Junior Financial Analyst

Location: SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA

At World Fuel, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.

We are seeking a Junior Financial Analyst to join the Aviation Finance team at World Fuel.

This role is designed for an analytical, curious, and technology-oriented professional who wants to build a career in finance while developing a strong understanding of the Aviation business. The analyst will support financial planning and analysis, forecasting, monthly reporting, performance management, and ad hoc analysis, working closely with Finance and business stakeholders. While a solid foundation in finance and analytical thinking is important, the ability and willingness to continuously learn, adapt, and embrace new technologies is essential to success in this role. Our tools, processes, and ways of working will continue to evolve, and we are looking for someone who is energized by that evolution.

Key Responsibilities

Support the Aviation segment's budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes.

Assist with monthly and quarterly financial performance analysis, including actuals versus budget, forecast, and prior periods.

Analyze key financial and operational drivers, including revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, margins, volumes, and working capital.

Look for opportunities to automate, simplify, and improve existing reporting and analytical processes.

Help identify and explain business performance trends, variances, risks, and opportunities.

Prepare recurring management reports, financial analyses, presentations, and decision-support materials.

Work with large datasets to extract, organize, validate, and analyze financial and operational information.

Support month-end and quarter-end processes, including financial reviews, reconciliations, and analysis as needed.

Partner with Finance colleagues and business stakeholders to improve the quality, accessibility, and usefulness of financial information.

Develop an understanding of the Aviation business, its commercial drivers, customers, products, markets, and financial performance.

Perform ad hoc financial and business analysis to support management decision-making.

Technology & Continuous Learning

Technology is an important part of how the Finance organization operates and will become increasingly important over time.

The successful candidate should be comfortable working with technology and enthusiastic about learning new tools. Experience with tools such as Snowflake, Tableau, Alteryx, advanced Excel, SQL, or similar analytics platforms is beneficial; however, we do not expect a junior analyst to already be an expert in all of them.

More important is the candidate's ability to

Learn new systems and analytical tools quickly.

Be comfortable experimenting with new technologies and ways of working.

Adapt as systems, processes, and business requirements change.

Use technology to solve business problems rather than simply produce reports.

Continuously look for more efficient ways to access, analyze, and communicate information.

Be comfortable operating in an environment where change and continuous improvement are expected.

The willingness to learn and continuously adapt is more important than mastery of any specific technology.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related finance or quantitative discipline.

0–3 years of relevant experience in Business Analytics, FP&A, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.

Experience with, or strong interest in learning, Snowflake, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, and other data and analytics technologies.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Solid understanding of core financial concepts and financial statements.

Strong Excel skills and comfort working with financial and operational data.

Ability to organize and analyze large amounts of information while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to explain analysis clearly and concisely.

Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver work in a dynamic environment.

Collaborative mindset and willingness to work across Finance and business teams.

What We Value

Beyond technical qualifications, we are looking for someone who demonstrates:

Curiosity: Wants to understand not only what happened, but why it happened.

Learning agility: Actively develops new skills and is willing to learn unfamiliar technologies.

Adaptability: Is comfortable with evolving priorities, processes, systems, and ways of working.

Ownership: Takes responsibility for the quality and accuracy of their work.

Technology mindset: Views technology as a tool for improving Finance rather than as something separate from Finance.

Continuous improvement: Challenges repetitive or inefficient processes and looks for better approaches.

Business orientation: Connects financial analysis with the underlying commercial and operational drivers.

Collaboration: Works effectively with colleagues across functions, geographies, and levels of the organization.

The Profile We Are Looking For

We are not necessarily looking for someone who already knows every tool we use today. We are looking for someone with a strong analytical foundation who is curious, adaptable, comfortable with technology, and genuinely motivated to keep learning.

The ideal candidate understands that the tools used in Finance will continue to change. Someone who knows Tableau, Snowflake, or Alteryx today is valuable, but someone who can learn