Corporate Fp&a Manager

**ABOUT STRAUMANN**

The Straumann Group unites global reach, experience and innovation with passion and a commitment for uncompromising quality, making enhanced dental healthcare available and accessible to customers and patients around the globe. The group unites global and international brands that stand for excellence, innovation and quality, including Straumann, Neodent, Anthogyr, Medentika, ClearCorrect, Dental Wings and other fully
- or partly owned companies and partners. The Straumann Group employs approximately 12.000 people worldwide. Its products, solutions and services are available in more than 100 countries.
- GLOBAL FINANCE EVOLUTION_

Building on a foundation of financial strength, the Straumann Group is looking for innovative ways to evolve and accelerate growth. A key enabler of this growth will be the continues evolution of the Finance model supporting a broad range of strategic investments. The organization is innovating with new go to market strategies, evaluating M&A opportunities, digitalizing consumer solutions and globalizing core support function activities.

**ABOUT THE CORPORATE FP&A AND CONTROLLING DEPARTEMENT**

The Corporate FP&A and Controlling department is the finance business partner for the Executive Management Board (EMB), the CFO and CEO. It is the central information hub within the Straumann Finance organization and drives sustainable financial improvements and ensures global transparency of results at Group level by combining information from the sales regions, the manufacturing plants, the business units and other areas to form a coherent overall picture versus the Executive Management and the Board of Directors. The department further develops cross company controlling topics (such as benchmarking or cross-regional business analysis) and is owner of global controlling processes such as budgeting and forecasting. It increases profitability be driving cost saving, lean, innovation, pricing and customer profitability initiatives across different functions and regions in our matrix organization.

**WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR**

You are an experienced, forward-looking FP&A Manager (f/m/d) with strong BI expertise who enables growth in the wider organization by proactively supporting growth / innovation focused investments and provide financial transparency and analytics to drive management decisions. You will ensure that our reporting and analytical capabilities are continuously improved and enhanced. Key projects may include transforming broader finance processes and activities including the financial planning cycle, accelerate the implementation of a future proof reporting systems landscape and drive efficiency gains and operational leverage. You have a strong BI, data & analytics and management reporting background combined with business acumen and understanding the complexities of manufacturing equally. As a leader of change you show agility and resilience in driving transformation. By coordinating activities on a global level, you are comfortable acting in a matrix environment.The position reports to the Head of Group FP&A

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES & CAPABILITIES**
- Drive management performance reporting, automate and prepare sufficient and clear executive presentations that simplify complex topics, often with time sensitive deliverables.
- Supports driving profitable growth by improving visibility, forecasting, consolidation and analysis of results and key metrics while advising senior management on insights and recommended actions.
- Design and build effective BI reports and impactful visualizations (dashboards); develop, implement and maintain BI tools and databases.
- Supports the overall financial planning cycles (forecast, budget, mid-term planning) in alignment with key stakeholders and orchestrate with regions, business units and functions.
- Drives and continuously improves processes and activities in key FP&A focus areas such as Revenue & Gross Profit analysis; OPEX and CAPEX; Cashflow and Working Capital
- Active member in driving the digital transformation of our Finance department and advocate in promoting new technologies and tools such as AI/machine learning and cloud based solutions
- Conduct in depth financial analysis in support of Executive Management and Board of Director
- Helps to create effective performance metrics, data governance to drive accountability and ownership within the FP&A teams and business units

**REQUIREMENTS NEEDED**
- University degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
- Minimum of 5 years overall Finance experience of which minimum 3 years in a FP&A position in a bigger, international corporate organization.
- Strong reporting, visualization and dashboarding skills (i.e. Power BI); expertise in architecture and development of solutions in a data lake environment
- Results focus with the ability to work independently to meet targets and deadlines
- Position requires strong analytical, communication and organizat