Senior Manager, FP&A

HOW YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

About you:

Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you passionate about supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industries? Do you care about keeping patients and people safe? If so, then a career with Steris could be a great fit for you.

About Us:

At Steris we are the technological leader in design, production, and supply of sterilization equipment and monitoring systems.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Manager- FP&A vacancy. This is an excellent opportunity to join the business at a skilled professional level.

Reporting to the EMEA Head of Business Finance, the Country FPA Sr Manager provides financial planning and analysis to support continued profit and productivity improvement for the HC business in the country. This role is a partner with BU & Commercial country leaders and Finance teams across all locations and functions through management and delivery of financial reporting and analysis initiatives. 

This role is a key member of the EMEA Finance team and supports multiple functional areas. This role is both a leadership and contributing role. All management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, strategy, initiatives, current and future state, is led by this team. 

What is involved

• Consolidation and preparation of the Country monthly business review, monthly & quarterly forecasts and Quarterly Business Review for all functional areas of the Country business Review and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue results, profit margins and Opex for the Country by BU. 
• Strengthen core financial planning and analysis function and build strong relationships across country & multiple functional areas: 

1. Continuous improvement of the financial forecasting and budgeting process, full ownership of the P&L establishing a pro-active vs. re-active forecast/budget process. 
2. Establish both standard and consistent approach across all country analytic and reporting procedures  
3. Preparation and enhancement of all management reporting, including supporting monthly and quarterly business reviews 
4. Stretch goal to monitor and report against orders, backlog, sales, profit, and cash against targets on a weekly/mthly basis. 
5. Updates cost and expense trend reports, and analyses variations ensuring alignment with the forecast. 
6. Leads the design, development, deployment and maintenance of all internal FP&A Reports. 
7. Drive all strategic planning processes including establishing assumptions, modelling, consolidation and presentations 
8. Prepares ad-hoc financial analysis to support senior management decisions. 
9. Complete ownership of the full P&L, including Revenue, Margin and OPEX 

• Review all direct Sales and Marketing costs, overhead allocations, and General and Administrative expenses to assure timeliness and accuracy of reporting. Measure actual performance results against forecast, plan and prior year.  Identify issues that require action.  Highlight areas of business unit under/over performance.
• Leads the annual strategic planning and budgeting processes including establishing assumptions, spreadsheet modelling, consolidation, analysis a
• Business Partnering with the commercial team (both operations and finance) to achieve the sales objectives 

1. Establish & utilize financial levers: Price, Volume, Mix, Productivity, Inflation/Deflation and 
2. Strengthen data reliability mainly focused improving accuracy and reporting around Product Lines Pricing/Sales/COGS 
3. Strong correlation of Commercial and FP&A activities built into reporting, forecasting and budgeting 
4. Business Partnering with the commercial team (both operations and finance) to achieve the sales objectives 

• Assist in the creation and review of Business Unit capital expenditure requests. 
• Manage Country Sales commissions calculations & rewards framework 
• Project Manager for special projects as requested. 

Financial and Internal Controls  

• Assist with the monthly, quarterly, and year end financial close processes in accordance with Corporate guidelines and policies.  
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly, end of the year SOX reporting, data gathering and consolidation. 
• Ensure that revenue is properly recognized on all contracts in accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy. 

Other Key Responsibilities: 

• Establish key relationships and support EMEA FLT/Management and Country LT with all strategic planning, consolidation and ad hoc analysis or planning as required 
• Expert in Longview/Cognos/Tableau/Oracle applications, create team of power users and reporting 
• Extracts financial data from various finance and information systems including Longview, Cognos and Tableau as required 
• Responsible for Country Working Capital reporting and review, detail KPI reporting and department spending analysis. 

Long term strategic focus: 

• Partner with Corporate & Division(s) team on alignment of reporting and continuous improvement 
• Work with management on other opportunities for restructuring for improved profitability of operations in Country 
• Proactive desire to improve business results; actively bring new idea’s to transparency in the region to help assess profits and growth. 

Required Experience

• 5-7 years of Successful FPA Management experience is required, in manufacturing and/or medical devices industry. 
• Experience directly managing finance professionals and processes. 
• 2-3 years of experience in developing metrics.   
• Strong resolution and problem-solving skills.  
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen.   
• Manufacturing and Operations accounting knowledge preferred (experience a plus) 
• Strong Excel, Cognos, Tableau, Longview and PowerPoint skills.  
• Oracle experience a plus.

Skills

• Project management skills. 
• Ability to be a self-starter; excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.  
• Excellent attention to detail; ability to work as a team member, as well as independently; ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment; ability to successfully execute many complex tasks simultaneously. 
• Customer service orientation is mandatory. 
• Ability to build relationships at all levels within the organization. 

Equal Opportunities

STERIS plc provides employment and advancement opportunities without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex (gender), sexual orientation or any other legally protected characteristic as defined by UK employment law. The Company bases all employment decisions on merit, qualifications, skills, and abilities with the intention that the best candidate is selected for each position.