FP&A Lead, Chile

Edgewell Personal Care; Santiago; On-site; CLP 25,000,000 - 40,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Edgewell Personal Care seeks an FP&A Lead for Chile to partner with country leadership, driving planning, forecasting, and financial performance across sales, costs, and investments.

This role combines strong financial acumen with business understanding, translating data into clear recommendations and supporting regional profitability initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting.
• 5–7 years FP&A experience.
• Experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG / FMCG) or fast-moving commercial environments.
• Strong knowledge of financial statements, analysis and financial planning.
• Exposure to commercial finance, including sales, pricing, trade spending, and customer profitability.
• Internal reporting experience.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with business partners.
• Advanced IT tools: Excel and Hyperion Planning.
• Advanced English, written and spoken.
• Ability to adapt to changing business conditions.
• Continuous improvement mindset with process improvements.
• Excellent interpersonal relationships.
• Self-motivation and autonomy.
• Critical thinking.
• Result-oriented mindset.
• Strong financial and strategic thinking.
• High autonomy and self-sufficiency.
• Excellent analytical skills linking numbers to decisions.
• Strong communication skills, influencing without authority.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Curiosity about business performance beyond numbers.

Responsibilities

• Act as strategic finance partner to country leadership and commercial teams.
• Ensure planning, forecasting, and reporting rigor and transparency.
• Translate complex financial data into actionable insights for decision-making.
• Uphold financial discipline in commercial and investment decisions.
• Drive understanding of business drivers behind financial performance.
• Support a culture of accountability and data-driven decisions.
• Financial Planning, Forecasting & Close.
• Lead country financial planning processes, including Annual Budget, Forecasts, and Rolling Forecasts.
• Support and coordinate the monthly financial close, ensuring alignment between accounting results and FP&A analysis.
• Review and analyze financial statements prepared by accounting.
• Analyze variances versus plan, forecast, and prior year, explaining root causes.
• Ensure accuracy, quality, and timeliness of financial submissions.
• Business Performance & Analytical Insight.
• Analyze financial performance across sales, products, customers, and channels.
• Identify patterns, trends, and drivers.
• Provide deep-dive analysis into revenue, margin, costs, and profitability.
• Support preparation and presentation of Business Reviews.
• Commercial, Trade & Investment Support.
• Review and approve the financial rationale behind sales investments.
• Evaluate trade marketing plans and customer investments.
• Analyze product cost structure (COGS) and margins impact.
• Ensure pricing, promotions, and trade decisions are supported by analysis (ROI).
• Project & Investment Evaluation. Lead financial evaluation of new projects and opportunities.
• Assess viability, risks and ROI; provide recommendations.
• Act as financial control point for resource discipline.
• Reporting & Corporate Interaction. Prepare corporate reporting and collaborate with regional/corporate finance.
• Respond to ad-hoc financial requests from leadership.

Skills

Financial planning

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial reporting

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder collaboration

Advanced Excel

Hyperion Planning

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

Tools

Excel

Hyperion Planning

ERP systems

Job description

Edgewell is a global team of over 6,000 visionaries, doers and makers. Our secret is people, and we have an inspiring and collaborative global force of them. Our portfolio of over 25 brands touches lives in more than 50 countries by making useful things joyful. Together, we reimagine good mornings and endless summers, strive for more sustainable ways to beautify and bond, and do it all with not only confidence but determination.

POSITION SUMMARY

The FP&A Lead - Chile is responsible for leading country-level financial planning and analysis, acting as the primary finance partner for the business. Given that Colombia represents 46% of the region, with high regional exposure and ownership of the P&L, this role carries significant strategic weight.

It functions as the financial steward of the country, ensuring financial discipline, strategic insight, and decision support across sales, expenses, investments, and profitability.

The position combines strong financial acumen with a strategic business mindset, supporting leadership through analysis of financial results, evaluation of commercial and trade investments, and assessment of new business opportunities. The FP&A Lead plays a critical role in explaining financial outcomes, identifying trends and patterns in business, and ensuring alignment between financial results and business strategy. This is an individual contributor role.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Act as a strategic finance business partner to country leadership and commercial teams.

2. Ensure financial rigor, transparency, and consistency in planning, forecasting, and reporting.

3. Translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for decision-making.

4. Uphold financial discipline in commercial and investment decisions.

5. Drive a strong understanding of business drivers behind financial performance.

6. Support a culture of accountability, data-driven decisions, and long-term value creation.

7. Financial Planning, Forecasting & Close

a. Lead the country financial planning processes, including Annual Budget, Forecasts, and Rolling Forecasts.

b. Support and coordinate the monthly financial close, ensuring alignment between accounting results and FP&A analysis.

c. Review and analyze financial statements prepared by accounting.

d. Analyze variances versus plan, forecast, and prior year, clearly explaining root causes and business drivers.

e. Ensure accuracy, quality, and timeliness of financial submissions.

1. Business Performance & Analytical Insight

a. Analyze financial performance across sales, products, customers, and channels.

b. Identify patterns, trends, and underlying drivers that explain business results.

c. Provide deep-dive analysis into revenue, margin, costs, and profitability.

d. Support preparation and presentation of Business Reviews for local leadership and corporate stakeholders.

1. Commercial, Trade & Investment Support

a. Review and approve the financial rationale behind sales-related investments.

b. Evaluate and financially validate trade marketing plans and customer investments.

c. Analyze product cost structure (COGS) and its impact on margins.

d. Ensure pricing, promotions, and trade decisions are supported by robust financial analysis (ROI, payback, profitability).

1. Project & Investment Evaluation

a. Lead financial evaluation of new projects, initiatives, and business opportunities.

b. Assess financial viability, risks, and return of investments.

c. Provide clear financial recommendations to support go / no-go decisions.

d. Act as a financial control point to ensure disciplined use of resources.

1. Reporting & Corporate Interaction

a. Prepare and deliver corporate reporting, ensuring compliance with regional and global finance requirements.

b. Collaborate closely with regional and corporate finance teams.

c. Respond to ad-hoc financial analysis requests from leadership and corporate.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economic, Industrial Engineer.

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience specifically in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A).

• Experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG / FMCG) or fast-moving commercial environments.

• Strong knowledge in financial statements, analysis and financial planning.

• Strong exposure to commercial finance, including sales, pricing, trade spending, and customer profitability.

• Internal Reporting experience.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with business partners

• Very good level of IT tool management (Advanced Excel, HPL Hyperion Planning, Enterprise, ...)

• Advanced English required (written and verbal), with ability to interact with corporate and regional stakeholders.

• Ability to handle on-going changes in business.

• Continuous improvement mindset with demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements to eliminate non-value-added work.

• Excellent interpersonal relationships.

• Commitment to service with both internal and external customers

• High self-motivations skills

• Critical Thinking

• Result-orient

• Strong financial and strategic thinking skills.

• High level of autonomy and self-sufficiency.

• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to connect numbers to business decisions.

• Strong communication skills, capable of influencing without authority.

• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, and commercially driven environment.

• Curiosity and deep interest in understanding business performance beyond the numbers.

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