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RTR, Senior Analyst

Brand: Estée Lauder Companies

Description

About t he Estée Lauder Companies!

ELC (Estee Lauder Companies) is a global leader in prestige beauty that delights consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. They are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25 brands sold in 150 countries. Infused throughout their organization is a passion for creativity and innovation; a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected.

From a position of strength, The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), the leader in prestige beauty products, embarked on the Leading Beauty Forward program, chartered to fuel product innovation and enhance market agility. A key element of this strategy was the design of a new way to support its suite of 30 brands globally. The company chose Panama as being best suited to establish its new Global Business Services (GBS) operation center. This new center will initially deliver Finance, Human Resources and Legal services to ELC employees across several geographies and time zones. Through a new innovative service minded approach, this center will redefine service standards globally at ELC. This new GBS team will provide a one-stop-shop solution for the ELC businesses, supported by new customer engagement insights, new systems, and new reporting. In addition to delivering exceptional service to the ELC businesses each day, the GBS team will also be responsible for continuously streamlining work in pursuit of growing its service offering in support of achieving ELC’s strategic and business objectives. New site, new team, new opportunity.

Position Overview

This role is critical in providing financial support for the North American Record to Report (RTR) team, responsible for the execution of closing processes, financial reporting, and ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrating a ‘customer first’ attitude, the individual will partner with other functional areas to ensure the accurate and timely delivery of financial services. This includes the oversight of a Third-Party Provider in the completion of deliverables supporting several North American Corporate Accounting departments. The candidate will need to demonstrate a strong financial skillset in order to analyze complex business transactions and understand their impact on end financial statements.

Qualifications

Responsibilities:

• Support delivery of financial services, in the execution of RTR processes, providing guidance and assistance for day-to-day financial closing and reporting activities

• Ability to perform root cause analysis and recognize potential commercial reasons for outstanding issues

• Creation and Maintenance of Process Documentation

• Perform quality review processes on the balance sheet reconciliations and follow up action plans.

• Provide insights to the stakeholders regarding performance, operations & other initiatives.

• Support Process Transformation, working with various stakeholders to facilitate end-to-end process review and assessments, identifying opportunities to drive increased harmonization and standardization across brands, departments, and processes

• Foster an environment of integrity, monitoring adherence to applicable SOX and Operational controls, facilitating risk assessments & audit control testing

• Engage in and suggest continuous process improvement ideas

• Ensure that all activities are performed in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

Additional Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance/Administration preferred

• Minimum Years of Experience: 4 years

• Working knowledge in SAP and Microsoft D365

• Blackline tool knowledge – Reconciliations Module (Desirable)

• Fully bilingual in English and Spanish

Additional Details

• Work shift : Monday to Friday – Business hours.

• Contract-type: Full-Time Permanent.

• Location: Costa del Este, Panamá.

Job: Finance & Accounting

Primary Location: Latin America-PA-8-Panamá

Job Type: Standard

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: 1st (Day) Shift

Travel: No

Job Number: 247937