**Controlling & Planning Analyst**:**
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In this position, you will aid the organization by compiling and analyzing metrics for performance versus budgets and forecasts, while identifying trends and problems, communicating information to relevant groups, and recommending actions to improve financial performance.
Reporting to the Controlling & Planning Team Lead, you will benchmark KPIs with peers and work with management to understand and analyze the drivers of financial performance and to identify trends.
**This position reports to**:
Controlling & Planning Team Lead
**Your responsibilities**:
- Preparing financial modelling for various "what if" scenarios and the overall impact on the organization.
- Assisting in the preparation of financial reporting, business planning, budgeting and forecasting.
- Validating the accuracy of financial data, business information and reports by performing reconciliations and reviews of exceptions.
- Providing information to management by assembling and summarizing data, preparing reports, and making presentations.
- Optimizing performance to increase productivity by developing automated solutions, eliminating duplications, and coordinating information requirements.
- Performing controls within your area as designed, while maintaining a proper audit trail and documentation for future audits and reviews.
**Your background**:
- 3 years of experience in controlling areas working with finances.
- Sound knowledge of general accounting, financial statements, cash flow, inventories, reconciliations and previous experience working in a Share Service model.
- Knowledge in reconciliations, account analysis, gross margin, reporting, policies.
- Advanced Excel.
- A collaborative, solution-focused approach and strong written and spoken communication skills.
- A Bachelor´s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related.
- Intermediate English
- Intermediate Portuguese (desirable)
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