Position Summary
The VSSM FP&A Manager is responsible for leading the financial consolidation and performance analysis of the Front-End business across South America, supporting decision-making through high-quality reporting, profitability analysis, inventory management, and cross-functional business partnership. This role acts as a key link between Sales, Marketing, Sales Operations, and Finance, ensuring timely insights on business performance, risks, opportunities and actions to improve regional results.
Key Responsibilities
- Consolidate Front-End actual results, forecasts and key performance indicators across South America, ensuring accuracy, consistency and timely management visibility.
- Lead regional financial performance reporting and variance analysis, including volume, mix, net price and other commercial drivers that support month closing and forecast reviews.
- Prepare executive-level analyses and presentations for month closing, forecast cycles and business reviews.
- Lead the preparation and consolidation of PLPs (profitability by product), coordinating inputs across Finance and partner areas and ensuring a clear profitability view by vehicle/model.
- Consolidate, monitor and analyze FGI (Finished Goods Inventory) for the region, including inventory forecast, model-level views, reconciliations and risks/opportunities.
- Support the DSB (Demand and Supply Balance) process by providing financial insights, scenario analysis and business recommendations to improve decision-making.
- Ensure strong financial governance over reports, databases, deliverables and planning assumptions used in management discussions.
- Drive continuous improvement in reporting processes, data quality, automation and analytical tools.
- Transformational leadership: ability to lead people and business through change, combining strategic vision, influence, talent development, and data-driven decision making to deliver sustainable impact.
Required Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Engineering or related field.
· Strong experience in FP&A, business planning, financial consolidation and management reporting.
· Solid knowledge of P&L analysis, forecasting, profitability and inventory management.
· Experience working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic business environment.
· Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
· Fluent English, Spanish proficiency preferred
· Strong business partner mindset, with high ownership and accountability.
