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Finance & Accounting - Finance & Accounting
At Prudential, we believe talent is key to achieving our vision. When you join Prudential, you'll unlock a motivating and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions!
PFI's focus on Emerging Markets provide an opportunity to create a diversified, fast growing Life and Retirement portfolio of companies that complements PFI's market leading Japan business by focusing in Latin America, high growth markets in Asia and key markets in Africa. The Emerging Markets Region has an aspiration to become a meaningful value contributor to PFI in the near- and long-term horizon, focusing on strong organic growth and building key capabilities in addition to inorganic growth opportunities.
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The Emerging Markets Regional finance team reports through the International CFO and provides financial and strategic support partnering with the regional business leaders and country operations across 12 markets - Latam: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Peru; Asia: China, Indonesia, India; and Africa - Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.
The Regional Finance team is responsible for financial planning and analysis functions, business development, management reporting, capital, and strategic planning across Emerging Markets.
The current employee work arrangement for this position is Hybrid and requires your on-site presence on a reoccurring basis as determined by your business. Your manager will provide additional details relative to the specific number of days you are expected to be on-site.
Team responsibilities include:
- Financial management oversight to the region including business drivers, capital management, and financial planning & analysis
- Partnering with country and regional business leaders on strategic initiatives including distribution channels, new lines of business, product strategy, competitive analysis
- Providing strategic input and advice to the country CFOs on decisions regarding capital structure, product design, profitability metrics, and talent management
- Assist financial workstreams for M&A activity and other strategic initiatives within the region
- Continuing to build Global Finance Community by fostering collaboration, identifying training and mobility opportunities, and sharing best practices across geographies
- Advisor to the countries on PII / Corporate governance and effectively partner with Newark and Regional teams.
- Team is co-located in the US and Singapore.
Main responsibilities include:
- Analyze trends in the international businesses (pension and insurance markets), specifically in Latin America, and produce detailed insightful analytics, from proprietary and public information, for senior management, highlighting key changes and actionable insights.
- Lead the strategic and financial business planning for the Latin America operations, including business forecast and insightful analysis, including quarterly business reviews with country and regional leadership.
- Proactively identify opportunities to optimize processes and develop innovative approaches to assess the health of the businesses in each region.
- Lead / support the diligence and assessment of opportunities across the region from a strategic, capital, and profitability perspective. Ensure alignment between initiatives and financial planning for the region, including a framework for measuring and monitoring projects.
- Lead the process of producing major stakeholders' deliverables (including CFO, regional leaders), including portfolio level presentations for senior management
- Opportunity to influence in-country Finance local teams through partnering and ability to work in multi-functional projects
- Develop detailed budget and forecast models to drive high quality decision-making and closely monitor business performance
- Collaboration with key internal stakeholders including regional leadership, Actuarial, Portfolio Management, Tax, Treasurers, and other internal teams
- Turning data into meaningful insights and transformative solutions and move stakeholders to action with plans to execute our recommendations
- Continue to develop business narrative for region by proactively partnering with local finance teams to integrate strategic and financial outcomes - including enhanced analysis around capabilities investments (digital, wellness and product).
- Opportunity to support strategic initiatives and M&A, including due diligence and/or integration, development of investment thesis on potential growth opportunities, financial statement modeling, synergy analysis, business/corporate development strategies, etc.
What you'll need:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, data analytics, or economics preferred.
- MBA, CFA and/or CPA a plus
- 3 to 5 years of experience with a focus preferably on: Financial planning & analysis / insurance and retirement industries / emerging markets / capital management / corporate development and strategy / management consulting.
- Strong aptitude for proactive problem solving.
- Proven analytical capabilities, including the ability to develop deep insights and deliver resulting messages to leaders to inform decisions.
- Proficiency in project management, prioritization, and time management / ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to partner effectively with all levels including business unit senior management
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and priorities in a fast-paced environment and communicate issues in a clear, succinct manner to peers and senior executives
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, teamwork and collaboration skills
- Advanced Financial Modeling, Excel, and Power Point skills, Power BI skills
- Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese a plus
- Minimal travel expected
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What we offer you:
- Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave
- Retirement plans:
- 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)
- Company-funded pension plan
- Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs
- Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
- Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.
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Note: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $90,100.00 to $134,100.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.
Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.
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