Senior Business Partner Finance

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Overview

Waters are seeking a Senior Business Finance Partner to join the team in Wilmslow or Wexford!

The Finance business partner should have the ability to influence day to day decisions, shaping strategy and the direction of the business. You must be able to use financial data and expert knowledge to facilitate change by working closely with or providing a service to the service and influence system sales teams.

The finance business partner should be able to provide strategic insights on the service and sales business. These insights should be based on operational performance, industry dynamics, macro-economic trends, and the competitive landscape. The person must be able to build strong relationships with the Europe North General manager and key service and sales managers. They must be able to apply interpretation skills beyond the traditional functions of finance and to bring them to bear on a broad range of commercial topics. These topics must then be effectively brought to life for senior management teams.

The ability to listen, interpret, influence, negotiate, inspire are all vital to the role.

Responsibilities

Purpose

The post holder will be expected to commit to Waters vision that decisions and actions are guided by two simple words - Deliver Benefit. We should positively impact our customers, employees, shareholders, and society at every opportunity.

• Providing analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies
• Providing effective commercial procedures, or initiating change, to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered
• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams
• Work with EMEA business partners to develop better forecasting tools.
• Driving and leading adhoc commercial and operational projects to ensure successful delivery against an agreed timeline.
• Provide regular updates on Key performance indicators.
• Provide support to build business cases including ROI calculations.
• Drive analysis of key trends on a proactive basis and understanding business drivers behind the trends that are visible in the results.
• Support the delivery of a credible Annual Operating Plan by providing review of data and making recommendations based on this analysis.
• Work with business leaders to ensure resources and utilised in an efficient manager to meet business goals.
• Work with Financial analysts to build reporting dashboards that provide real time information.

Qualifications

The successful candidate is likely to show the following behaviors:

• A self-starting mind-set, able to look ahead, innovate and continually improve agility and adaptable - is comfortable that change is a constant and can adapt actions and thinking to suit different conditions or situations.
• Attention to detail and problem-solving mindset
• Comfortable working autonomously
• Collaboration & team-work - possess the ability to listen, share information and works effectively with team members to accomplish goals
• Communication - able to express ideas clearly, effectively and with meaning. Enables effective communication across the function or team. Ability to influence and challenge others by communicating clear facts in a convincing and respectful manner.
• Creative thinker/Innovator - Have the ability to look for alternative approaches. Always willing to look at something differently, constantly asking what if? Including the ability to apply creative and unconventional solutions to complex problems.
• Enterprise minded - The ability to see the big picture whilst helping implement procedural change. Also uses expert knowledge to make sound judgement and to act on it where appropriate.
• Solutions driven mindset - ability to analyse a problem and construct solutions to resolve said problem.

Knowledge, Education and Experience

• A qualified accountant or hold a master's degree in finance/Accounting.
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills
• Expert knowledge in Office 365, including Excel, Powerpoint and Power BI (would be an advantage)
• SAP with business warehouse experience would be useful.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and additional European language would be beneficial.
• Project management expertise or experience would be an advantage
• Extensive experience working in a commercial environment preferably in the Life sciences industry.

Location & Travel:

This position is hybrid working from our Waters Wexford/Wilmslow facility, but we are flexible with the location of candidates. The person must be prepared to travel internationally not only during working hours but also occasionally at weekends.

In addition to salary, we work flexibly and provide 25 days holidays, excellent family friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.