Responsibilities
1. Business Partnering: The role actively contributes to growing the Service business profitably.
Owns the performance management process from strategic priorities setting, to budgeting, forecasting, variance and trend analysis. Drives long term strategic planning, assessing business potential and transformation. Delivers strong financial support on strategic ad-hoc studies (partnership, business case, investment scenarios). Key focus on KPI’s, deep dive into business drivers, provide guidance, challenge plans, offer solutions, and ensure full buy-in of senior management. Ensures effective communication and understanding of the financial & business performance and drive accordingly the decision-making process (corrective plans).
2. Finance Excellence: work closely with the EMEA Accounting team on the Monthly and Quarterly Close, as well as ensuring a robust control and compliance environment is in place across all countries. Work closely with EMEA HQ team on regular reporting and analysis.
3. Finance Transformation: support regional and global efforts to harmonize processes and procedures, implement new tools, including RPA and other automation tools.
4. Leadership: participate as a member of the EMEA Finance Leadership team, actively engaging to drive harmonization of processes, and to help build an organization that successfully partners with the business in helping to meet our strategic objectives.
Qualifications
Education:
5. Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
6. MBA or professional level Accounting qualification preferred.
Experience:
7. Proven substantial working in a commercial Finance role in a large organization, ideally in Life Sciences, or an Industrial or FMCG environment.
8. Experience partnering with commercial organizations, with a deep understanding of the priorities, levers and dependencies of those teams.
9. Past experience in a fast-paced environment, ability to adapt and deal with ambiguity.
10. Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, PowerPoint and other business software.
11. Experience of working within a diverse cultural setting.
Competencies:
12. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to partner with and present to senior executives.
13. Ability to work within a complex matrix structure.
14. Strong business, analytic and technical acumen.
We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.
We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.