Role reports to: Senior Manager/ Director FP&A
Location: Partizanske (SK) with regular EU travel (FR, SK, NL)

Purpose

We are seeking a highly analytical and proactive individual to serve as a Strategic Financial Partner to our local Finance and Manufacturing (Assembly) stakeholders. This role is pivotal in developing and standardizing comprehensive financial performance metrics, providing in-depth analytical insights into manufacturing activities and critical future investments. You will be instrumental in delivering strategic decision-support to the Senior Manager/Director FP&A and key leadership across our European operations.

Activities & Responsibilities

• Development of a standardized reporting framework in conjunction with the Sr. Manager/ Director FP&A, including further support in maturing the framework over time

• Analyze financial results, trends and metrics on a monthly basis combined with consolidated performance reporting covering all the Assembly/ Manufacturing locations (FR, SK, NL, MT)

• Lead the monthly financial review with the local Manufacturing finance teams on performance together with other areas within FP&A (Divisional and offshore team)

• Participate in the development and further support of standardized planning templates for Manufacturing, with key inputs necessary from the local finance teams (e.g. long-range plan, reforecasts and annual budget)

• Supporting decision-making across investment cases as well as other ad-hoc projects related to the Assembly/Manufacturing sites (e.g. expansions, new investments, M&A/ PMI activities as well as scenario-analysis), including developing and maintaining complex models to support the analysis

• Close collaboration with key finance and business stakeholders across the total organization including Controlling as well as FP&A (Divisional and Operations & Supply-chain domains)

• Drive continuous improvement by creating new analyses, innovating current metrics and reporting

Qualifications and work experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration or Accounting
• Advanced Finance degree/ MBA preferred 
• At least 5 years of financial planning, reporting and analysis experience.
• At least 3 years of manufacturing experience preferred.
• Experience in supporting and/or leading strategic decision-making and goal-setting initiatives.
• Experience in supporting and/or leading business improvement initiatives.
• Experience working within an international team

Additional:
• Excellent financial modeling skills
• Strong communication skills (English required, French a strong plus) and ability to influence
• Advanced skill level in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PPT). Experience with PowerBI, SQL, SAP or Tableau a plus
• Prior experience in healthcare and/or at Medline a plus
• Hybrid work model: 3 days remote
• Business travel necessary (mainly Europe)
 

ABOUT MEDLINE :

Founded in 1910 in the United States, Medline is a family-owned, global healthcare company that manufactures and distributes high-quality medical devices. Supported by more than 36,000 employees worldwide, we take pride in improving healthcare everywhere, every day to meet the needs of our customers. Medline International was founded in Europe in 2011, and since then our growth has continued to increase. Whether you are a Product Manager, Supply Chain Specialist, Sales Manager or Controller, we reward the commitment, hard work, results and success of our employees. We are passionate about achieving our mission: to provide high quality, high value-added medical products to improve the care and quality of life of our patients. Would you like to join us in this mission?

We are committed to supporting the careers of our employees. At MEDLINE, we promote and encourage internal mobility and skills development. We are present in several countries in Europe and around the world, so if you would like to develop your career in another culture, we can help you with your international mobility.

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