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.
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 bringing forward a continuingly evolving Finance model regularly reviewing options for strategic investment. The organization is innovating with new go to market strategies, evaluating M&A opportunities, digitalizing consumer solutions and globalizing core support function activities.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR …
You will be the right arm of the CFO and the left arm of the CEO. We are looking for a forward-looking Head Group Controlling that can support the Finance organizations internal evolution (system / process simplification, policies, model) and enable growth in the wider organization by supporting proactive growth / innovation focused investments. You will lead a team ensuring that Group Finance Operations and forecasting are well managed and run seamlessly. Key projects may include; transforming our Performance Planning / Monitoring and broader finance processes, drive efficiency gains and operational leverage, move to Rolling Forecasting, challenge COGS, evaluate operational investments for growth.
You should have strong finance leadership experience supporting global commercial / sales organizations and understand the complexities of manufacturing / production. As a leader of change you will show agility and resilience in driving transformation. Leading the Headquarter controlling team and coordinating activities on a global level, you will be comfortable leading in a matrix environment. You should have experience in leading and inspiring a team of direct reports (4 Controllers) and be familiar with leading through influence supporting Regional / Local Finance teams align to global practices.
ABOUT THE GROUP CONTROLLING TEAM …
The Group Controlling department is the finance business partner for the executive management team, CFO and CEO. It is the central information hub within the Straumann Finance organization. It drives sustainable financial improvement and ensuring 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 Board. The job holder shall further develop cross-company controlling topics (such as benchmarking or cross-regional business analysis) and global controlling processes (such as budgeting or forecasts). The job holder is the sparring partner of and shall functionally lead as “primus inter pares” the Regional Finance Officer and manufacturing controllers with the goal to continuously and grow the business and improve efficiency and profitability. Profitability increases shall be achieved by driving cost savings, lean processes, innovations, pricing and customer profitability across different functions and regions in our matrix organization.
In addition, the department provides controlling processes for the divisions. The focus here is on the financial business partner role for divisions, including the creation, support and follow-up of business cases for new products and solutions of the Group as well as the marketing, promotional and educational activities related to these products.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
· Proactive finance business partner for the executive management team, especially the CEO and CFO
· Driving continuous financial improvement, value creation and profitable growth across functions and regions
· Leading and develop a high-performing team of experienced business controllers, functional leading the regional finance officer, business units and manufacturing controllers
· Drives and further develops all planning/forecasting processes, modelling of the mid/long term strategic plan
· Define and set financial targets and KPIs, monitors development and initiates corrective actions where needed in order to continuously improve in the headquarter, the regions and Manufacturing plants.
· Lead group-wide working capital initiatives in coordination with different functions such as regions, logistics, purchasing and treasury.
· Track performance against financial plans and provides financial transparency to management and business stakeholders,
· Define overall management reporting of the business and prepare presentations for the executive team and the Board.
· Foster automation & deployment of an efficient high-performing finance set up.
· Monitor and lead the continuous risk assessment and further develop the risk report.
Education
· University degree with focus on finance / controlling or equivalent experience.
· MBA desired but not essential.
Experience
· The role could be appropriate for someone with experience as a Regional CFO or Business Unit CFO looking to step into a global role.
· Several years of experience in a finance function in an international environment.
· Experience of improving bottom line performance through operational efficiency, driving process optimization, etc.
· Excellent conceptual and analytical skills ability to seeing the whole-picture and keen to deep-dive into the details if required and derive actions from facts and figures
· Strong communication skills and ability to further consensus in decisional process and challenging/multi-stakeholders initiatives
· Set the right priorities in an diverse, multi-business, international and fast growing group to optimize value creation; be able to cope with change at a fast pace.
· Experience in handling ERP systems. SAP FI/CO, SAP BW is an advantage.
· Fluent in English, German and any other language is an advantage.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. The Straumann Group is proud to be an equal opportunities organization. We truly value diversity in all its forms recognizing that to truly deliver value to our patients, we must reflect our patient diversity in our internal workforce. Together we are creating smiles and restoring confidence.
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