Financial Controls Manager

Atlas NextWave; Mexico; On-site; MXN 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas NextWave seeks a Senior Finance Planner to coordinate the Mexico Business Unit's planning, budgeting, forecasting, and LRP processes. You will align finance, assets, and corporate teams to deliver coherent plans and timely management reporting.

The role requires extensive upstream Oil & Gas finance experience, team leadership, and knowledge of Mexico production-sharing frameworks. You will drive risk assessments, KPIs, and data integrity across SAP and planning tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Professional accounting certification (CPA/ACCA/CIMA) preferred.
• MBA or postgraduate qualification is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Mexico Business Unit planning, budgeting, forecasting and Long-Range Plan (LRP).
• Ensure alignment across Finance, operated assets, and corporate teams.
• Monitor performance, analyze variances, and develop KPIs and dashboards.

Skills

Financial planning

Financial controls

Asset accounting

Team leadership

JV partner coordination

Auditors & regulators

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

CPA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

MBA or postgraduate qualification

Tools

SAP

Planning tools

Reporting systems

Job description

Responsible for coordinating Mexico Business Unit planning, budgeting, forecasting, and Long-Range Plan (LRP) processes, ensuring alignment across Finance, operated assets, and corporate teams. Oversees planning timelines, risk management cycles, partner coordination, and action tracking, ensuring consistency between operational plans, financial forecasts, risk assessments, and management reporting to support strategic decision-making.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

Professional accounting certification (CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) preferred.

An MBA or postgraduate qualification is an advantage.

Language:

Proficient in English, both written and spoken.

Extensive upstream Oil & Gas experience in finance, financial controls, asset accounting, or planning, including team leadership in multi-asset and multi-entity environments. Strong knowledge of Mexico's Production Sharing and License Contract frameworks is essential, along with experience engaging joint venture partners, auditors, regulators, and corporate reporting teams. Exposure to corporate finance, investment analysis, and M&A activities is an advantage.

Ensure compliance with HSES requirements, applicable legislation, company policies, ethics standards and financial regulations, promoting strong financial governance, effective internal controls and risk management.

Coordinate the Mexico Business Unit's annual business plan, budget, forecasts and Long-Range Plan (LRP), consolidating operational and financial inputs, assessing scenarios and preparing management reports and Corporate submissions.

Monitor performance against plans and forecasts, analyze variances, develop KPIs and dashboards, and provide financial insights to support investment evaluations and strategic business decisions.

Coordinate Business Unit and Corporate risk assessment cycles, maintain risk registers and mitigation plans, monitor emerging risks and corrective actions, and ensure alignment with Corporate requirements.

Coordinate financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting for operated assets, ensuring effective communication with joint venture partners and alignment between partner decisions and internal business plans.

Ensure data accuracy, consistency and integrity across SAP, planning tools and reporting systems, while promoting process standardization, simplification and automation.

Build effective relationships across Finance, Corporate Planning, operational teams, asset management and joint venture partners, facilitating collaboration and delivering clear, decision-oriented information to senior management.