FP&A Manager

4 weeks ago


Wilmslow, United Kingdom Waters Full time
Overview

Waters are seeking an experienced FP&A Manager to join the team, this role can be located at the Wilmslow, Pars or Eschborn offices.

The EMEA FP&A Manager plays a critical role in financial planning, analysis, and reporting within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region. This position involves managing a team of 4-5 professionals and focuses on enhancing efficiency, ensuring accurate financial reporting, and providing strategic insights to drive business success.

This is a phenomenal opportunity to join a dynamic organisation that is embracing technology to drive process improvement. The role will also play a role in supporting the business and gives great opportunities to learn about our business and develop opportunities for career advancement.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities include:

Team Leadership and Development:

Lead and mentor a team of 4-5 FP&A professionals helping them to develop.

Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the team.

Financial Planning and Forecasting:

Develop and maintain the EMEA financial planning process.

Collaborate with business regions to create annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-term financial plans.

Supervise performance against targets and recommend adjustments as needed.

Efficiency Improvement:

Identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve efficiency in financial planning, analysis, and reporting.

Implement best practices to optimise resource allocation and reduce manual effort.

Accurate Reporting:

Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting for EMEA operations.

Oversee the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.

Validate data accuracy and consistency across various reports.

Business Insights and Decision Support:

Provide actionable insights to senior management based on financial analysis.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support strategic decision-making.

Conduct variance analysis and recommend corrective actions.

Forecast Accuracy:

Continuously assess the accuracy of financial forecasts.

Work closely with business partners to refine assumptions and enhance forecasting models.

Ad Hoc Analysis and Projects:

Undertake special projects related to financial modelling, cost analysis, and investment evaluations.

Respond to ad hoc requests from leadership.

Qualifications

The successful candidate is likely to show the following behaviours:

  • A self-starting mind-set, able to look ahead, innovate and continually improve agility and adaptable - is comfortable that change is a constant and can adapt actions and thinking to suit different conditions or situations.
  • Collaboration & team-work - possess the ability to listen, share information and works optimally with team members to accomplish goals.
  • Communication - able to express ideas clearly, effectively and with meaning. Enables effective communication across the function or team. Ability to influence by communicating clear facts in a convincing manner.
  • Creative thinker/Innovator - Have the ability to look for alternative approaches. Always willing to look at something differently, constantly asking what if? Including the ability to apply creative and unconventional solutions to sophisticated problems.
  • Excellent organisation skills: ability to plan and organise work so that it is efficient and effective.
Knowledge, Education and Experience
  • A qualified accountant or hold a master's degree in finance/accounting.
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Expert knowledge in Office 365, including Excel, business warehouse and Power BI
  • SAP.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and additional European language would be beneficial but not essential.
  • Proven experience in a people management role.
  • Project management expertise or experience would be an advantage.
  • Technology Savvy, experience of working with AI or RPA in a Finance environment.
  • Extensive experience working in a commercial environment preferably in the Life sciences industry.
Location & Travel:

This position can be based anywhere in Europe close to an international airport and a Waters facility. The person must be prepared to travel internationally not only during working hours.

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to work flexibly. Please don't hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around hybrid working and flexibility; we'll do our best to support you.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
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