[Finance] FP&A Senior Finance Manager [MedTech]

The Business Unit Finance (BUF) team partners with commercial leadership to shape strategy, drive portfolio/pricing decisions, and lead/participate in management processes that supports & enables us to be the fastest growing medical device company in Japan. Our role is to surface the right facts, past learnings, and partner with key stakeholders to drive decisions necessary to deliver market leading results. We strive to work closely with our functional and regional partners to understand the needs & challenges while ensuring that what we implement will drive value for our patients/stakeholders.

The FP&A Senior Finance Manager will oversee overall financial performance of MedTech Japan and provide financial insights to ensure growth, profitability, and integrity across the company. The local FP&A team in MedTech Japan will report to this role. Talent development with focus on continuous performance improvement and engagement w ill be essential.

The role will involve working closely with finance counterparts within the Japan team, as well as across functional teams including IT, supply chain, R&D, CS&CE, and our finance regional office. He/She will collaborate with GS, Tax, and compliance team to ensure appropriate financial statements and internal controls.

Key business partners:

·-All function senior leaders

·-Regional finance leaders

·-GS, Tax, and compliance team

Financial and Strategic planning and Reporting:

• Lead the entire Business Planning cycles by leading the FP&A team and collaborating with local Franchise Controllers with support from regional FP&A (COE) team. Support goal setting for the franchises and functions/departments, including resource recommendations across activity types and businesses.
• Lead/support expense budgeting of functions/departments including IT, R&D, CS&CE, Education, Supply Chain, and other overhead functions.
• Drive forecast and budgeting accuracy across the company.
• Lead Strategic Planning/3yr Growth Plan financial cycle for the MedTech Japan business.
• Prepare presentation materials for Japan and regional management.
• Facilitate clear representation of the business’ actual performance, future plans, risks and opportunities.
• Provide planning inputs including insights from macroeconomics/ Reimbursement / competitor analysis.
• Create clarity on source of growth, innovation pipeline sufficiency and resource needs.
• C oordinate, consolidate, and review all franchise and function data for each budget cycle submissions, and adhoc report s/analys e s.
• Partner with regional FP&A (COE) to ensure timely, accurate & appropriate regular reporting and communication to Regional / Local management including monthly sales dashboard, GP commentary, price and volume change analysis, NPI tracking, franchise P&L etc.
• Collaborate to improve current practices by driving better accuracy, efficiency and simplicity.

Business and Financial Projects and Initiatives:

• Support/lead company-wide initiatives, including Company Strategic Priorities, to drive growth and profitability.
• Provide insights in some of cross-cluster/market initiatives including cross-cluster finance initiatives.
• Support appropriate planning and execution of the company rebate programs, sales incentive plans, and other programs to ensure financial compliance and effective resource allocation.
• Plan and implement educational trainings to the MedTech Japan employees to improve financial acumen and compliance in the organization.
• Support global financial project (i.e. SigniFi) as appropriate.
• Support/lead adhoc finance and/or cross-company projects.

Compliance and Audit:

• Responsible for ensuring a strong compliant environment. Manage compliance related procedures and documentations to maintain SOX compliance.
• Provide support to business partners and compliance team to ensure compliance (SOX, HCC, FCPA, Taxation etc.)
• Support both internal audit (SOX, FCPA etc.) and external audit (PWC, tax etc.)

Talent & Leadership:

• Join Japan cross sector FCC (Finance Controller Council) to enhance talent development, capability building, and/or engagement of the Japan Finance organization.