The role involves financial reporting, forecasting, strategic planning, and business partnering to drive profitability and optimize financial insights across the APJ commercial team.
Work Schedule
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Position Summary:
Clinical Diagnostic Division (CDD) Commercial Finance Manager will be the finance business partner across the commercial function, leading on finance support, identifying improvement options and recommendations as well as challenging the business dynamics where appropriate. This role is pivotal in driving improved financial insights across the APJ commercial team thus enabling better business decisions and ultimately improving revenue and margin expansion
Responsibilities:
Financial Reporting & Forecasting
- Build the annual revenue, bookings and operating expense Annual Operating Plan (AOP) alongside the commercial teams ensuring accountability is appropriately assigned and all parties are engaged
- Support the five-year strategic planning (STRAP) process for CDD and SDG
- Lead SDG APJ financial consolidation and act as the primary liaison between countries and Group, driving planning, forecasting, and performance management in alignment with regional and global priorities.
- Serve as a strategic finance partner to CDD commercial leader and APJ SDG Sr. Director, delivering insights and guidance to support planning, forecasting, and performance management
- Forecasting – Owns the monthly forecasting process, ensuring accountability and accuracy, including defined risks and opportunities
- Support the weekly revenue Pulse check and review cadences, providing the leaders with meaningful insights
- Work on other ad hoc tasks as required like deal margin analysis etc
Business Partnering & Analysis:
- Develop strong business partner relationships resulting in improved insights and results
- Proactive and timely communication of insightful commercial performance information on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to drive successful achievement of the monthly and quarterly target expectations.
- Provides robust insights into variances through volume, price, product mix and product margin analysis, translate findings and drive practical solutions.
- Collaborate with teams on new business tenders & pricing quotes, and existing business re-quotes, using business experience to question the approach & make proposals to ensure optimum pricing & margins to align with the strategic goals
- Drive improved commercial process controls, especially pricing.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- Professional accounting qualification and /or Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Business Administration
- 10-12 years' experience in business/commercial finance
- Strong communication skills
- Strong analytical skills, ability to present business proposals concisely to senior audiences.
- Experience with matrixed organization and geographically dispersed teams
- Establishes and maintains successful customer relationships (internal and/or external)
- Take ownership of results
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