Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Patients are at the heart of what we do at Edwards Lifesciences. Our Finance teams work hard to optimize our current and long-term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus. As part of the team, whether providing analysis, forecasting, or reporting financial information, your application of accurate financial business practices will play a fundamental role in how we impact the quality of life for patients all over the world.
The Finance Business Partner (FBP) for APAC will provide strategic financial leadership to the Business Unit across the Asia Pacific region. This role acts as a key advisor to BU leadership, driving business performance, ensuring financial discipline, and enabling informed decision‑making. The FBP will partner closely with Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Global Finance to support growth, profitability, and operational excellence in the region
How will you make an impact:
- Serve as the primary finance advisor to the APAC [BU] leadership team.
- Support development and execution of BU strategy including annual operation plans, mid‑term strategic planning, and market expansion initiatives.
- Challenge and influence key stakeholders with insights, scenarios, and recommendations.
- Translate financial insights into actionable business strategies
- Lead APAC BU budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning cycles.
- Provide detailed analysis on revenue, gross margins, OPEX, working capital, and profitability.
- Build financial models to evaluate pricing, promotions, investments, and new product launches.
- Ensure forecast accuracy and support corporate FP&A with variance explanations
- Track key KPIs for the BU and drive performance discussions with business leaders.
- Identify risks and opportunities, propose mitigation actions, and follow through on execution.
- Conduct monthly business reviews with senior leadership
- Ensure strong financial discipline aligned with corporate policies.
- Strengthen controls over revenue recognition, accruals, and capex approvals
- Work closely with global and regional finance teams to align regional results with corporate expectations.
- Collaborate with HR, Legal, and other functions on workforce planning, compliance, and operational improvements.
- Act as the voice of APAC BU finance in global projects, systems implementations, and process harmonization.
What you'll need (Required):
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics or related field
- 10+ years in finance experience, ideally with exposure to commercial finance, FP&A, or business partnering
- Strong business acumen about industry. Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives, and fluent in both written and verbal English
- Strong analytical skills; ability to interpret complex data and provide clear commendations.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders in a matrix environment.
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
What else we look for (Preferred):
CPA/ACCA/CMA preferred
Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
Understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
