Senior Manager Finance Business Partner

Zimmer Biomet is a global medical technology leader committed to enhancing patient mobility. The Senior Manager, Finance Business Partner will provide strategic financial leadership, supporting business performance and decision-making through financial insights and planning.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a key Finance partner for a specific country, business unit, or function
• Leads country/ business unit by supporting in areas such as: commercial growth strategy, sales channel optimization, working capital management, and capital related analysis and decisions
• Supports teams with significant/ ad-hoc issues at country/ BU level, that cannot be resolved through standard operating procedures
• Conduct Business Owners needs analysis: Proactively engage with Business Owners to understand their requirements, pain points, and goals. Conduct in-depth needs analysis to identify areas where Finance can add value and address their specific challenges
• Supports delivery of P&L targets by partnering with Business Owners and functional leaders to develop driver-based top-line, resourcing, financial, and ROI models and to help advance key operational initiatives
• Builds a strong understanding of the ZB Growth Model (including pricing, sales channels, working capital management, and capital decisions) and recommends how to prioritize and adapt growth levers for the business
• Work closely with FP&A function and business teams (Pricing, IBP, etc.) to forecast and manage results, improve transparency, and maintain a single source of the truth amongst all stakeholders
• Provide business recommendations by using clear and effective presentation and communication
• Create and communicate presentations that engage and effectively story tell, to allow stakeholders to make effective decisions
• Supports accountability for business financial performance and serves as a finance advisor to key business stakeholders
• Reviews management reporting outputs with country/ cluster level business leaders (e.g., RGL, MBR, QFR, QLT, Close, Regional Reviews)
• Supports the long-range plan process with the business and provides analysis and recommendations
• Analyze monthly and quarterly results and communicate messages to senior management (finance and non/finance), including management reports packages, risks and opportunity assessment, business trends and make recommendations to help improve the business’ growth and profitability
• Continually assesses opportunities to improve BP delivery, optimize talent and leverage technology to improve efficiencies
• Bring a continuous improvement mindset, consistently evaluating current processes/procedures and seeking opportunities to improve efficiency
• Create, track, and refine Finance KPIs into relevant key metrics to drive modeling and analysis, build and maintain KPI dashboards and reports to provide insight into performance, and review these dashboards regularly with Business Owners and functional leadership to identify leading indicators and emerging risks
• Perform Financial scenario modeling and build business cases for ROI, resource allocation, price volume, etc
• Stay informed about market and economic trends: Stay up to date with the latest trends, innovations, and best practices. Leverage this knowledge to anticipate market changes and provide valuable insights to Business Owners

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of applicable experience is required
• Strong strategic planning and problem-solving skills to develop action plans and solutions that improve business performance
• Advanced financial acumen and ability to speak to standard reporting and planning processes
• Ability to build confidence with key stakeholders, including commercial and functional leaders at country and regional level
• Capability to work with and influence different functional groups to achieve the desired business outcome (influencing skills)
• Strong leadership and prioritization skills to manage business partnering work effectively
• Acts as a role model within the finance organization and promotes sound business partnering practices
• Strong ability to facilitate open dialogues with business/industry leaders and finance leaders to ensure that all perspectives are being heard and respected
• Has strong relationships with business leaders and is able to build and maintain new and existing relationships
• Adapts approach, communication style, and priorities to match changing business needs and situations
• Challenges teams and business on the notion of 'we have always done it this way' and 'we have tried that in the past' and drive process improvement
• Motivated/results driven and self-starter with the ability to impact others
• Strong understanding of financial and business modeling
• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, business management or equivalent and 8+ years of experience in Finance, including several years of experience as a finance business partner is preferred