Financial Consultant-Surgical

Financial Consultant-Surgical

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in accounting or finance required
• Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8+ years prior relevant experience
• CPA/MBA preferred
• Broad finance background that includes: financial planning and analysis, accounting, finance, internal management reporting systems, budgeting, acquisition and investment analysis and financial modeling
• Previous experience with a global manufacturing company preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation and analysis of the Annual Operating Plan, Forecasting cycles and Strategic Plans, including analysis of competitors (benchmarking), procedural data and other relevant market drivers
• Ensure Forecast Accuracy and drive accountability within the Commercial organization
• Prepare supporting financial analysis to drive the performance of the business and execute on the strategic & tactical business decisions, providing advice and counsel focusing on trends for key financial statement line items
• Liaise with Global OU Finance leads to ensure strategy, New Product launches and forecasts are aligned with Global OU strategy and expectations
• Explain variances between actual results versus prior year; versus AOP / forecast and market trends, and make recommendations for future actions
• Compile and review Latest Best Estimates (LBE) for respective areas of responsibility, taking into consideration actual business performance, previous and estimated expenditures
• Lead the preparation of all monthly, quarterly, and full year financial analysis, dashboards and reports, incl. daily sales, expense & headcount reporting as well as graphs and charts to turn large amounts of data into value-added information to drive business performance
• Lead in understanding co-relationship between Traced Sales to Reported Sales
• Partnership with region sales leaders to drive quarterly results
• Actively champion IBP process and reinforce IBP cultural changes within the business
• Support continuous improvement projects across finance and business
• Champion collaboration across Business Finance and play a leading role in the US Surgical Finance team development

Preferred Qualifications

• Enables strategic direction for the Business with the ability to balance business needs with relevant financial control objectives
• Solid understanding of accounting
• Knowledge of Hyperion systems, SAP, E-one and global consolidations
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills and financial modeling skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
• Independent, Action oriented and ‘hands on’ team player
• High energy and a proven track record of influencing accountability as well as attaining organizational and personal objectives
• Track record of implementing Operational Excellence
• The ability to manage diversity, solve problems and make decisions
• The ability to collaborate across complex matrix organization