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At Baxter, we are building an outstanding Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization. We are implementing a ground-breaking program which will streamline processes, enhance systems, improve forecasting accuracy, strengthen business partnerships and improve opportunities for personal skill-building and professional growth.
**Your role at Baxter**:
This position leads FP&A COE Global Medication Product and Therapies (MPT) Consolidation team for Integrated Supply Chain (ISC), maintaining significant interaction with senior leadership. The role provides direct support to the Sr Finance Director for MPT Manufacturing and his team, including Plant Controllers. The position also interacts with the MPT VP Finance and the Sr. Director of Global FP&A. This role plays an instrumental part in steering Baxter's financial direction.
The role is expected to manage the planning and reporting cadence for the Segment within ISC and provide actionable insights that will help support business leaders in informed decision-making. The jobholder is the point of contact for strategic as well as business planning matters related Business Segment. This position will lead the FP&A process for 24 manufacturing sites with an annual value of production (VOP) of +$2B.
**What you'll be doing**:
- Lead the Segment's financial forecasting and planning processes, establishing guidelines, templates, and timelines to ensure consistency and completeness.
- Use in depth business knowledge to understand business drivers, risks and opportunities so as to play a role as business partner in preparation of forecast, budgets and long-range plans.
- Innovate and standardize processes to enhance departmental productivity and forecasting accuracy through automation.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement by translating insights into actionable process and guideline enhancements.
**Financial Reporting & Analysis**:
- Supervise the analysis and reporting of financial statements, explaining trends and variances to the latest forecasts / prior year for senior management.
- Coordinate the preparation of materials for global operating reviews, ensuring comprehensive and accurate financial presentations.
- Enable the team to support business decision-making by modeling key scenarios and performing sensitivity analyses.
**Strategic Business Support**:
- Support key strategic business initiatives, providing business partnering support, sophisticated analytics and project management skills.
- Evaluate and help coordinate the implementation of mitigation plans.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with internal clients and partners, offering insights and solutions to challenges from commercial, operational, and ground-breaking perspectives.
**What you'll bring**:
- Solid discernment, excellent analytical skills, and sound judgment.
- Organized and forward-looking, proficient in managing multiple team members and deadlines.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills with senior leaders and functional colleagues.
- Superior interpersonal, teamwork, and presentation skills.
- Ability to influence, align and challenge senior stakeholders within finance and the wider business.
- Proficient in process automation and improvement.
- Demonstrated experience in leading, motivating, and developing diverse teams in a distributed/remote environment.
- Strategic and decisive leadership with a track record of idea generation, developing alternatives, and driving implementation.
- Fluency in English, both spoken and written.
There hasn't been a better time to join Baxter!
**Equal Employment Opportunity**:
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