AB Biotek Senior Finance Business Partner

PURPOSE

• Support a recent acquisition and be the lead for ABB in the North America region, including key people, markets, and operations. Develop insight into business performance issues, and opportunities. To condense, summarise and prioritize information.
• Bring high-quality finance reports, insight, and recommendations to support business decision making and performance management.
• Develop and continually raise the bar in terms of the quality of financial analysis provided. Furthermore, to seek to improve efficiency and control over the services provided including identifying and implementing opportunities to automate / systemise.
  
  

Finance Business Partner - Omega Yeast (40%)

• Generate and present insightful, concise, and accurate information regarding the actual and predicted performance of the business to senior management.
• Partner with the Global Business Director, as well as site leads to drive key performance improvements, as well as supporting strategic decision making through the integration and growth phase of the acquisition.
• Provision of reporting, planning & analysis to support the BUGM, working closely with other finance contacts (global, regional, site and Head Office) and non-finance (Project Management, Marketing, Technical Leads, regional and global commercial teams).
• Performance management for Omega Yeast business including:
• Reporting, quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and 5 Year Plans.
• Supporting analysis, commentary, and presentations.
• Enabling tools including sales reports, opportunity trackers, and pricing trackers.
• Monitoring progress versus incentive targets.
• Strategic analysis support including sales volumes and prices by competitor / market / product (Photo Visions).
• Act as Omega Yeast Manufacturing finance lead responsible for creating best practices, toolkits for site performance, product costing and site cost insights and implementing in ABB sites.
• To create and provide regular timely ad hoc updates to YPMS, BPM projects.
• To prepare and present the most up to date business plans, future outlook and performance at regular “Strategy People Delivery” meetings.
• Monitor, understand and challenge ABB plans and initiatives through Business Project Management trackers.
• To prepare, review, challenge, and facilitate the pricing request process prior to final authorization.
• Point of contact to keep, track, and analyse all pricing information to support the business.
  

Finance Business Partner - Global End Use Market (25%)

• Have depth and breadth of understanding of what is happening within the EUM globally, including building robust knowledge of underlying performance, providing insightful, concise, timely and accurate information.
• Working closely with global, regional and site finance, as well as global EUM team including marketing, technical leads and project managers, support the BU Global Business Director, through the provision of actual performance reporting and planning and analysis:
• Reporting, quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and 5 Year Plans.
• Supporting analysis, commentary, and presentations.
• Enabling tools Monitoring progress versus incentive targets.
• Act as Finance lead for large capex investments across the beer EUM, responsible for the development of project governance, business case, capex submission and preparing for presentations to ABM and ABF Management.
  
  

To prepare and present the most up to date business plans, future outlook and performance to the appropriate BUGM and FD – at regular “Strategy People Delivery” meetings.

ABB North America Regional Finance Lead (25%)

• To have depth and breadth of understanding of what is happening within and around the business, including insight into underlying performance.
• Support the other FBPs in the ABB Finance team, with localised insight and knowledge from a NA perspective, on all ABB BUs.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to the team and Finance Director based on a NA regional viewpoint.
• Act as a liaison where necessary on key ABB projects centric to the regional strategy (CAPEX, expansion, development, and innovation), providing ongoing support for all key projects in the region.
• To generate and present insightful, concise, and accurate information regarding the actual and predicted performance of the business to senior management.
• Support key ABB stakeholders where applicable in the strategic analysis support including sales volumes and prices by competitor / market / product (Photo Visions).
• To prepare and present the most up to date business plans, future outlook and performance to the appropriate BUGM and FD – at regular “Strategy People Delivery” meetings.
• To monitor, understand and challenge ABB plans and initiatives through Business Project Management trackers.
• To prepare, review, challenge, and facilitate the pricing request process prior to final authorisation by BUGM / FD.
• Point of contact to keep, track, and analyse all pricing information to support regional EUM.
  
  

Technology Director ABB (10%)

• Act as the finance contact, supporting the Global Technology Centre, monitoring operating cost, and leading the development of business cases and project governance relating to CAPEX projects, including preparation of presentations to management.
  
  

Qualifications

• QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
  
  

Essential

• An accounting qualification.
• At least 8 years of post-qualification finance experience.
• Experience in business performance management including reporting and forecasting.
• Track record of providing analysis and insight to support business decision-making.
• Commercial acumen.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience in working with remote team / stakeholders.
• Experience working in a flexible networked organisation structure.
• Experience working in manufacturing industry.