Fp&a Analyst

**Your new company**
Financial services company with full international presence recruits FP&A Analyst (M/F) for its Porto team.

**Your new role**
This position is a member of the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team with focus on the Centralised support functions (Finance, Product, Legal, HR, Marketing, CEO office) as well as local support functions. The nature of the role includes:
i. analysing and understanding Actual performance;
ii. business partner with Central Function owners and their teams on matters involving efficiencies and business opportunities;
iii. support the forecasting and Budget processes; the incumbent will build trusted relationships with stakeholders and provide financial information for decision making in a timely manner.

Main duties and responsibilities
- Partner with Accounting to understand Actual performance and manage closing process for the support functions:

- Analyse the monthly Actuals performance and assist function owners and VP FP&A to understand performance, including variance analyses versus Budget and Prior Years;
- Manage and maintain the budgeting process for the support functions in collaboration with the FP&A team; this includes maintaining and further developing the various Budget modelling tools.
- Business partnering with Central Function owners and their teams to provide them with relevant financial information in a timely manner to support the decision making of which (list not exhaustive):

- Understand the current cost structure and footprint of each function and challenge the status-quo;
- Understand current processes and flows within Central Functions to be able to challenge and recommend improvements;
- Perform internal cost benchmark analysis and propose course of actions.
- Ensure the various processes in place are SOX compliant.
- Support the VP Financial Planning and Analysis and CFO on a number of initiatives linked with Centralised Functions.

**What you'll need to succeed**

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Preferable skills and competencies:

- Good command of Excel skills with the ability to handle data in an efficient way, able to identify key business performance drivers and model them via KPIs;
- Understanding of accounting principles and the dynamics between P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow;
- Analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets as well as having an “helicopter view”;
- Experience in reporting development and knowledge of Oracle Hyperion, Smartview, ESSBase would be a plus;
- Fluent in spoken and written English; English is the company and office language;
- Self-motivation with a “can-do” and problem-solving attitude;
- Able to build and maintain relationships and influence at every level;
- Good communication and presentation skills in multinational and multicultural environment;
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team;
- Prioritisation skills to organise time intense workloads and ability to multitask.

You will have the opportunity to develop your career in an international environment and as a part of a new project.

Education and qualifications:

- International Professional finance qualification will be a plus.

**Experience**:

- Ideally 1 to 2 years of experience in similar role (Business Controller/Business Analyst/FP&A/Management Control) and overall, up to 3 years of successful experience in finance within the Blue Chip / FMCG / Big 4 industries with commercial exposure would be a plus (previous experience in accounting is an asset).

**What the company can offer you**
You will have the opportunity to develop your career in an international environment and part of a new project.

**Next step