Financial Analyst

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.

Overall:

• As a Commercial Finance Analyst, the role will be to support in offering actionable insights that influence decision making and impact the strategic direction of the business in line with our vision
• Finance vision: Build a world class Finance organization that enables Baxter to execute and achieve its strategic and financial objectives

Duties and Responsibilities:

• With a focus on Decision Support activities, the Commercial Finance Analyst - HST will be supporting sales managers and Finance leaders in preparing exploratory and predictive analytics and providing business analysis to support strategic decisions across the Clusters in Western Europe
• Assisting in tenders/deal profitability analysis and liaising with our Sales, Marketing, Contracts / Tenders and operational teams to update, maintain price frameworks and price lists and further develop / improve price/margin/quotation tools.
• Working together with Sales and Operations to support weekly sales forecast cycles
• Assisting the FP&A and business teams with input for the Baxter Forecast and Budget
• Providing monthly analysis on Sales, SGP and OPEX utilizing PowerBI reports
• Supporting and analyzing ad-hoc business projects
• Member of the EMEA Commercial Finance Partner team driving improvements, best practices and harmonization across our team as well as participating in European projects when required

Other duties may be assigned - Environment and Energy

• Knowing the impacts of his/her activities or behavior on safety, the environment and energy performance
• Complying with the rules established in terms of safety, environmental protection and reduction of energy consumption and knowing the repercussions of non-compliance with these rules
• Taking responsibility for his/her own contribution to the achievement of safety, environmental and energy performance objectives
• Immediately reporting risks and risk behaviors that may have an impact on safety, environment and energy performance

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or related field
• Qualified Accountant – Chartered or Management Accountant

Experience

Number of years of experience: Minimum of 3 years’ experience in broad financial roles with multi-national companies, ideally in Business Partnership capacity

Field of expertise: Finance, Accounting, Finance Business Partnering

Functional/specific competencies

• Solid business knowledge and commercial acumen
• An inquisitive and growth mindset
• Strategic thinking and “owner” mindset (get to the root cause and bring solutions)
• Strong influencer skills – Communication, catalyst for action
• 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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