Job Description
Imagine yourself…
· Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
· Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
· Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.
At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.
As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.
Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.
More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us
We offer:
At Hach Colombia, we are committed to creating an environment where our associates can thrive both professionally and personally. Our value proposition is designed to support flexibility, well-being, and continuous growth:
Flexible and hybrid work model
We offer a hybrid scheme with flexible working hours, enabling a balance between collaboration, productivity, and personal priorities.
Work-life balance
Associates benefit from additional time off beyond statutory requirements, including floating days, personal leave for important life events, and early-finish Fridays.
Health & wellbeing
We provide a complementary health plan with company subsidy, as well as additional coverage and support during medical leave to help ensure income continuity.
Learning & development
We invest in our people through educational assistance programs for language learning, undergraduate, and postgraduate studies aligned with development plans.
Recognition & milestones
We celebrate both personal and professional achievements, including academic accomplishments and family milestones.
About the role
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, the FP&A Analyst, Planning, Cost & Cash Performance plays a critical role in supporting enterprise planning, forecasting, and below‑gross‑margin performance. This role provides primary FP&A ownership for planning processes, cost and cash performance, and scenario-based decision support—helping finance leadership understand risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities while improving forecast discipline and visibility.
This position is part of the Finance / FP&A department located in Bogota, Colombia, and will be remote
In this role, a typical day will look like:
· Supporting monthly rolling forecasts, quarterly outlooks, and core planning processes for assigned business areas
· Owning forecast files, planning models, assumptions tracking, and risks‑and‑opportunities logs
· Analyzing OPEX, SG&A, headcount, and key cash and working‑capital drivers, including inventory, AR, AP, and other balance‑sheet items
· Preparing variance analysis versus plan, forecast, and prior year for cost, cash, and below‑gross‑margin performance
· Building and maintaining scenario models, sensitivity analyses, and decision‑support tools for finance leadership
· Partnering with functional finance and regional stakeholders to validate assumptions and improve forecast accuracy and discipline
· Reconciling intercompany sales, margins, and costs between legal entities
· Supporting ad hoc analyses tied to productivity, spending, headcount, cash conversion, and enterprise performance priorities
· Conducting price‑mix analysis and performing customer‑ and product‑level analytics to support commercial and business decision‑making
Planning cycle ownership
Close / Week 1 focus
· Support close‑week reviews of opex, headcount, spend, and balance‑sheet sanity checks
· Update and consolidate forecast files and core planning assumptions
· Maintain risks‑and‑opportunities views and support scenario updates
· Complete internal segment reviews and finalize cost, cash, and R&O materials by Day 4
· Support segment deliverables and leadership reviews by Day 5
Mid‑month focus
· Rolling forecast coordination and quarterly outlook preparation
· Scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis
· Cost, headcount, and productivity improvement analysis
· Working capital and cash conversion initiatives
The essential requirements of the job include:
· Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field
· 4 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, cost finance, or a closely related role
· Demonstrated experience supporting planning, forecasting, or outlook processes
· Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modeling, including scenario and sensitivity analysis
· Experience analyzing cost, headcount, and cash or working‑capital drivers
Success in this role is measured by:
· Timely, accurate forecast and outlook delivery
· Clear insight into cost, headcount, cash, and working‑capital performance drivers
· Improved visibility to forecast risks and scenario outcomes
· Reduced cycle‑time duplication through clear ownership of planning and cost / cash processes
About Hach
Hach is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods.
When you join Veralto’s global network of 17,000 associates, you join a culture where purpose meets possibility—where the work you do has an everyday impact and where you’ll have opportunities to deepen your skillset, grow your career, and safeguard the world’s most vital resources™.
At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
Unsolicited Assistance
We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.