CSL · 2 months ago
Sr. Manager, Finance Business Partnering
Kankakee, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$130K/yr - $154K/yr
10+ years expCSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. The Senior Manager, Finance Business Partnering will partner with senior Site Leaders to provide financial analysis and insights to drive business decisions and improve financial performance.
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedical
Responsibilities
Lead Finance Business Partnering in Kankakee to support assigned Value Streams. Contribute to the development of reporting, dashboards, and analytics to ultimately drive improved decisions by understanding the financial impact of decisions
Execute KPI framework to drive accountability and financial acumen among the business partners
Prepare insightful commentary for variances to forecast and budget to support the site’s E2E leadership team. Commentary will focus on key performance drivers and actions required to mitigate risks and prevent unfavorable variance from recurring
For the assigned functions, lead the annual budget and quarterly forecast including providing insightful commentary to business partners. Lead cost center planning process for assigned cost centers and financial evaluation of targeted process improvement initiatives. Be bold and challenge the standard responses from business partners to ensure financial competitiveness for the Company
Collaborate on cost accounting activities including calculation of standard costs, manufacturing variance analysis, and provision analysis for assigned Value Streams. Collaborate with business partners to ensure yields and machine hours reflect current KPIs
Drive the improvement of existing financial systems, dashboards, processes, and procedures, and liaise with other CSL Behring sites to achieve global standardization as requested. Lead global standardization projects as requested by E2E Finance Business Partnering leader
Review financial submissions, as requested, for business cases or high value Procurement contracts. Collaborate with business partners to validate reasonableness of assumptions and valuation
Provide Finance evaluation of business improvement and growth projects including costing data for capital investment projects. Leverage FP&A resources to support development of business cases and other complex analyses and modelling
Collaborate with business partners and Finance leaders to design and presents information in ways to improve timeliness and decision-making capability of the users of the information
Drive the Value Capture and Realization process with business partners of assigned functions. Identify and evaluate cost improvement (CI) projects. Collaborate with business partners to drive timely execution of CI projects and adjust budget and forecasts accordingly. Audit financial results of CI projects after implementation
Lead the Site Finance Business Partnering team to provide required support to external auditors. Ensure site’s documentation and analyses submitted timely and completely
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or closely related degree
CPA or CMA differentiating factor
Minimum 10+ years relevant experience in financial and accounting roles including measuring and analyzing performance to budget and forecast
Minimum 7+ years onsite finance business partnering support for at least a mid-size manufacturing facility. Experience must come from being physically located at site and a member of site's leadership team
Able to demonstrate excellent business partnering skills including effectively challenging, advising, and supporting decision making through effective collaboration
Experience functioning within a global organization
Proven experience providing site leadership with financial analysis including insightful commentary and communicating in the business partner language
Demonstrated track record of effectively functioning in a team. Must maintain discretion, confidentiality, and maintain composure and professionalism during collaboration
Experience engaging diverse stakeholders at varying levels within the organization
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
MBA preferable
Preference given for lean manufacturing and product costing experience
Company
CSL
CSL develops innovative biotherapies and influenza vaccines that save lives, and help people with life-threatening medical conditions.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$111M2013-12-20Acquired
2004-02-06Post Ipo Equity· $111M
1994-06-03IPO
Leadership Team
Jeffrey Ball
Chief Sustainability Officer
Joy Linton
Strategic Advisor
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