Location: Wayne,NJ, USA
With a passion for life
Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers - and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.
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Job Overview
The Finance Manager, Business Controller serves as the financial liaison to the R&D, Selling and Admin areas in the Cardiac Assist (CA) business. The position is responsible for driving the financial performance of the business by understanding and communicating business drivers and operational challenges with the business leaders, and participating in strategy setting, providing financial guidance, and driving accountability. The position should focus on productivity initiatives to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and add value, and is also responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and reporting. The role works closely with the Cardiac Assist CFO and the rest of the CA business team. The position reports to the CFO Cardiac Assist and is based in Wayne, NJ, with approximately 3 days a week at the manufacturing site offices and has limited international travel.
Job Responsibilities and Essential Duties
* Foster a performance-oriented mindset within the organization.
* Perform Business Controlling activities that meet the organizations business objectives and are conducted in accordance with regulations and accounting principles.
* Drive improvement in business partnering, efficiency, timeliness, data availability and business performance transparency, leveraging metrics and goals/objective setting to drive performance.
* Work closely with Financial Controlling team to ensure efficient information transfer so that financial numbers can be completed accurately and timely.
* Closely manage the R&D and remediation budgets and partner with R&D leaders to track variances, ensure effective use of resources, and to understand deviation drivers.
* Manage/Lead the rolling forecasting process ensuring accuracy, consistency, visibility and understanding of key cost drivers, while achieving lean cost reductions.
* Lead regular meetings with management team members to discuss progress and performance and to fully understand, analyze and interpret the financial data to be able to translate into business insights and actions.
* Implement, monitor and present metrics, KPI's, etc. that will allow business to track progress against performance targets in OPEX (Selling, Admin and R&D areas).
* Ensure monthly OPEX Reporting to Cardiac Assist CFO
* Prepare regular and periodic ad-hoc analyses that provide substantive and actionable financial data for senior management.
* This is not an inclusive list of job responsibilities.
Minimum Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
* MBA is preferred.
* A minimum of seven years of experience in Finance or Accounting field.
* Strong knowledge and experience in R&D project cost allocation and tracking.
* Solid finance background and extensive knowledge of relevant financial systems
* Strong working knowledge of SAP R3, MS Office applications is required (Word/Excel), Adaptive and Cognos (is a plus)
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
* Demonstrated ability to drive results and initiate solutions with a high focus on understanding and meeting customer requirements
* Effective communicator that can influence a matrix organization at varying leadership levels.
* Strong business acumen and the ability to think forward, with agility, adaptability, flexibility, and the ability to optimize business processes.
* Strong abilities demonstrating a collaborative and proactive approach, an entrepreneurial behavior, and a commitment to continuous learning.
* Comfortable with change and continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify opportunities for improvement
* Ability to hold management team responsible for actions, commitment, etc.
* Effective time management and proven ability to meet deadlines
* Ability to quickly grasp, understand and feel for the business at a high-level perspective but also in detail.
The base salary for the position is a minimum of $112,000 and a maximum of $145,000, plus annual bonus of 15%
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About us
With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.
Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.