Commercial Finance Lead

Company: Danaher Group
Location: San Jose
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

Molecular Devices Location San Jose, California, United States of America Category Finance & Accounting Job Id R1139983 Join a global, growing, and profitable company and take the next step in your career as the Commercial Finance Lead! The Commercial Finance Lead is a highly visible role for a forward-thinking, agile, hands-on financial professional. This person will provide financial leadership and business support for the target region. We are looking for a strong great teammate who brings business acumen, a passion for operational excellence, great attention to detail, and the ability to work with senior leadership across a worldwide organization in a fast-paced environment. Key Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering: Act as trusted finance business partner for the commercial leader to provide P&L impact from business initiatives. Create analytical tools to help the commercial team better prioritize initiatives and maximize resources.
• Financial Management: Responsible for month-end close, accrual, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting. Identify trends, risks, opportunity, and drivers to ensure business deliver against the financial target. Establish a monthly cadence for financial review to ensure proper actions are taking as countermeasure if needed. Collaborate with functional leads and corporate colleagues to support and drive action plans to improve processes, automate/streamline functional reporting (using tools such as Oracle, Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning, PowerBI) to deliver better business insight.
• Decision Support: Influence leaders and team members on the prioritization of spending. Help the team to deliver against financial targets and prepare models to show investment impacts, initiatives, and influences decision making.
• Commercial Strategy: (Products and Segments): Conduct ongoing strategic product and segment margin and profitability review to increase awareness to the Commercial team and influence the right economic and growth-oriented decisions for the business.
• Leadership: Partner and lead across the team on improvement in execution and professional development. Promote cross-team collaboration and problem-solving.
• Cultivate functional partnership with business partners (Accounting, Sales Operations, Corp FP&A, Regional FP&A, Marketing, and Operations).
• This is a "hands-on" position with regular reporting and analysis requirements. Highly responsive to deliver high quality, accurate work products under tight time pressure.
• Understand sales funnel, backlog, and shipment to drive forecast accuracy and provide revenue growth outlook.
• Ability to create and develop ad-hoc financial modeling & analysis on Excel and/or HFM to provide meaningful insights & recommendations.
• Support ad-hoc projects as needed. Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or relevant subject area required
  • 10+ years of business finance experience
  • Previous responsibility for full P&L, analyzing revenue and gross margin, and develop insight.
  • Possess the managerial courage to highlight adverse financial results and trends and offer proposed solutions to resolve
  • Knowledge of financial and statistical modeling techniques
  • Fluent in advanced Excel, including Pivot Tables and function formulas
  • Strong planning, organization, project management skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong communications and ability to engage individuals at all levels of the organization Preferred qualifications:
    • MBA
    • Prior Business Unit and P&L management experience strongly preferred
    • Experience in a manufacturing environment preferred, but not required
    • Experienced with Oracle plus, and strong HFM experience preferred #LI-BC Diversity and Inclusion At Danaher, we are dedicated to building and sustaining a truly diverse and inclusive culture. These are not just words on a page -- Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority for the company, and it ties deeply to each of our core values. Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "EEO is the Law" poster is available here . By clicking the "Submit" button you consent to receive emails about similar jobs. You agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge Danaher's Data Privacy Policy . You may easily unsubscribe at any time. --------------------- Get tailored job recommendations based on your interests. Please be aware that fraudsters often impersonate companies like Danaher and our operating companies to scam job seekers.--You should expect a thorough recruitment process including scheduled interviews with recruiters and the hiring team. We do not ask job applicants to submit personally identifiable information by email, such as social security number or bank account details, and we will never ask you to purchase items for reimbursement or ask you to transfer funds.--Your safety is of the upmost importance to us-please be aware of and report any fraudulent activity to your local authorities.

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