Finance Manager
Illumina is seeking a driven and dynamic candidate to join a successful and expanding Finance organization. This role will suit a positive and hands-on candidate, who will have direct exposure in understanding the Illumina AMR business, including its challenges and strategies. This position will also offer an opportunity to influence decision-making across the organization. The ideal candidate will support an assigned business area to maximize the finance contribution to the achievement of business objectives. They will provide quality financial and commercial input to individual investment decisions, challenge key forecasting assumptions and deliver expert financial analysis of performance, forecasts, key risks and sensitivities. This candidate will be viewed by customers as a business expert from a Finance standpoint and deliver valued support to the AMR business with consistency and efficiency.
Responsibilities :
- Finance partner to sub-regional General Manager to provide 'real time' support and analysis, while also influencing and challenging business decisions
- Lead annual Budget and Forecast process for assigned business units by working closely with regional teams, business leaders and Corporate HQ
- Drive improvements to the forecast and budget process to ensure continued forecast accuracy
- Influence decision making through partnering with senior leaders of the business to enable the organization to meet its strategic goals of topline growth while improving margin
- Analyze, synthesize and translate data into key strategic inputs and insights that will drive decision making at the executive level
- Develop appropriate financial presentation material for business reviews and present material to business leaders
- Assess on-going risks and opportunities and proactively develop action plans to minimize exposure and enhance opportunities
- Lead the creation / development of financial scenarios, including identifying risks and opportunities to drive ROI of projects / programs
- Supports and influences big deals in AMR by performing pricing and gross margin analysis for deals and partnering with the commercial team to identify key business drivers
- Proactively identifying business risks or opportunities and engage with business partners to determine impact to the business
- Identify opportunities to drive improvement in processes and reporting
- Ensure financial integrity for areas of responsibility
- Supports quarterly close process as it pertains to sales reporting and reviewing actual results and variances to budgets and forecast (includes development of business review presentations for executive leadership
- Provide training and insights to enhance financial acumen
Requirements :
Proven ability to evaluate the strategic implications of different business approaches and resolve complex arrangementsProven leader with demonstrated success with business partnering and influencing the decision-making of ExecutiveOutstanding financial acumen blended with business partnershipExperience in a diverse, global environmentInvolvement in maintaining an effective internal control environmentExceptional interpersonal soft skills, able to establish strong rapport and partnerships at all levels of the organizationStrong knowledge of financial modelling and analysis, budgeting and forecastingSuperb verbal and written communication and project management skillsAdvanced expertise in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; Knowledge of Tableau, Cognos, TM1 are a plusMust be able to travel domestically up to 10% of the time to support team collaboration, attend key business meetings, and engage with stakeholders at various locations.Education :
Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field, and a minimum of 12 years of related experience, with 3-6 years of Management experience.MBA, CFA or CPA a plusBiotechnology or pharmaceutical experience strongly preferred