Finance Business Partner – Supports Services Europe

Our client is an international manufacturing company that produces high tech industrial equipment for a wide range of industries. By creating and designing transformational and customized products, our client has established themselves as a market leader by committing to continuous improvement and time-tested best practices.

Milan, Italy

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Manager

Overview: <p>The Finance Business Partner &ndash; Support Services role will be an integral part of the European Functional Support Finance Team.&nbsp; The successful candidate will analyze and conduct&nbsp;thorough finance reporting statistics and forecasting for annual spending across a broad range of departments such as Business Development, Compliance, HR, Finance and Legal.&nbsp; This position will also support other roles divided between Commercial Units and Growth Entities, and this individual will work on additional projects of high importance throughout Europe, and put in place systems and processes to help drive efficiency.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>The ultimate goal of this position is to a develop a strong financial model that will enable our client to create a more efficient process and allow for accountability and cost visibility in a centralized finance structure.&nbsp; It will also allow them to support their bussiness leaders and stakeholders to enhance and represent operational excellence.</p> <div> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <p><strong><em>Title:</em></strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Finance Business Partner &ndash; Supports Services Europe &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong><em>Location:</em></strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stockholm, Sweden or Zurich, Switzerland</strong></p> <div> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p>
Responsibilities: <p><strong><em>Key Responsibilities</em></strong></p> <p>Develop and implement cost center planning from beginning to end, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, cost visibility and provide cost center owners with timely financial information. Use deep cost knowledge to prepare accurate short and medium term forecasts; outlooks and estimates.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Will perform data analysis, understand trends, identify unusual expenses, anticipate gaps and raise recommendations to meet corporate/internal stretches. Summarize variances and develop and execute contra-measures.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Work with analysts across functions to build lean and standard planning models to drive better visibility and accuracy on the planning process, connect recent trends with base cost background and deliver solid estimates</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Drive cost visibility and accountability through Monthly/Quarterly meaningful analysis by country, region and growth center for the entire support functions spending in Europe</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Drive performance and costs optimization for the support functions; identify, communicate risks and opportunities and make financial recommendations to functional leaders in order to support smart cost management and operational excellence.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Solid financial partner of the functional leaders on costs management and strategic initiatives. Provide Cost Benefits and other ad-hoc analysis to support business decision making, aligned with organization goals.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Provide support to the Functional Support Director on the design and implementation of a new centralized cost center management structure: determine cost centers by function, country, GC&rsquo;s, specific and share in order to ensure accuracy and consistency across the region for both planning and actuals tracking.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Contribute to develop guidelines/policies and best practices and ensure proper adherence across all the European business entities</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Support closing process for assigned cost area to ensure consistency, accuracy and completeness of financial reporting: promptly analyze preliminary actuals figures on real &ndash;time basis, review accruals/re-classes to ensure accuracy of monthly/quarterly financials, communicate and drive any correction required.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Discuss unusual variances with the functional owners and update the &ldquo;unusual&rdquo; tracking template.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Contribute to develop timely and standard KPI&rsquo;s and cost management metrics to analyze business performance and provide visibility to key stakeholders.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Manage FP&amp;A consolidation and overseeing of the HQ entity</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Execute process migrations and transition to the new created delivery model.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Identify, lead and execute process improvements and automation opportunities to continuously improve tools and outputs. Support projects, simplification/standardization initiatives that will facilitate and increase capacity for value added financial analysis.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Develop/manage an internal data base for the European support function headcount and own headcount reporting and cost related queries for commercial and growth centers units, share and specific teams.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Reports To:</em></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Functional Finance Director - Europe</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
Requirements: <p><strong><em>Qualifications and Skills</em></strong></p> <p>Strong financial analyst background</p> <p>Creative and open mindset</p> <p>Ambitious</p> <p>Structured, detail oriented</p> <p>Ability to interact and present at all levels</p> <p>Experience in Finance Project Management</p> <p>Building Acumen and Business Partnership</p> <p>Mindset of Continuous Improvement</p> <p>Ability to influence</p> <p>Accountability driven</p> <p>Vision to collaborate across boundaries</p> <p>Risk Management Intelligence</p> <p>Demonstrated Leadership Ability</p> <p>Strong communication skills at all levels, open communicator</p> <p>High values, ethics and standards</p> <p>Ability to speak Fluent English</p> <p>Advanced skill in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint</p> <p><strong><em>Education and Experience</em></strong></p> <p>Bachelor&rsquo;s Degree in related field</p> <p>5+ years of proven experience in FP&amp;A in a centralized/shared service cost management setting</p> <p>Hyperion Financial Management software and planning - required</p>