Mgr, Finance Rci Latam

**Position Summary**:
This Manager role is responsible for the management and oversight of the Brand’s financial performance in the LATAM region aimed at driving long-term profitable growth The role will have a direct reporting line to the International FD and a close dotted line to the AVP of the LATAM region It will have specific oversight of all LATAM RCI acquisition costs including Brazil (Commissions SG&A etc) ensuring costs of sale and overhead remain controlled and reporting is timely and accurate They will proactively benchmark against other markets/ sister brands/ competitors with the aim of driving best practice & improvements in business results Investments will be appraised for effectiveness and whether they influenced travel partner behaviour In addition they will be a true partner to the commercial business operations and play a vital role in the development of the region’s strategies

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Role portfolio: Guests 200k NTR $170M SG&A $14M; Commissions $18M**:
**1 Monthly close process**:
Oversee the monthly close for RCI across the LATAM region covering all aspects of commission and SG&A costs
- including the reporting of all issues to the International FD
- Report on sailed revenue performance and other key performance metrics on a monthly basis

**2 Planning & Forecasting**:

- Manage the RCI annual operating plan process for the region for both sailed revenue and expenditure (operating & capital) Manage the quarterly and monthly forecast process for the region
Deliver a high level of forecast accuracy
- Prepare presentations for the annual plan and quarterly forecasts in review meetings with senior management
- Identification and quantification of risks and opportunities in all forecast/ plans
- Manage the capital acquisition request process to properly justify the benefits of capital expenditures while facilitating the approval process

**3 Routine Internal Reporting**:
Responsible for the preparation of:

- Monthly management reporting on ship & market performance
- Responsible for facilitating the monthly pre-close variance analysis review Ad hoc reports
as requested

Establish proper/ periodic communication protocol between LATAM Finance and corporate functions to ensure timely dissemination of accounting and forecast information (policy changes reporting requirements S&M or G&A program changes etc)

**4 Channel and Commissions structures**

Evaluates the overall business model integrating all Channels (Trade
- CO and Direct)
- Partners with the RCI commercial/ sales team to develop and review all commission proposals
- Partners with central International Marketing team to understand investment decisions and ROI on these investments
- Provide regular analysis on the commission expenditure / channel performance and profitability

**5 Contract & vendor selection**

Partners with budget owners to review vendor selection proposals/ bids
- Oversee the Finance review of all contracts

**6 Capital Investment Projects**
- Responsible for assisting business managers with preparation of cost and benefits justification for capital investment projects including IRR and NPV calculations
- Responsible for analysing capital projects for reasonableness
- Responsible for facilitating the approval process for capital projects in a timely manner
- Responsible for post project review of capital investments to ensure forecast benefits have been achieved

**7 Management of staff**
- Responsible for management of one member of staff based in our Mexico office Develop the LATAM Finance team addressing any performance
development and workload optimisation

**9 Other**

Assist International Finance Director Brand Finance VP and other senior management in ad hoc projects eg
- Strategic Planning
- Market Development & supporting non-traditional opportunities
- **Performs other duties as required**

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position
- Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management

**Financial Responsibilities (For management roles only)**
- Responsible for monitoring & driving improvements in LATAM revenue - $170M
- Responsible for control & optimisation of LATAM investment - SG&A $14M; Commissions $18M

**Key Relationships**:

- RCI LATAM Sales & Commercial teams (based in Mexico & Miami)
- International Finance & RCI Brand Finance
- International Marketing
- Brazil shared service team Other shared service teams including Accounting Legal
HR etc
- In-house Conduent team (who outsourced call centre)

**Qualifications**:
Minimum level of education and experience required to perform the work include:

- Bachelor’s degree in finance or related function Minimum 3 years’ experience in a commercial environment in an analytical/ FP&A role
- **Fluent English**:

- Prior management experience preferred
- Travel ind