Location
Chennai | India
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Job Title
Director FP&A
Job Description
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Job Posting Description
Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.
But it's not just what we do, it's who we are. We are 75,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers' needs. It's what inspires us to create meaningful solutions - the kind that make a real difference - when it matters most.
The world and our customers' needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That's why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.
Job Summary:
In this role you are expected to ensure proactive and timely analysis in business or market to supports the business partner in decision making. Works together with Finance Business Partners on core deliveries to ensure that they are delivers in a timely and duly manner, (re) designs FP&A processes to fit business needs and ensures that the business-related changes are properly reflected in the businesses.
Key areas of accountability:
- Own and deliver Month end closing, Monthly Performance Reporting, Latest Views, Forecast and Annual Operating Plan by effectively collaborating with multiple stakeholders across regions/businesses including Business Partners and other FP&A teams
- Own and drive hub KPIs for operational excellence, continuous improvement, and people and capability building. As a member of Hub LT, co-own and drive hub priorities and agenda including cross-functional priorities towards end-to-end outcomes.
- Engage with Philips heads of finances and business partners across regions/businesses, as a main point of contact to support key region/business goals, review regular performance feedback and implement countermeasures where needed
- Guide the FP&A team to pro-actively support strategy execution by delivering meaningful, accurate and timely in-depth business insights by forward-looking analysis, and by translating variances in financial and nonfinancial KPIs for senior leadership in Regions and Businesses to make fact-based sound business decisions.
- Co-own and drive FP&A Strategic roadmap and Hoshin targets towards Business Accountable Operating Model, Driving Simplicity and Creating Impact. Lead FP&A transformation projects @ GBS Hub that aims to realize the strategic FP&A objectives.
- Champion lean thinking and tools for operational excellence and productivity.
- Drive improvement in digital landscape, automation and standardization through systems and tools to maximize efficiency and actionable insights. Ensure quality, accuracy and integrity of information stored in our systems, enabling a single source of truth.
- Coach and develop FP&A Senior Team leads, Team Leads and analysts and ensure robust FP&A workforce management (knowledge management, competencies, coaching, and succession planning).
- Actively drive workload balancing and cross-team support to counter-act the workload peaks driven by the financial process cycles
Technical/Functional Competencies:
- 15+ years professional experience leading Financial Planning & Analysis for large ($ bn +) global business portfolio in a matrix organization
- Demonstrate commercial mindset and strong business acumen, proven ability to deliver actionable insights in complex and global business set-ups
- Experience of having managed a large size (100+) of experienced finance professionals
- He/She should be a Program/Project & Change Management expert
- Advanced technical skills in Excel, ERP (SAP preferred) and PowerPoint
- Experience with reporting & analytical tools, like Power BI, Qlikview, Qliksense, Business-Intelligence environments, SQL, etc.
- Strong affinity to LEAN processes and tools
Behavioral Competencies:
- Strong influencing ability, effective communication, with proven collaboration mindset
- Strong people-focus, adept at inspiring, coaching and mentoring high energy and high capability finance team.
- Can easily adapt to a fast-paced change environment.
- Proactive and action-oriented, continuous improvement mindset
- Not averse to deep-dive hands-on where needed.
- Ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations and in absence of complete information.
- Strong customer centricity
In return, we offer you
A meaningful career, with new challenges in our dynamic organization, working in an encouraging multinational and multicultural environment. We are happy to provide you with this opportunity to work with new technologies. You will be surrounded by passionate and committed, colleagues who share your ambition to create outstanding customer experiences. Your work will be ambitious and full of opportunities for growth. Variety and challenge will be part of your daily routines.
Our commitment to inclusion and diversity
At Philips, we provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company , irrespective of age, color, disability, nationality, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation (LGBTQ +), and all aspects that make individuals unique. Encouraging diversity and fostering inclusion are key to our mission of improving the lives of 2.5 billion people a year by 2030 through meaningful innovation. We have fair, transparent, and clear employee policies which promote diversity and equality, in accordance with currently applicable law. For, we believe that life is better when #youareyou.
Why should you join Philips
Working at Philips is more than a job. It's a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.
About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
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If you're interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion .
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