Finance Business Partner - Aerospace, FTC 6 month

Danaher - Global; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Business Unit Finance Business Partner to lead financial support in a key region. This role involves providing critical insights to enhance business performance, overseeing budgeting and forecasting processes, and developing scalable reporting solutions. With a focus on collaboration and analytical capabilities, the successful candidate will play a vital role in driving strategic plans and improving operational efficiency. Join a dynamic team dedicated to advancing health and safety through innovative solutions, and make a significant impact in the world of life sciences.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in finance or accounting roles.
• Ability to partner with business leaders for forecasting and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support to regional leaders and analyze performance.
• Oversee budgeting and forecasting processes to enhance efficiency.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

ERP Systems

Consolidation Tools

Excel

Job description

Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world.

Pall is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

The Business Unit finance business partner will lead the support to a key region of the business unit, providing financial insight to its leaders. This role is responsible for performing the day-to-day planning and performance management processes as well as identifying and supporting strategic plans to leverage opportunities. In addition, this person would help identify and develop scalable reporting solutions and process improvements to increase the efficiency of the organization.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

1. Provide key financial support to regional leaders by performing variance, including monthly results and forecasts/budgets.
2. Partner with the business to understand internal and external factors impacting orders, sales, and margins and implement opportunities to grow business performance.
3. Oversee forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes, including profit planning, sales and direct margin forecasts, expense budgets, working capital and cash flow estimates and sensitivity analysis.
4. Support the enhancement of processes and development of key financial and operational metrics/dashboards/reports to improve efficiency and analytical capabilities.
5. Prepare and analyze financial trends impacting the business, including external competitors and market.

The essential requirements of the job include:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, 6-10 years of progressive experience with at least one similar role. A combination of progressive accounting and FP&A roles is preferred.
2. Experience partnering with business leaders to build sales and order forecasts/budgets.
3. Understanding of P&L, Balance Sheets and Cash Flows.
4. Highly analytical and intellectually curious, with an ability to understand how things work. Emotionally intelligent with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
5. Experience and ability to use technology effectively and efficiently, including ERPs, Consolidation Tools, Excel.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.