FP&A DPS Senior Financial Analyst

The Global Services Senior Financial Analyst will support overall FP&A activities across assigned GS functions (Finance / HR / Procurement / GS S&O) in support of the Orthopaedics Business and other strategic projects in the Functions. Responsibilities include: 

• Provide financial planning and analysis support to the functions across major strategic initiatives, which includes project cost & headcount tracking, managing cost centers, variance explanations, actuals closing processes, and financial reporting activities. 

• Provide financial planning and analysis support to the functional FP&A leads / managers in support of the Orthopaedics Business process, which includes partnering with regional and global FP&A GS teams to understand the base business. 

• Drive standardization and streamline reporting of review decks, consolidation templates, and support automation of all financial packages in support of GS project initiatives. 

• Help prepare presentation of materials for reviews, as needed. 

• Administer financial policies and control procedures, and monitor the implementation of sound internal controls. 

• Support ad-hoc projects for continuous process improvements  
   

The role will demonstrate the Leadership Imperatives of Connect, Shape, and Deliver with regard to performance by utilizing performance metric driven insights to drive towards addressing unmet needs, challenging the status quo by setting aggressive performance targets, and holding accountable key stakeholders to act with speed and agility.  

Qualifications 

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably with a major in Finance, Economics, Data Analytics or Accounting 

• MBA, financial certification in ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CMA or other equivalent is preferred 

• Prior FP&A experience and relevant systems skills such as SAP / TM1 experience is preferred 

Required 

• A minimum 3 years finance or related business experience is required 

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills are required (i.e. Pivot Tables, Formulas, VLOOKUP functions) 

• Demonstrated experience in ability to partner with associates at all levels of the organization is required 

• Strong communications, framing presentation skills; along with solid interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills are required 

• Highly motivated individual with strong forward thinking analytical skills, creating problem-solving track-record and intellectual curiosity is required 

• Must work well in a dynamic environment and be able to recommend and implement process improvements, work independently and handle multiple tasks simultaneously 

• Knowledge of data analytics software (e.g. Alteryx, Tableau) is preferred