Assoc Manager, Finance (FPNA)

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.

Finance Vision:

Build a world class Finance organization that enables Baxter to execute and achieve its strategic and financial objectives.

At Baxter, around the world, our employees are united by our mission to save and sustain lives. Together, we create a culture that encourages colleagues to pursue rewarding careers - where everyone can do meaningful work as a part of a team they respect, in an environment that values each person’s contributions.

META (Middle East, Turkey, and Africa) is a region within Growth and Emerging Markets with cross-segment sales and marketing responsibility.

We are looking for a Commercial FP&A Team member to support our vision, offering an attractive career journey within the Baxter Finance organization.

As a FP&A team your role will be to offer actionable insights that influence the decision making and impact the strategic direction of the business in support of our vision.

You will need to be able to demonstrate:

• Business Acumen

• An Inquisitive and Growth Mindset

• An Owner Mindset – get to the root cause and bring solutions.

• Strong Influencer skills – Communication, catalyst for action

Your key stakeholders will be:

• META GM

• Commercial Team (including Business Unit Heads, Marketing & Injectables Director)

• Commercial Excellence

• Finance teams (Accounting, FP&A, Supply Chain Finance)

What you’ll be doing:

• Oversee the Sales and Operating Expense Budget and Forecast for META Region (Middle East, Turkey, and Africa)

• Experience in managing the Budgeting process for the entire P&L, including Sales, Operating Expenses, and Operating Income

• Lead full P&L business reviews with cluster heads, covering sales, COGS, OCOS, R&D, SG&A, and operating income

• Collaborate with commercial and marketing teams to manage demand forecasting and address supply constraints

• Conduct monthly financial reviews, analyzing the drivers behind sales and cost variances versus Budget and Forecast

• With a focus on Decision Support activities, you will be responsible for preparing exploratory and predictive analytics, supporting tenders/deal decisions with profitability analysis and providing business analysis to support strategic decisions across the countries in META

• Working together with Sub-cluster Business Unit Heads, provide insightful analysis for price, product, customer, and market channels to identify forward thinking business recommendations that can be driven to execution.

• Collaborate with the Commercial Excellence and Regional Marketing Teams to understand sales force metrics, sales incentives, dashboards, KPI definitions and distributor trends to build proposals to accelerate business growth.

• Evaluate the ROI of incremental and existing SG&A costs, identifying areas for improvement.

• Challenge the optimization of the asset base including sales associated with lease capex, inventory management and management of associated risks.

• Adhoc Business Project support and analysis

• Support the FP&A and Business teams with input for the Baxter Forecast, Budget, and Long-Range Plan cycles.

• Support Compliance related activities through input in external or internal audits as requested and participate in Local Cluster Compliance Committee as a senior Finance representative for the Cluster.

• Member of the GEM Commercial Finance Partner Team driving improvements, best practice and harmonization across our team as well as participating in European projects when required.

Qualifications:

Education/ Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting or related field (country equivalent)

• Minimum of 7-8 years' experience in broad financial roles with multi-national companies in the FP&A domain

• Qualified Accountant is an advantage – Chartered or Management Accountant

Competencies:

• FP&A Experience of managing Full P&L

• Solid business knowledge and commercial acumen

• Strategic thinking and “owner” mindset

• Excellent analytical and organizational skills

• Strong communication, both verbal and written presentation skills

• Act with the highest level of compliance and integrity

• Accountability

• Exhibit Baxter’s Culture Levers: Speed, Simplicity, Courage, Collaboration

• Advanced MS Office Skills with emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint

Reasonable Accommodations

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