Manager I, FP&A

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Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your role at Baxter

This position at Baxter will be part of a best-in-class Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization and acts as an extension of the Medical Products and Therapies organization. 

This position leads all FP&A activities for Advanced Surgery within the Americas region, maintaining significant interaction with senior leadership; the role offers direct support to the Advanced Surgery Finance leads and Advanced Surgery Americas leadership team. Reporting directly to the Sr. Finance Manager of Global FP&A Advanced Surgery, this role plays an instrumental part in steering Baxter’s financial direction as the Americas region represents more than 50% of the total revenue for Global Advanced Surgery business. This role requires a strategic mindset and strong analytical skills with a high level of financial and business acumen.

This role is expected to manage the planning and reporting cadence and provide actionable insights that will help support business leaders in informed decision-making. Leadership skills are needed to manage multiple business partners across the diverse countries making up the Americas region.

This role does not have any subordinates.

Your Team

This FP&A role is responsible for contributing to financial planning and reporting activities and providing strategic support to the whole Advanced Surgery Americas team.

What you'll be doing

• Performing strategic financial analysis and ad hoc reporting to assess business performance and facilitate decision making and business support to drive strategic decisions. Examples include pricing and profitability analysis, geographic expansion business case creation and business performance driver analysis on monthly and quarterly results, among others

• Lead and coordinate areas of the comprehensive planning processes (long range plan, forecasts, operating plan) and monthly financial reviews with senior commercial leaders and Global FP&A

• Develop, enhance, and maintain relationships with multiple finance and business customers across the whole Americas region, including United States, Latin America and Canada

• Lead month end close process and provide frequent P&L updates, as well as investigate and analyze variances. Collaborate with Accounting, Integrated Supply Chain, and broader finance teams to ensure accurate and comprehensive reporting

• Load planning information into the financial systems (PlanIT & Gensight) during every forecast process and conduct data validation checks to ensure accuracy

• Consolidate and create decks for leadership team meetings and monthly results reviews

• Ensure quality and timeliness of the monthly reports, forecasts, and the annual budget / strategic plan preparation

• Manage Daily Sales Reporting and sales outlook processes for the whole Americas region

• Collaborate with other departments, including sales, marketing, operations, R&D and others to ensure financial information is accurate, complete, and timely

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency gains in the FP&A function and drive their implementation

• Provide coaching, mentoring and collaboration to other finance team members within the FP&A organization

• Coordinate escalation / identification of issues and advise Finance leadership of potential business and / or operational risks

What you'll bring

• Excellent spoken and written English (C1 or up)

• At least 6 years relevant experience in the area of FP&A

• Degree in finance or any related field

• Strong business acumen and judgment as well as understanding of relevant business environment.

• Ability to effectively influence and drive consensus with diverse stakeholders; demonstrated ability to manage multiple, competing priorities

• Strong interpersonal communication, collaboration, and presentation skills

• Knowledge of GAAP accounting principles

• Decisive leadership, with ability to generate ideas, develop alternatives, rapidly decide upon best course of action and drive implementation of that decision

• Ability to travel internationally as require

Who can succeed?

• People who thrive in a fast-paced environment with minimum supervision and can manage ambiguity and changing direction in a role that is very hands-on

• Strong stakeholder management skills: ability to identify and build relationships with key stakeholders

• Ability to lead the delivery of projects from end to end and take ownership and accountability for the deliverables

• Strong leader that can influence others, manage, and motivate high performance teams

• Experienced in a matrix environment, able to drive impact across a range of functions

• Effective communicators that can interpret information and articulate a well concise recommendation to different stakeholders, managers and peers

• Dedicated achievers with Continues Improvement focus

• Analytical problem solvers with high attention to detail

• Problem solving skills that can identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive solutions

Reasonable Accommodations

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