Financial accounting & planning sr. specialist

Location: Asuncion, Paraguay. Working Pattern: Hybrid 2/3 days per week.

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’ve transformed our business and are building our future on one clear purpose—to deliver a smoke-free future. With huge change comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Mission and team:

Join our Business Planning team and help accelerate our smoke-free future by transforming complex business and financial data into actionable insights that drive sustainable growth and informed decision-making. You will partner with Commercial, Marketing, and Finance leaders to shape business strategy, optimize performance, and identify new opportunities in a dynamic environment.

Impact You’ll Own

Master the complexity of our business and understand its financial implications. Analyze, consolidate and interpret the developments in today’s business. Model business evolution under different strategies to support management decisions and conduct ad-hoc analyses. Support assessing business’ performance as well as other internal and external factors impacting profitability to identify volume, SoM and revenue growth opportunities. Centralize the long-term planning process and meld the input of multiple stakeholders ensuring continuous growth of the business. Regularly monitor company’s performance and present information of volume, SOM and financial results and trends. Participate in cross-functional projects.

What You’ll Do

• Analyze & present strategies to increase profitability, providing support and data analytics for decision making purposes.
• Provide advice to improve performance (Volume & SOM) and support other functions by providing finance perspective to the business.
• Comply with actual forecast reporting requirements, including system inputs, business highlights and press release coordination and reporting.
• Business Performance analysis and advisory: Monitor and follow up business evolution, volume and financial trends.
• Analyze industry trends, SOM evolution, competitors’ activities, being able to structure and present data showing meaningful information for decision making processes.
• Business Partnering, providing support to Commercial and Marketing teams.
• Maintain good networking and communication with different areas being able to challenge, create value and give insights on potential opportunities/projects.
• Preparation of effective management presentations and reports to provide a clear and comprehensive view of the business.
• Revenue forecasting (RF and OB) preparation and analysis reviews to ensure consistency on data reported.
• Support Business Partner leaders with ad hoc requirements & check market trends.
• Support business users on finance tools guiding them on how to use it/who to contact and follow up on timely resolution.
• Participation and execution of long-term planning process and melding the input of multiple stakeholders ensuring continuous growth of the business.
• Identify areas/process to improve and automation, eliminating inefficiencies and making them more agile.
• Actively guide and take ownership of proper solutions avoiding any disruption/impact on finance processes across the organization having always in mind our internal customer orientation.
• Execution and proper maintenance of Business Planning department principles & practices including SOX Controls.

Skills & Capabilities

MUST

An energetic, driven candidate with a college/university degree, preferably in Finance, Business Accounting, Administration, Economics or Industrial Engineering. A professional with minimum 5-8 years of experience in Finance Business Planning, gathering, analyzing and presenting data structured in an efficient way. Advance English level. Highly effective communication, influence and collaboration. Facilitate productive discussions, challenge resolution and decision taking A proactive organized person with strong analytical, attention to details, problem solving and communications skills, able to work in dynamic scenarios. Autonomy and independent person and flexible to work in a collaborative environment within the team. Certified (able to sign balance sheets in Asuncion's district).

PLUS

Experienced in MS Office (advanced Excel, PowerPoint) and SAP, Power BI is a plus.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us stronger. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to creating a workplace where every individual feels welcomed, respected, valued, and empowered to reach their full potential. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities and provide reasonable accommodation to ensure an accessible recruitment process. If you need support or adjustments during your application, let us know—we’re here to help you succeed.