Jobs in Brazil, São Paulo, São Paulo

Job Description

The CFO Group is currently searching for a Legal Entity Controller Specialist to join the Global Legal Entity Controllers team in Brazil. This job is responsible for performing financial reporting for one or more legal entities ensuring books and records are kept in accordance with US and local Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as well as supporting local regulatory reporting. Key responsibilities include performing activities for the month-end close process such as preparing, recording, reconciling, and reporting financial results in addition to financial regulatory reporting and financial statements preparation. Job expectations include reviewing, analyzing, and preparing statutory accounts and regulations and their calculations.

Responsibilities

• Engages in the month-end close process for US and local Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP);

• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual legal entity reporting and analysis to meet regulatory reporting requirements and requirements of the Executive Management Team and Board of Directors;

• Responsible for local financial reporting especially the Central Bank reports (CADOCs);

• Oversight of US regulatory reports of local legal entities;

• Supports income tax provisioning and preparation of tax returns;

• Preparation of audited financial statements, with engagement with all involved stakeholders;

• Ensures an appropriate internal control environment is established by overseeing it operates effectively within areas of responsibility and appropriately escalating issues as needed;

• Remains updated and aware of regulatory changes, continuously assesses and enhances regulatory reporting processes, and improves the quality of regulatory submissions;

• Partners with regulators, auditors, tax authorities, business units, and other internal teams, including Global Regulatory Reporting and Corporate Tax, with regards to local accounting and reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience in products related to Banking and Markets;

• Desired a 10+ years of experience in Accounting (or correlated area);

• Expert in BRGAAP (+Cosif) with solid knowledge in US GAAP / IFRS accounting skills, with active Local CPA (CRC);

• Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills to make sound and independent judgment and decisions under rapidly changing and often stressful environment;

• Highly motivated, pro-active, self-starter, multi-tasking and committed to getting the job done;

• Able to work under pressure and tight deadlines;

• Graduated with degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics and correlated areas;

• Fluency in English (written and spoken) – Spanish is desired;

• Strong ability in Excel, Oracle and SAP.

Skills

• Attention to Detail;

• Analytical Thinking;

• Financial Accounting and analysis;

• Continuous Improvement;

• Oral & Written Communications;

• Stakeholder Management;

• Process Management;

• Risk Management;

• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Lead Cross-Functional Integration: Serve as the primary driver and coordinator for cross-functional integration activities across core business units, including Sales, Engineering, Product, HR, Legal, and Go-to-Market (GTM), in addition to Finance.

• Integration Process Refinement: Support the ongoing development, standardization, and implementation of the comprehensive M&A integration playbook and best practices for the IMO.

• Execution Management: Drive integration workstreams and manage execution against the overall deal timeline, proactively identifying dependencies and connecting functional leads across the organization.

• Risk & Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify, analyze, and manage potential integration issues and risk areas, providing clear, concise escalation paths and mitigation strategies to senior leadership.

• Performance Tracking & Reporting: Track key integration metrics (KPIs) and post-acquisition performance, preparing regular, data-driven reports for presentation to the Corporate Development team and Executive Leadership.

• Change Management: Coordinate and execute change management activities across the acquired company and Palo Alto Networks functions to ensure successful adoption of new processes, systems, and organizational structures.

Your Experience

• 6-10 years of related professional experience with strong career progression, including direct experience managing or supporting full-cycle M&A integration activities at a public, high-growth technology company or a top-tier consulting firm.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field. An MBA or equivalent advanced experience is preferred.

• Cross-Functional Acumen: Proven capability to quickly grasp the big picture of a new business model while understanding the execution details across diverse functions (e.g., product roadmaps, sales cycles, HR policies).

• Financial Acumen: Understanding financial modeling, with background in software, SaaS, appliance, and/or other technology industry business models. Able to understand and translate financial models into operational plans.

• Systems Proficiency (Plus): Experience with enterprise financial and business intelligence systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday, Tableau, or other BI tools) is a plus.

• Leadership & Communication: Exceptional team player with highly effective written and verbal communication skills and high Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Must be comfortable working proactively and independently to build and drive action plans.

• Adaptability: Possess intellectual curiosity and the willingness and ability to adapt to the rapid business and organizational demands inherent in a high-volume M&A environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $158000 - $255000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Govern and control project and test delivery processes, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards;

• Track progress and prepare clear, accurate reports and dashboards for management;

• Define and monitor KPIs and performance metrics;

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align priorities and resolve issues;

• Support agile practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements:

• Solid experience in project/portfolio management and governance;

• Strong organizational and prioritization skills;

• Proficiency in English (written and spoken);

• Knowledge of agile methodologies and metric tracking;

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously;

• Proactive, detail-oriented, and results-driven;

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills;

• Comfortable in dynamic, fast-paced environments.

Skills:

• Attention to Detail;

• Project Governance and Control;

• Monitoring, Reporting, and Test Management;

• Process Performance Management;

• Adaptability;

• Critical Thinking;

• Stakeholder Communication;

• Data Management and Metrics Analysis;

• Policies, Procedures, and Compliance Management;

• Process Design and Continuous Improvement;

• Strategic Thinking;

• Agile Methodologies;

• Tool Proficiency (Jira, Octane).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Brazilian Cash Management products;

• Hands-on experience with Jira and Octane tools.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

In this role, you will be an integral part of a group of Software and ML engineers that continuously surveys petabytes of data to find risks online and protect some of the world's most important and relied upon organizations from malicious software and hackers. You will directly contribute to our mission by building AI/ML systems that increase the effectiveness of our security products, and you will directly work with stakeholders to define, design and implement improvements to our software.

Your Impact

• Prototype, build, and improve AI systems and ML models, including large language model (LLM) and generative AI applications, to automate and enhance team workflows

• Strengthen infrastructure for data ETL, model training and lifecycle, MLOps, batch and real-time processing, and inference

• Mentor and coach other ML engineers on developing, fine-tuning, and evaluating both traditional and generative AI models

• Work directly with security professionals who use your software and AI systems every day to help them be more effective and improve the quality of their work

• Develop feature engineering, data pipelines, and transformations to deliver reliable data for model training and LLM inference

• Measure and refine model performance through metrics-driven evaluations and continuous experimentation

• Deliver, monitor, and continually improve secure AI and ML systems in production, including LLM-powered tools and automation features

Your Experience

• Experience with Python including delivering production-quality code and debugging in a production environment

• Expertise in one or more of:

  • MLOps expertise (e.g. Feature Store, Model Serving, Model Monitoring)

  • Data Engineering expertise (e.g. Airflow, Apache Beam, Dataflow, SQL)

  • Designing and building applications powered by LLMs and generative AI (for example: retrieval-augmented generation, intelligent search, entity linking, summarization, conversational interfaces, automated reasoning, and code understanding)

  • Applying modern AI techniques including LLMs, embeddings, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering, using frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI API, and PyTorch

• Experience operating ML systems in production environments

• Conceptual thinking and creativity; you demonstrate an ability to consider various techniques to solve different modeling problems we face

• Ability to collaborate and to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $157,200 - $254,100/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or account management at a Business-to-Business (B2B) software company.
• Leadership experience, such as people management, team lead, mentorship, or coaching.
• Ability to communicate in English and Portuguese fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

• Experience managing and leading a team.
• Experience working with, and managing, cross-functional internal teams (e.g., Business Development, Customer Engineers, Partner Sales) and external partners in complex implementation projects and negotiations.
• Experience working with Startups or Digital Native organizations, understanding their unique challenges and aligning technology solutions to drive high value business outcomes.
• Ability to manage business and commercial models while leading organizational transformations and delivering on results.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, online media environment, or marketing roles, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience working with advertisers, agencies, or clients.

• 2 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• 2 years of experience in a leadership role without direct reports or 1 year of experience in a people management or team leader role.
• Experience in advertising sales/marketing and sales management, with established relationships and presence within the Telco, Technology, Finance, Media Marketplace, or Creative Agencies.

• Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  
• 3 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree.
• Ability to communicate in English and Portuguese fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

• 5 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree.
• 4 years of experience analyzing data and creating reports with statistical, quantitative modeling, and forecasting skills.
• 3 years of experience in an applied research setting.
• Experience with Python, R, or other scripting languages.
• Experience in survey research.
• Knowledge of statistics, and proficiency in one or more statistical software packages (e.g., R, SPSS, Stata, SAS).