CONTROLLING FINANCIAL ANALYST - Military veterans preferred

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DHL Express is hiring a Controlling Finance Analyst to join its Shared Service Center, Heredia, Costa Rica team. Reporting directly to the Controlling Manager, provides support for controlling activities and Business Case Analysis and maintains alignment with internal and external Business Partners with focus on: transparency and consistency on financial status and high quality reporting, clear view on positive or negative developments of financial performance, Identification of optimization potential. Investment projects follow up. Additional tasks and accountabilities include but are not limited to:

• Supports and performs the Financial Planning Analysis and Reporting of the Financial Operations for the controlling environment of the Americas Financial Services and its support areas in other countries.
• Establishes and maintains budgeting systems and procedures and monitors actual performance against budget.
• Identifies performance issues and makes recommendations to management for remedial actions.
• Adheres and applies guidelines and controls through Activity Based Cost Accounting concepts and Best Practices.
• Ensures all reports and disclosures comply with applicable governmental regulations, professional standards, and organizational policies.
• Maintains periodic alignment between Budget/Forecast/Actual data and works closely with local management to provide and ensure high quality of the analyses in regular reporting and variance explanations. Responsible for maintaining cost center structure.
• Assists in the development and measurement of annual budget and business planning process including the identification of trends and the development of measures to ensure budgets are followed.
• Develops and modifies financial systems and corporate models related to budgets, forecasts, and capital expenditures.
• Develops and modifies financial reports for executive management including Monthly Management Reports and Weekly Scorecard.
• Supports the other areas within SJO-BUE CPC team (Controlling, Performance management & Internal Controls).