Senior Finance Business Partner (UK&IRE)

STERIS Canada Corporation; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global healthcare provider is looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to oversee financial planning and analysis in the UK and Ireland. This role requires strong analytical skills, experience in FP&A within the manufacturing or medical devices sector, and proficiency in tools like Excel, Cognos, and Tableau. You will collaborate with various teams to drive financial insights and support strategic planning initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of successful FP&A management experience in manufacturing or medical devices.
• Experience managing finance professionals.
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly business reviews and forecasts.
• Lead financial planning and analysis processes.
• Collaborate with commercial teams for financial reporting.

Skills

Financial analysis

Strong Excel skills

Cognos knowledge

Tableau experience

Problem-solving skills

Tools

Longview

Oracle applications

Job description

Overview

Senior Finance Business Partner (UK&IRE) at STERIS. At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Manager- FP&A vacancy. This is an excellent opportunity to join the business at a skilled professional level. Reporting to the EMEA Head of Business Finance, the Country FP&A Sr Manager provides financial planning and analysis to support continued profit and productivity improvement for the HC business in the country. This role is a partner with BU & Commercial country leaders and Finance teams across all locations and functions through management and delivery of financial reporting and analysis initiatives. This role is a key member of the EMEA Finance team and supports multiple functional areas. This role is both a leadership and contributing role. All management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, strategy, initiatives, current and future state, is led by this team.

What you will do

• Consolidation and preparation of the Country monthly business review, monthly & quarterly forecasts and Quarterly Business Review for all functional areas of the Country; review and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue results, profit margins and Opex for the Country by BU.
• Strengthen core financial planning and analysis function and build strong relationships across country & multiple functional areas.
• Continuous improvement of the financial forecasting and budgeting process, full ownership of the P&L establishing a pro-active vs. re-active forecast/budget process.
• Establish both standard and consistent approach across all country analytic and reporting procedures.
• Preparation and enhancement of all management reporting, including supporting monthly and quarterly business reviews.
• Stretch goal to monitor and report against orders, backlog, sales, profit, and cash against targets on a weekly/monthly basis.
• Update cost and expense trend reports, and analyses variations ensuring alignment with the forecast.
• Lead the design, development, deployment and maintenance of all internal FP&A reports.
• Drive all strategic planning processes including establishing assumptions, modelling, consolidation and presentations.
• Prepare ad-hoc financial analysis to support senior management decisions.
• Own the full P&L, including Revenue, Margin and OPEX.
• Review all direct Sales and Marketing costs, overhead allocations, and General and Administrative expenses to assure timeliness and accuracy of reporting; measure actual performance against forecast, plan and prior year; identify issues and highlight areas of under/over performance.
• Lead the annual strategic planning and budgeting processes including establishing assumptions, spreadsheet modelling, consolidation, analysis.
• Business partnering with the commercial team (both operations and finance) to achieve the sales objectives.
• Strengthen data reliability focused on Product Lines Pricing/Sales/COGS.
• Collaborate with Commercial and FP&A activities in reporting, forecasting and budgeting.
• Assist in the creation and review of Business Unit capital expenditure requests.
• Manage Country Sales commissions calculations & rewards framework.
• Project management for special projects as requested.

Financial and Internal Controls

• Assist with monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial close processes in accordance with Corporate guidelines and policies.
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly, end-of-year SOX reporting, data gathering and consolidation.
• Ensure that revenue is properly recognized on all contracts in accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy.

Other Key Responsibilities

• Establish key relationships and support EMEA FLT/Management and Country LT with all strategic planning, consolidation and ad hoc analysis or planning as required.
• Expert in Longview/Cognos/Tableau/Oracle applications; create a team of power users and reporting.
• Extracts financial data from various finance and information systems including Longview, Cognos and Tableau as required.
• Responsible for Country Working Capital reporting and review, KPI reporting and department spending analysis.

Long term strategic focus

• Partner with Corporate & Division teams on alignment of reporting and continuous improvement.
• Work with management on opportunities for restructuring to improve profitability of operations in Country.
• Proactive desire to improve business results; actively bring new ideas to transparency in the region to help assess profits and growth.

Required Experience

• 5-7 years of successful FPA management experience, in manufacturing and/or medical devices industry.
• Experience directly managing finance professionals and processes.
• 2-3 years of experience in developing metrics.
• Strong resolution and problem-solving skills; strong analytical skills and business acumen.
• Manufacturing and Operations accounting knowledge preferred.
• Strong Excel, Cognos, Tableau, Longview and PowerPoint skills.

Skills

• Self-starter with excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail; able to work as a team member or independently in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment; capable of handling multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Customer service orientation is mandatory.
• Ability to build relationships at all levels within the organization.

STERIS plc provides employment and advancement opportunities without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex (gender), sexual orientation or any other legally protected characteristic as defined by UK employment law. The Company bases all employment decisions on merit, qualifications, skills, and abilities with the intention that the best candidate is selected for each position.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 18,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.