Finance Business Partner

Role Summary:

The position is part of the site management team and reports directly to the Senior Manager, Finance Business Partner Vacuum Pumps with a matrix reporting line to the Director, Plant Manager for the Suzhou site. The position works closely with the operations and the functional management team in providing financial planning and analysis to help the Site leadership team achieve its goals and ensure sustainable and profitable growth. As business partner the incumbent will use data as strategic asset to provide decision support, accurate planning and forecasting, and meaningful analysis.

Responsibilities :

• Provide proactive business and financial analysis, identify important trends and perform detailed variance analysis to assist the operations in achieving its objectives.
• Make recommendations for potential improvements and promote the active use of financial data to drive business success and identify potential risks and opportunities.
• Provide forward looking insights and value-added analysis to leadership regarding profitability, competitive landscape, products, etc.
• Drive Financial performance management, to include the strategic planning process, annual budgeting and communication of results.
• Lead the annual budgeting process and prepare monthly/ quarterly forecasts for the business, ensuring that they accurately reflect the business and that any gaps are identified early, and appropriate actions are taken to improve operational performance.
• Lead processes and initiatives to reduce primary working capital and maximize operating cash flow.
• Grow and mature business partners' capabilities to deliver insight resulting in enterprise value creation.
• Further develop product line reporting and product margin analysis.
• Review costs, variances (GL, labor/overhead and departmental) and efficiency measures (asset & people utilization) with departmental leaders; ensure actions are in place to continuously improve, achieve budgets & forecasts.
• Meet all reporting deadlines with comprehensive, accurate, complete and responsive data.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the Regional Accounting Team and the Business Support Center, as well as other Corporate functions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance & Accounting / Economics or similar education. Further professional education is a plus.
• Minimum 5+ years FP&A, Controlling or (Cost) Accounting experience in an international manufacturing business, auditing or consulting.
• Proven ability to succeed in complex matrix environments.
• Able to multi-task in high pressure, time-constrained situations.
• Solid working knowledge of US GAAP is a plus.
• IT literate with advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel). Experience with ERP systems and SAP BPC strongly preferred.
• Language skills: Chinese and fluent in English is a must.

Preferred Experience/Skills:

• Team player with ’Can do’ attitude and the ability to constructively challenge the status quo and find solutions.