Description: A Finance Analyst is responsible for collecting & analyzing financial data and making recommendations to Finance or operating leaders, serving as a business partner to the operating team to drive business initiatives, growth, business strategy, and profitability.
Key responsibilities/essential functions include:
? Partner with business leader and staff to drive operating performance & act as champion for strategic initiatives within the organization
? Together with team to support cost portfolio, with closely interaction with commercial and operation team
? Lead developing estimates, operating plans/forecasts/reviews, Growth Playbook (3-year Plan), SII (1-year Plan) for in-scope accounts
? Drive profitable growth in the region by providing analysis of results and identifying & tracking key metrics while advising the leadership team on risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions ? Drive quarterly indirect ledger ties to work with FP&A to identify areas of leakage
? Contribute to improving efficiencies and performance as well as providing quality financial information. Actively participate with Operations Management to improve productivity.
? Develop and improve financial processes: Finance reporting tools, Management reporting tools, budgeting and estimating processes, standard Production Cost set ups and analyses, Capital Investment. ? Drive standard report digitalization and assist with management reporting (regional and segment P&L’s) and communicate results to managers.
? Drive consistent usage of COFE, GLA (report net), and Business Intelligence (B.I.) tools across GE Healthcare. Develop new reports for process improvements
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration and minimum 3 years financial work experience including developing forecasts & operating plans and leading business / finance reviews
Preferred Qualifications
1. Strong analytic skills: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change
2. Clear thinking / problem solving: successfully led cross-functional projects/process improvement within operations/finance function; able to quickly grasp new ideas and identify financial risk from operation process.
3. Strong communication skills: experience working across multiple levels (including executive level), functions and regions; able to clearly communicate complex financial information in an easy to understand manner; able to deliver message effectively verbally and in writing
4. Solid PC skills: experience with financial systems/applications (i.e.: Oracle, SAP, Business Objects, etc.), strong Excel skills in data compilation and aggregation. Experience working on a data analytics tool developing project is a plus.
5. Fluency in English
6. Confidence / Assertiveness: possess influencing skills across business functions; confidence to approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend position; for example, work closely with business leaders to achieve business objectives
7. Experience working in global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows
8. Experience in a matrixed environment
9. Adaptable/flexible: being open to change (positive or negative) in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations
10. Integrity: Accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others
11. Understanding of financial compliance: SOX, GAAP
12. Graduate of GE's Financial Management Program (FMP); or graduate of other financial leadership programs