Senior Finance Analyst

The FP&A Centre of Excellence (COE) exists to deliver quality insights and performance management that help Smith & Nephew deliver the Life Unlimited purpose to our stakeholders. The Centre of Excellence was created as a world-class, integrated FP&A organisation. We act as one awesome, collaborative team proud to partner with the business and run efficient processes with effective tools.

Within the COE, the International Business Unit Cluster FP&A Analyst is responsible for providing high-quality decision support and insight to senior cluster leadership  Business Unit within International—for example, Finance Analyst Orthopaedics for particular geographies in Europe or Asia.

The position will support delivery of all core FP&A partnering activities, built on the foundations of delivering the annual budget, forecasts and appraisal cycles. In the role, you will work directly support your equivalent Finance Business Partner across all FP&A and many commercial business teams.

Outside the direct business team, you must work closely across Controllers & GBS to ensure end-to-end finance delivery to the management. Success in this role will require leveraging technology, a bias to establishing robust and documented processes, and having the resilience to work through standard processes maintained within the team.

Reporting to the FP&A Director – International Business Unit, you will be expected to contribute to help continuously improving FP&A and budgeting processes. You will also have a dotted line to your finance business partner and must ensure seamless delivery in a matrix organisation. You will role model genuine collaboration, enterprise-first thinking and a learning mindset – this is how you need and want to work every day. Flexibility will be required to balance and adjust priorities across shorter- and longer-term delivery requirements.

Responsibilities:

Core:

• Produce insightful reports that facilitate decision-making and highlight opportunities and risks.
• Perform analysis to provide insight, identify and quantify opportunities or understand risks.
• Understand market sales and pricing trends and support the business on return on investment analysis. 
• Driving the budgeting and forecasting processes for your business unit geographies
• Working with the Cluster FBP to deliver all short- and long-term financial targets. Monitoring and assessing progress against the financial targets established in annual budgets and strategic plans.
• Ensure variances to forecast are thoroughly explained and opportunities and risks are identified. 
• Prepare/Submit journals during month-end process as needed.
• Provide ad-hoc assistance with projects as required.

Processes, Standardisation & Controls

• Help define strong practices in the way Smith & Nephew delivers the FP&A processes
• Get the basics right - make the necessary improvement in data quality and content of reports/analysis to support the business.   
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities
• Digitalisation – support efficiency and insight through the adoption and implementation of digital-spanning visualisation, processing and analysis tools 
• Comply with information management practices - ensure confidential information is safeguarded.  
• Ensure operation/execution of any key /non-key controls, including SOX controls, in your areas of accountability.   

Requirements:

• Education: Educated to Degree level
• Licenses/ Certifications: CPA / CIMA / ACCA is preferred
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with at least 3 years in a relevant role.
• Experience in supporting finance leaders within an organisation and developing strategic plans, budgets and forecasts.
• Progressive experience within a commercial/manufacturing financial environment with cost control responsibilities.
• A working knowledge of consolidation / BI systems essential with HYPERION HFM/COGNOS & SAP ERP is advantageous

Competences:

• Strong analytical skills
• Strong passion for business and business trends
• Business Finance experience
• Strong accounting and finance knowledge
• Hands-on attitude
• Good project management and presentation skills
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and act in the face of uncertainty.
• Passion to continuously learn and acquire knowledge.
• Confidence to intervene and challenge the business when appropriate.
• Fluent English (C1+)

Physical Demands: Office-based role

Travel Requirements:  <10%

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• Inclusion, Diversity and Equity: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity, Learn more about our Employee Inclusion Groups on our website (https://www.smith-nephew.com/)

• Your Future: Generous annual bonus and pension Schemes, Save As You Earn share options.

• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Vacation and Time Off, Paid Holidays and Paid Volunteering Hours, so we can give back to our communities!

• Your Wellbeing: Private Health and Dental plans, Healthcare Cash Plans, Income Protection, Life Assurance and much more.

• Flexibility: Hybrid Working Model (For most professional roles).

• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised, Mentorship.