Overview
This is where your insights influence change. As a member of the Baxter Finance team, you have the critical thinking and analytical mindset that allows you to translate data into meaningful, actionable insights that help teams learn and adapt along the way. We guide our internal partners to understand financial opportunities or realities that move Baxter forward and closer to our mission to save and sustain lives. While you often work independently with your cross-functional team, you always have the greater finance organization to lean on for support and career mentoring.
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Success Profile
What makes a successful Finance team member at Baxter? Take a look at some of the top traits we’re looking for and see if you’re a fit.
- Adaptable
- Analytical
- Detail-oriented
- Easygoing
- Results-driven
- Team player
Specialist, FP&A
This is where you save and sustain lives
At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.
Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.
There hasn't been a better time to join Baxter!
About Us
Our products and therapies touch the lives of millions of people around the world every day, which is why we are passionate about ground-breaking innovations, with personalized care to all of us. For 87 years and counting, we have been at the critical intersection where the ideas that save and sustain lives meet the providers who make it all happen. And now, we are determined to realize our boldest opportunities to transform global healthcare for years to come.
Your role at Baxter
At Baxter, we are building an outstanding Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization. We are implementing a program which will standardize processes, enhance systems, improve forecasting accuracy, strengthen business partnerships and improve opportunities for personal skill-building and professional growth.
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 Medication Delivery & Therapies business teams. This role interacts with the Americas FP&A Center of Expertise (CoE) team as well as in-country finance and business partners within the Clusters, Americas Region and Global FP&A.
This position will support monthly performance reviews, quarterly forecast processes. annual budgeting and the long-range plan. In addition, it will support value-added business analytics, process improvement projects and ad-hoc initiatives.
Your team
We develop quality products with the patient in mind, so our efforts are also patient-centric. That means you can be proud of our work and the value we provide to people every day.
As a large, multinational organization, you have the opportunity to expand your knowledge through collaboration with a variety of individuals, exposure to different facets of our portfolio, and an encouraging leadership team that encourages ongoing development
What you'll be doing
- Coordinate closely with local business partners and finance teams to review projections, budgets, and historical results.
- Load budget and forecast adjustments into system for your respective businesses.
- Ensure quality, accuracy, and timeliness of the monthly reports, forecasts, and the annual budget / strategic plan preparation.
- Deliver a comprehensive monthly reporting package for management, including monthly reviews of budget vs. actual results and variances with P&L/cost center owners, Cash Flow and Managed Capital Base
- Partner with FP&A Regional, Local, and corporate resources within commercial and manufacturing/supply chain organizations to understand, drive and support decision making ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
- Coordinate escalation / identification of issues and advise Finance leadership of potential business and / or operational risks.
- Perform strategic ad hoc reporting and financial analysis to assess business performance and facilitate decision making and business support.
- Update process flows, operating manuals, training guides, and standard operating procedures as needed.
- Support Finance leadership with process improvement, policy development, and / or strategic initiatives (e.g., business systems, processes, and / or policies)
What you'll bring
- Excellent spoken and written English (C1 or up)
- Demonstration of key finance competencies and qualifications and typically 5 + years of relevant experience with financial planning and reporting
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required.
- Fully bilingual (English / Spanish) as a requirement.
- Strong Power Point and Excel skills
- Excellent Communications and leadership skills
- Highly motivated individual looking to continuously deliver and exceed.
- Experience in a Shared Service Centre environment.
- Ability to work well under time constraints and/or pressure.
- Attentive to detail
- Ability to multi-task with a strong sense for prioritization
- Strong customer service focus
- Team player
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Working knowledge of systems such as Concur, JD Edwards, HFM.
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