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Finance Business Partner (12 months contract)

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The Park, New South Wales
Senior level
The Park, New South Wales
Senior level
The Finance Business Partner will oversee financial aspects for Operating Units, providing insights, budgeting, and financial planning support, while leading a team.
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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the LifeAt Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
As part of the Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) Region, the Medical Surgical (MS) portfolio is the largest in size, assisting over 2 million patients annually across more than 1,550 private and public hospitals. The successful candidate for the Finance Business Partner role in MS will take full ownership of all financial aspects of their dedicated Operating Units (OU). This role serves as the key business partner to the OU leadership team, working closely with accounting, pricing, enterprise accounts, and offshore support teams, to influence financial decisions. Reporting to the MS Finance Manager, this role will also oversee data and analytical financial activities in the MS Business Finance team, providing financial support and business analysis to drive financial results and improve operating performance.
This is a 12-18 months maternity leave cover role, with the possibility to evolve into a permanent position in the future.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

Commercial Partnership

  • Act as the primary financial contact for OU Leadership Team; providing timely, accurate and insightful financial information, translating financial data into actionable insights to guide business decisions.

  • Develop strategies and influence internal stakeholders to improve financial performances while responding to emerging issues, opportunities, and trends.

  • Create analytical models to evaluate various business scenarios and support strategic alignment.

Budgeting and Forecasting

  • Partner with OU commercial leaders to develop the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Rolling Forecast (RF), and Strategic Plan (SP) for the OU.

  • Lead the annual financial planning process and routine forecasting to ensure high-quality business planning across revenue, costs, expenses, FTE, inventory and CAPEX.

  • Own and present performance reports, budgets, and forecasts to key stakeholders, identifying and communicating risks and opportunities.

  • Support business case development and provide commercial evaluations for key initiatives.

Reporting and Analysis

  • Deliver accurate and clear financial results and financial comparisons at period end.

  • Understand OU performance, prepare and present monthly analysis, commentary, and forecasting, focusing on key drivers, performance metrics, risks, and opportunities to Finance Leadership and business partners.

  • Improve financial performance reporting and work with business teams to enhance forecasting accuracy.

  • Drive the implementation of business intelligence (BI) tools and software to analyse and explain business performances.

  • Coach and mentor junior members in the MS Business Finance team as necessary.

  • Complete other ad-hoc and/or standard reporting processes as necessary.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

  • Bachelors degree required in Finance or Accounting

  • Minimum 10 years of relevant experiences in Finance or Accounting

  • Experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

  • Advanced excel and data modelling skills and knowledge

  • Experience with financial/reporting and planning systems (e.g., SAP, Hyperion/Essbase, Anaplan etc.), PowerBI and other data visualisations tools

  • Experience and/or available to operate within a complex organization and with various stakeholders.

  • Strong results orientation and bias for action, including a high degree of initiative and self-motivation in understanding business needs.

  • Strong analytical skills to be able to identify trends, patterns, and insights from data, and translate ideas and financial results into concise reports, visuals and insights.

  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, strong business acumen, with the ability to influence stakeholders across various levels of management and deliver value to the organization.

  • Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to handle multiple tasks and shifting priorities and experience with cross-functional projects that require matrix collaboration, relationship-building, and influencing others.

  • Proactively seeks ways to improve and innovate.

  • Experience in MedTech or general healthcare industry.

  • Knowledge of SQL, R, Python or other coding languages.

  • This is a hybrid role, requiring 2 days onsite in our brand-new office located in Macquarie Park.

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here  
 

Top Skills

Anaplan
Essbase
Excel
Hyperion
Power BI
Python
R
SAP
SQL

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