Financial Analyst

Location: Mexico City

Summary Description: 

The Financial Analyst is responsible for revenue recognition, monthly and quarterly financial analysis, monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual plan development, management review support, and other general financial planning. On a day-to-day basis, this support includes providing information, analysis and recommendations that allow the sales/service management to manage the business more efficiently and effectively, while growing revenue and improving profitability. 

Responsibilities:

• Collecting, preparing, analyzing, and presenting financial data, highlighting operating results for use in month-end close, planning, reporting and monthly outlook processes. 
• Working closely with operating management and finance colleagues to analyze actuals and develop financial outlooks
• Reviewing outlook against results for validation of achievability and potential risks
• Helping finance leaders to provide the business with timely, relevant, and actionable financial and operational reporting and forecasting
• Partnering with all parties within Finance and Accounting to ensure a clean monthly/quarterly close process
• Reviewing historical results to determine future trends
• Working effectively in both team and self-directed environments
• Having excellent organizational skills, being detail-oriented and comfortable working with large amounts of data and at a granular level
• Identifying and implementing process improvements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or other related business discipline
• 1 – 3  years of relevant Finance experience
• Demonstrated financial/analytical skills gained through formal education or work experience
• Working knowledge of financial planning and analysis
• Knowledge of Hyperion / Essbase
• High proficiency with Excel
• Experience with Salesforce is a plus, but not required
• Proficient in other Microsoft Applications (Word, PowerPoint, PowerBI)
• Ability to work under pressure with challenging due dates
• Self-motivated and willing to learn