About this role
Descritivo da vaga - recrutamento externo
Purpose of the role
This role is a strategic Finance partner to the largest business in South America, shaping business performance and enabling value-creating decisions. The role provides a forward-looking perspective on performance, translating financial and operational drivers into actionable insights, challenging business assumptions, and identifying risks, opportunities, and strategic trade-offs.
Through robust planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, and performance management, the role enables the leadership team to anticipate outcomes, optimize resource allocation, and make informed decisions that strengthen profitability, cash generation, and sustainable growth.
Key Responsibilities
Business Performance & Value Creation
- Own the financial performance narrative for the business, connecting results versus plan, forecast, and prior year to the underlying commercial, operational, and market drivers.
- Translate performance into business insights, assessing profitability and margin across products and assets, and highlighting the implications for business performance and value creation.
- Anticipate risks and opportunities, quantify their potential P&L and cash impact, and partner with the business to drive mitigation or value-capture actions through execution.
- Challenge performance and strategic choices with an independent financial perspective, ensuring the leadership team understands the key trade-offs and implications of decisions.
- Partner with R2R and Controllership to ensure financial results are accurate, timely, and fit for decision-making, resolving accounting, close, and data-quality matters that may impact business performance.
Planning, Forecasting & Scenarios
- Lead the Budget, Forecast, and Five-Year Plan cycles for the business, ensuring alignment with business strategy, Global FP&A requirements, and corporate timelines.
- Drive forward-looking scenario analysis around the variables that materially influence performance, including margins, volume, FX, manufacturing cost, SG&A, etc.
- Challenge the assumptions under the plan and forecast, moving beyond consolidation to ensure they reflect market dynamics, operational realities, strategic priorities, and credible execution plans.
- Improve forecast quality and decision relevance by focusing leadership attention on the key drivers and assumptions that determine future performance and align with actual results.
Strategic Decision Support
- Support the financial evaluation of strategic initiatives, business cases, and Capex proposals, assessing returns, sensitivities, risks, strategic rationale, and the assumptions underpinning value creation.
- Support new business transactions, including assessment of commercial rationale, integration into the business plan, synergy assumptions, value creation opportunities, and performance tracking.
- Provide decision-ready analysis to the leadership team, translating complex financial and business considerations into clear recommendations, scenarios, and actionable choices.
Required Qualifications
- Degree in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in FP&A, Business Finance, Controlling, or a comparable analytical Finance role, including experience supporting a business leadership team directly.
- Track record leading processes with multicultural and multifunctional teams in order to deliver process improvements and value creation results to the business.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Comfortable with Power BI and ERP data (JDE preferred).
- Fluent Portuguese and English. Spanish is a real advantage.
- Experience in agribusiness, commodities, trading, or another industry with volatile margins and physical operations.
- Familiarity with US GAAP and with the reporting rhythm of a global company.