FP&A Manager (SA) - São José dos Campos/SP

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Position Overview: Lead the strategic and operational financial planning for South America, ensuring consistency, alignment with global objectives, and support for executive decision-making. Responsible for coordinating budgets, forecasts, performance analyses, and management of South America's financial KPIs.

Key Responsibilities:
•    Manage the development, motivation, goal setting, retention, and performance of team members, aiming to maximize both individual and team performance, while identifying opportunities within Ball’s career and succession planning.
•    Lead the full financial planning cycle (annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and mid- to long-term plans) for South American countries, ensuring accuracy and critical analysis of the information provided by the team.
•    Coordinate result projections, balance sheet, and cash flow activities for South America.
•    Consolidate and analyze regional financial data, ensuring consistency with global policies and compliance with local regulations.
•    Provide strategic support to the FP&A Director and other business leaders by translating financial data into insights and recommendations.
•    Coordinate and develop local FP&A teams, ensuring process integration and standardization of models and tools.
•    Ensure timely and accurate completion of financial analyses and reports requested by global and regional teams (BPSA).
•    Develop variance analyses (actual vs. budget vs. forecast), identify risks and opportunities, and propose corrective actions.
•    Support pricing, profitability, CAPEX, strategic projects, and operational efficiency processes in partnership with business units.
•    Drive continuous improvements in processes, report automation, and the use of analytical tools (BI, ERP, etc.).
•    Support and validate return analysis for investment projects.

Main Requirements & Skills:

• Completed Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or related fields.
• MBA or Postgraduate studies in Finance, Strategy, or Controllership is a plus.
• Advanced or Fluent English.
• Experience in FP&A, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Experience in multicultural or multinational operations, with a focus on South America, is a plus.
• Strong background in financial planning, modeling, performance analysis, and executive leadership support.
• Advanced Spanish (desirable due to regional scope).

Skills:

• Strategic mindset and business vision
• Leadership and influence in multicultural environments
• Strong analytical skills and results-oriented
• Sense of urgency, organization, and resilience
• Clear and effective communication with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong focus on continuous improvement

Technical Knowledge:

• Solid knowledge in budgeting, strategic planning, and financial control
• Strong understanding of financial indicators, financial math, and project evaluation (Payback, NPV, IRR)
• Solid knowledge in corporate finance and financial modeling skills
• Knowledge in accounting and tax regulations
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience with SAP (ERP)
• HFM knowledge is desirable

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.

Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

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