Agilent Technologies is seeking an experienced finance professional to join their Gas Phase Division as a Business Finance Partner. The role involves collaborating with business and product leaders to provide financial guidance, support investment decisions, and drive sustainable growth through strategic financial planning and analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Division business leaders to provide financial guidance, challenge assumptions and support operational decision-making across geographically dispersed businesses
- Lead financial planning, forecasting, and performance management for assigned businesses, translating business drivers into actionable financial insights and recommendations
- Monitor business performance, identifying risks, opportunities and actions to improve growth, profitability and resource allocation
- Develop business cases and financial analyses to support investments, product development, and portfolio decisions
- Collaborate with the FP&A COE to ensure high-quality planning, reporting and analytical outputs, enabling greater focus on forward-looking business partnering
- Leverage data, automation and AI-enabled tools to improve forecasting accuracy, accelerate insights and enhance decision support
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent
- 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, strategic finance, or commercial finance roles
- Demonstrated experience supporting senior business leaders and influencing decisions in a global, matrixed organization
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect financial performance to business strategy and operational drivers
- Proven ability to lead annual planning, forecasting, investment analysis, and performance management processes
- Advanced financial modeling, scenario planning, and analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations
- Exceptional communication and executive presentation skills, with a track record of challenging assumptions and influencing stakeholders at all levels
- Experience leveraging data visualization, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve forecasting, decision support, and business insights
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a fast-paced, changing environment