FP&A Senior Analyst (Alajuela, Costa Rica)

About the role

Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living. The FP&A Centre of Excellence (COE) exists to deliver quality insights and performance management that help Smith & Nephew deliver the Life Unlimited purpose to our stakeholders. The Centre of Excellence was created as a world-class, integrated FP&A organization. We act as one awesome, collaborative team proud to partner with the business and run efficient processes with effective tools. Within the COE, the US Orthopedics Senior Analyst , is responsible for providing high-quality decision support and insight to the finance and business leadership of Smith & Nephew's US Orthopedics business. The position works primarily with the US commercial team as a business support partner, with a dotted reporting line to the Senior Director / Finance Business Partner. Day to day your role covers accountability for core FP&A activities, built on the foundations of delivering the annual budget, forecasts and appraisal cycles. Ensuring the completeness, accuracy of the ledger is obviously a critical foundation of any finance role and will require your oversight to ensure transactions are appropriate. Outside the direct team, the role must work closely across FP&A, Controllers & GBS to ensure end-to-end finance delivery to the management. Success in this role will require leveraging technology, a bias to establishing robust and documented processes, and the resilience to work through standard processes, which are maintained within the team. You will be expected to contribute to the continuous improvement of processes. You will also have a dotted line to your key business finance stakeholders and must ensure seamless delivery in a matrix organization. You will role model genuine collaboration, enterprise-first thinking and a learning mindset - this is how you need and want to work every day. Flexibility will be required to balance and adjust priorities across shorter- and longer-term delivery requirements. This position is a P3 level What will you be doing? Core: Finance Business Partner to the business unit Finance Director, liaising and advising accordingly, specifically setting the strategic direction of the function as well as ensuring underlying reporting processes are robust and accurate. Design and produce insightful reports that facilitate decision-making and highlight opportunities and risks. Perform in-depth analysis to provide insight, identify and quantify opportunities or understand risks. Understand sales and pricing trends in the markets, and support the business on tender preparation and return on investment analysis Provide ad-hoc assistance with Cluster and Regional projects as required. Deliver financial support to various local functions within the Business unit. Contributing and executing the budgeting and forecasting processes for your US business unit. Working with the business unit LT to deliver all short- and long-term financial targets. Monitoring and assessing progress against the financial targets established in annual budgets and strategic plans. Through close collaboration with the Product Managers/Marketing Directors, provide robust and accurate commercial financial inputs/reporting for a several hundred million dollar US business Ensure variances to forecast are thoroughly explained and opportunities and risks are identified. Prepare/Submit journals during month-end process as needed. Working with finance business partners to ensure rigorous, "joined-up" financial analysis behind all key decisions and projects and quality and consistency in the financial analysis presented to the management team. Processes, Standardization & Controls Act as a thought partner in the team to define and leverage industry best practices in the way Smith + Nephew delivers the FP&A processes, especially in the functions. Get the basics right - lead and do the necessary improvement of data quality and content of reports/analysis in support of the business. To succeed in this team, you need to contribute to and actively promote a continuous improvement agenda that creates great processes for you and your team. If you want just to deliver the status quo, this is not the team for you. Digitalization - drive efficiency and insight through the adoption and implementation of digital spanning visualization, processing and analysis tools. Comply with information management practices - ensure confidential information is safeguarded. Ensure operation/execution of any key /non-key controls, including SOX controls, in your areas of accountability. What will you need to be successful? Education: Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline. Fluent English (C1) both written and spoken. Experience: At least 3 years of experience in FP&A with full ownership of P&L planning, forecasting, and analysis. Experience in supporting senior business leadership teams within an organizat