Financial Analyst - Latam South

Overview

This role supports financial planning and analysis with a focus on internal expense management and relationships with bottling partners. Responsibilities include monitoring budget performance, tracking direct marketing expenses, supporting expense classification accuracy, and producing ad hoc reporting and forecasts.

Responsibilities

• Provide analytical support to business teams regarding Customer and Channel pricing performance against agreed-upon contractual commitments.
• Track Direct Marketing Expenses (DME) and marketing spend for assigned region and bottler(s) in SAP, ensuring marketing support is applied to the correct budget.
• Support quarterly DME reclassification.
• Assist commercial and finance teams to correctly assign commercial expenses; reclassify as appropriate.
• Assist with auditing quantities and amounts in copacker invoices presented by the bottlers.
• Assist in negotiating sales price to bottlers through value chain analysis.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to develop commercial and financial performance forecasts, projections, and annual budget plans.
• Reconcile financial matters including accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) invoices matching with payment.
• Perform monthly and quarterly detailed analysis of financial statements to explain variances against prior years and budgets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field of study.
• 1–3 years of experience in progressive financial and accounting roles.
• 1–3 years of experience with accounting principles, financial concepts, and data analysis.
• Strong experience with SAP or similar ERP financial software.
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong understanding of GAAP and accounting transactions.
• Advanced English language skills preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description.