Full-Time LATAM HR Planning Leader

Job Purpose: The LATAM HR Planning and Controlling Leader is crucial for optimizing financial planning related to the workforce and ensuring cost-efficient HR operations in Latin America. This role provides detailed financial analysis, workforce forecasting, expense control, and workforce analytics to support leaders in making decisions aligned with strategic goals, profitability targets, and SGS' high-performance culture.
Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Expense Control:
• Lead monthly and annual forecasts of labor costs, aligning them with financial plans.
• Analyze differences in personnel expenses versus budget, identifying key causes and trends.
• Collaborate with HR and Finance teams to optimize labor expenses, ensuring high return on investment in human capital.
• Create detailed models for staff expansion scenarios, salary increases, and restructuring programs.
• Develop precise labor budget models with HR and Finance, ensuring effective planning of bonuses and salary adjustments.

1. Cost Reduction and Labor Efficiency Programs:
• Identify cost-saving opportunities related to personnel, optimizing expenses without impacting performance.
• Work with Finance and HR CoP to evaluate administrative expenses (SG&A) of personnel and propose efficiency improvements.
• Implement comparative analyses to assess SGS' labor costs against industry standards.

1. Effective Labor Planning Models:
• Design data-driven labor planning methodologies, aligning talent supply with business needs.
• Collaborate with LATAM HR CoP (Talent Management, Total Compensation, and Labor Planning) to define strategic frameworks for personnel planning.
• Create short- and long-term workforce forecasting models, ensuring optimal resource allocation.
• Provide key information about the workforce to support talent acquisition, expansion, and retention strategies.

1. Personnel Reporting and Monitoring:
• Monitor and report personnel trends, including FTE tracking, turnover, and productivity metrics.
• Provide periodic dashboards and reports on personnel for HR and business leaders, facilitating proactive decisions.
• Ensure that shared HR services and outsourced payroll (ADP) models align with labor planning objectives.

1. HR Budget and Administrative Expense Allocation (SG&A):
• Support Finance teams in LATAM with budgeting and forecasting, ensuring accurate and profitable HR budgets.
• Monitor administrative allocations, ensuring accurate application of charges across all business units.
• Review and validate invoice re-billing processes, accruals, surcharges, and bonus reconciliations.

1. HR Control in SGS Renew and Restructuring Programs:
• Act as a guardian of LATAM HR for SGS Renew, ensuring that restructuring programs generate the expected financial benefits.
• Perform periodic analysis comparing personnel and FTE, ensuring that cost reductions improve financial results.
• Track labor transformation programs in real-time, ensuring organizational objectives are met.
• Analyze restructuring programs to identify cost efficiencies, productivity improvements, and talent reassignment opportunities.
• Support LATAM leaders with clear data for restructuring decisions.

1. HR Governance, Compliance, and Risk Management:
• Implement internal controls to validate financial transactions related to HR.
• Ensure that payroll reconciliations, bonus payments, and benefit costs meet SGS' financial requirements.
• Support Finance and Legal teams in HR audits and regulatory issues.

Job Requirements:

• More than 7 years of experience in HR control, FP&A, labor planning, or financial analysis.
• Experience in workforce forecasting, labor cost analysis, and budgeting in multinational organizations.
• Expert in financial modeling, monitoring of administrative expenses (SG&A), and HR analytics.
• Strong knowledge of Power BI, SAP, Workday, or similar HR/Financial systems.
• Previous experience in Shared Services (GBS) is desirable.
• High attention to detail, structured processes, and effective financial risk management.

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