Financial Analyst

Main Purpose:

The FP&A Analyst supports the FP&A Controller in delivering financial planning, reporting, and analysis for the fluvial liquid business. The role is responsible for owning recurrent reports, maintaining financial models, and ensuring data accuracy.

This is not a back-office accounting role. The expectation is for someone who is analytically curious, deadline-achieving, and capable of translating financial data into clear, actionable insights for management decisions.

Key Responsibilities: Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Reporting & Analysis

• Identify, investigate and clearly articulate trends and deviations from budget/forecast and flagging risks early
• Manage the monthly performance reporting process for the entity, including
  • KPI, margin and fixed cost analysis,
  • Working capital analysis
  • Capex reporting
  • Validating and uploading statistics into Oracle FCCS
  • Preparation of monthly reporting pack including commentary translating financial data into clear and actionable business insight
• Work with Group SSC Accounting team with the monthly financial close process
• Perform ad-hoc analyses dedicated to cost control and performance monitoring

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Assist the controller to prepare the 5-year plan in coordination with local management team by challenging and validating inputs to ensure that the 5-year plan is realistic and well-supported
• Assist the controller to present the 5-year plan outputs to senior stakeholders in a clear and structured manner
• Upload the 5-year plan and related statistics into Oracle FCCS for Group consolidation
• Prepare and maintain quarterly forecasts, incorporating the latest business assumptions and commercial developments
• Maintain and develop financial models to support budgeting and forecasting processes

Capex Reporting

• Prepare monthly capex reporting packs, tracking approved projects against budget, forecast and actual spend
• Preparation business cases for capex projects to be submitted to the Group Capex Committee for approval

Local support and collaboration

• Support the local management team with financial decision-making, acting as a trusted business partner
• Cost controlling: Work with local management teams to review, evaluate and understand the terminals fixed costs, trends and commitments ensuring that these costs are correctly booked by the SSC Accounting team
• Co-ordinate with the operations teams to ensure that monthly invoicing is completed on time
• Support SSC Accounting teams with annual audit process

Compliance & Administrative Tasks

• Maintain agreements data base

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting-Finance, Business Administration, Economics or similar.
• At least 3-5 years’ experience in the financial, controlling and accounting field.
• Exposure to a multinational environment, mid to large companies, preferably in energy, industrial, or logistic sectors.
• Knowledge of ERPs and financial reporting systems (Navision, Dynamics 365, SAP, Hyperion, Essbase or equivalent).
• Experience with business performance analysis, cost control and Capex.
• Advanced Excel and Power BI skills.
• Knowledge of IFRS (Preferable)
• English Fluent
• Experience with Budget / Forecast process
• Project financial analysis and monitoring

Key Relationships:

Internal: Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Commercial, HR, local managers and end users. FP&A Controller, LATAM FP&A Manager, MVD SSC team AP, AR, Accounting.

External: N/A