Corporate Fp&a Manager

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. The Straumann Group employs approximately 8500 people worldwide. Its products, solutions and services are available in more than 100 countries.

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 the continues evolution of the Finance model supporting a broad range of strategic investments. The organization is innovating with new go to market strategies, evaluating M&A opportunities, digitalizing consumer solutions and globalizing core support function activities.

THE CORPORATE FP&A AND CONTROLLING DEPARTEMENT
The Corporate FP&A and Controlling department is the finance business partner for the Executive Management Board (EMB), the CFO and CEO. It is the central information hub within the Straumann Finance organization and drives sustainable financial improvements and ensures 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 the Board of Directors. The department further develops cross company controlling topics (such as benchmarking or cross-regional business analysis) and is owner of global controlling processes such as budgeting and forecasting. It increases profitability by driving cost saving, lean, innovation, pricing and customer profitability initiatives across different functions and regions in our matrix organization.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
You are an experienced, forward-looking Corporate FP&A Senior Manager leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic analysis across the organization. This role is instrumental in driving data-driven decision-making, improving financial performance, and supporting executive leadership with actionable insights. You will drive key projects including the transformation of our existing financial planning processes, the implementation of a new financial planning tool, or enhancing our performance management reporting. As a leader of change you show agility and resilience in driving this transformation. By coordinating activities on a global level, you are comfortable acting in a matrix environment and managing complex global initiatives. You have finance leadership experience, are used to interact with C-level and understand the complexities of manufacturing / production equally.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Manage the mid-term plan, annual budget and forecast calendar in alignment with key stakeholders and coordinate the global financial planning process with regions, business units and functions
- Orchestrates the management reporting to the EMB, Board of Directors and supports in preparing external investors reporting & analysis.
- Conduct in depth financial analysis, develop robust financial models and prepare clear executive presentations that simplify complex topics to support strategic decision-making for top management.
- Championing groupwide OPEX (incl. FTE’s) in close collaboration with regions, functions and other key stakeholders. Drive OPEX management by improving visibility, forecasting, and analysis of results and key metrics while advising senior management on insights and recommended actions.
- Drive finance transformation initiatives such as the new planning tool implementation, enhanced management performance reporting, and others
- Help to create effective performance metrics to drive accountability and ownership within the FP&A teams, regions and business units.
- Support in continuous improvement in FP&A processes, tools, and reporting systems.

The position reports to the Head of Group FP&A

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or CFA preferred.
- Professional accounting/finance qualification (e.g., CPA, ACCA, CIMA) is a plus.
- Minimum of 10 years overall Finance experience of which minimum 5 years in a Group FP&A position in a bigger corporate organization.
- Results focused with the ability to work independently, take ownership and drive initiatives to meet targets and deadlines
- Position requires excellent analytical, communication and presentations skills along with being a team player with a strong customer focus and a result driven attitude
- Ability to structure, manage, and coordinate complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders even in stressful situati