Senior Financial Analyst

You’re out to reimagine and reinvent what’s possible—in your career as well as the world around you. So are we. We love taking on tough challenges, disrupting the status quo, and creating what’s next. We’re in search of talented people who are inspired by big challenges, driven to lead and grow, and dedicated to making a meaningful difference.

Join us in the Managed Print Services Organization (MPS) Finance Account Management (FAM) team in Latin America, where you will provide financial analysis to a set of strategic accounts to the company to ensure their profitability and success. You will have the opportunity to support and forecast ensuring profitability throughout the contract's life and gaining invaluable insights by interacting directly with the business.

Your responsibilities will include assisting the business on a monthly basis with actuals analysis, forecasts, and narratives. You will handle Month-End-Close activities for the accounts assigned and act as a team lead for a group of talented financial analyst to ensure compliance and improvement in all processes.

We are looking for someone with unique mastery and recognized authority on financial analysis and account advisory demonstrating deep knowledge on Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet Management. Contributing to the development of innovative principles and ideas and providing highly innovative solutions; providing mentoring and guidance to lower-level employees and developing methods, techniques, and criteria for achieving objectives. This person will act as a functional manager within area of expertise but will not manage other employees as a primary job function.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provides the most complex financial analysis for the Managed Print Services Organization in Latin America, typically exercising a unique understanding of the business to determine the best method for achieving objectives.
- Consults with the Workforce Services and Solutions (WSS) and Global Services and Solutions (GSS) business leaders to guide and influence long
- term and strategic decision-making within the broadest scope.
- Provides monthly forecast to a set of high profile / strategic customer accounts ensuring that risks are covered, and the account remains profitable throughout the life of the overall contract, interacting first-hand with the business.
- Leads a group of analysts across multiple areas within finance to ensure goals are achieved and group projects are materialized.
- Drives process improvement and policy development initiatives that could lead to a positive impact to the MPS Finance LATAM team and ensures that all processes are consistent with the compliance controls.
- Represents the team during cross-regional or cross
- functional planning as well as during Asset Impairment Reviews and other MOC meetings.
- Provides mentoring and guidance to analysts.

**Education and Experience Required**:

- First level university degree with a focus in finance or accounting is required. An advanced degree or accounting certification (e.g., CPA, MBA) is strongly preferred.
- Typically, 10+ years of experience as a financial analyst. Experience supporting a services business unit or company is strongly desired.
- Typically experienced in a variety of finance functions.

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- Excellent understanding of accounting principles and financial analysis.
- Deep P&L knowledge, specific to the MPS business - all components, Hardware, Supplies, Services, Software - business models.
- General Balance Sheet Knowledge & Technical Accounting. Can identify issues on B/S and design a plan to solve them.
- Strongly preferred to have general Leasing knowledge. Should be capable of understanding how leasing variances impact account profitability.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, feeling comfortable presenting to high level executives and answering questions.
- Good influencing skills to drive business decisions.
- Superior teamwork and leadership skills.
- Excellent business acumen.
- Excellent project management skills.

This role will provide the opportunity to understand one of the most complex and engaging businesses inside HP. The closeness and partnership with the business will allow the analysts in the team to better understand MPS operating model, print portfolio and business practices.