BPA Manager - South Cone

Alcon Chile is looking to hire a Manager -Business Planning and Analysis (BPA) to join our finance team in South Cone Cluster (Chile, Argentina & Uruguay). The BPA Manager is instrumental in providing analytical, operational & strategic support for the financial performance of the assigned business scope. She/he is responsible for the management and coordination of the company’s budgeting and forecasting process, the analysis and review of consolidated financial data and for driving a strong discipline on financial management and investment decisions within the business.

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Manage planning process with high degree of accuracy: Budget and Forecasting. Proactively advice on early warnings/opportunities to supported finance and business teams.
• Execute month-end process, demonstrating business understanding, curiosity, and conveying explanations and actions in an effective manner.
• Ensure accountability to established objectives through tracking of actual results and highlight root cause events of variances.
• Analyze financial results, filter, and synthesize issues, communicate key messages to supported finance and business teams to allow adoption of corrective actions, as necessary.
• Directly contribute to the achievement of Alcon financial objectives (Sales, Profit and Cash Flow) through financial analysis to support operational decision-making for the franchises in scope.
• Identify, prioritize, and lead process improvements to drive value creation.
• Participate in ad-hoc projects and ad hoc analysis as a finance representative.
• Disciplined use of financial systems (ASPIRE, APMR, SAP, etc.) to manage and perform analytical analysis of financial results.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related analytical discipline.
• At least 3-5 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) roles.
• Exceptional analytical abilities, capable of using data tools to drive decision-making and managing large pools of data in Excel.
• Demonstrates complex problem resolution proficiency and the ability to identify/implement process enhancements.
• Proactive communication style with the ability to build/foster relationships with business partners.
• Proven leadership, analytical, influencing, and problem-solving skills combined with the ability to identify risks and impacts and possible solutions and corrective actions.
• Excellent written and verbal English skills, along with quantitative, interpersonal, and analytical skills.

HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:

• Enjoy the freedom to innovate and drive process improvements.
• Enjoy challenging work that impacts our business and patients directly, fostering both personal and professional growth.
• Be part of a diverse and supporting team that values your contributions and encourages innovation & collaboration.

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