP&A
- Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills; ability to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses
- Expert in Excel and Financial modeling
- Advanced/Fluent English.
- Ability to work with teams across functions
- Ability to execute across multiple priorities independently & decisively
- Ability to adjust to varying priorities in a dynamic environment, work under pressure, and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
- High Energy, self-starter, extremely organized and discipline.

**Desirable qualifications**:

- Strong process management skills
- Strong verbal and written communication capabilities
- Experience with BI