Finance Business Partner, Canada

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**Position Overview**

This is a key role within the North America Finance team acting as a key business partner to the General Manager for Convatec Canada while reporting to Sr Director (Finance Business Partner) for AWC North America.

You are the primary interface into Finance for the business teams, providing insights, identifying new opportunities and driving business performance as you support the long-term strategy for the business. Your key accountability is to partner with your business partner(s) to drive commercial performance outcomes against plans, forecasts, and strategic objectives. This is an individual contributor role, which may or may not have line manager responsibilities. You will be a trusted and relied upon partner, respected for your commercial acumen and your ability to provide succinct but powerful storytelling, with actionable insight.

You will be the face of Finance for your business stakeholders, connecting them, where appropriate, with your finance colleagues within GBS or the wider Finance team to solve the problems that don’t fall within the accountabilities of the FBP e.g., statutory accounting, tax and controlling activities.

Within Finance, you are the business advocate, focusing beyond the finance boundaries and leading on cross-functional collaboration. Key is the overt ownership of relationships with multiple stakeholders, consistently building executive confidence by showing yourself to be an expert in the relevant market.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Partner with the business to drive sustainable and profitable growth, delivering against annual plans and strategic objectives.
- Own annual operating plans (AOP), key forecast updates, as well as monthly business results reporting, analysis and storytelling.
- Identify potential performance gaps and drive course correction through a balanced scorecard approach.
- Drive strategic allocation of resources across channels and ways to improve commercial productivity.
- Provide support on developing and tracking Investment initiatives and Product/Market launches. This includes development of business cases, and the post-event evaluation of investments.
- Review commercial agreements and provide advice for commercial negotiations including pricing.
- As a senior representative in the finance function with deep knowledge of the business, support our finance function to **grow together** by sharing knowledge, with a particular focus on building commercial acumen within our GBS teams.

**Key Requirements**
- 10-12 year of commercial finance business partner experience. MedTech or Life Science sector experience will be a plus.
- Demonstrated experience of driving business turnarounds and/or return on commercial investments
- Ability to develop effective relationships and maintain constructive communication across wide spectrum of internal stakeholders in a matrix environment.
- Ability to see the “big picture”, with attention to detail where necessary.
- Strong storytelling and networking capabilities.
- Analytical ability to assess complex business cases and commercial agreements.
- Working Knowledge of SAP, Hyperion and Power BI will be an added advantage.

**Qualifications/Education**
- Higher education in Business, Finance or Economics (desirable, but commercial experience will also be taken into consideration).
- CPA (or equivalent accounting designation) will be an additional advantage.

**Company information**

US$2bn sales revenue

10k+ employees

**Principle Contacts**
- Canada General Manager (your partner) and Canada Commercial LT
- NA Advanced Wound Care and NA Ostomy Care leadership
- FP&A COE, GBS tower leads, NA Finance Controller

**Travel Requirements**

Position may require travel up to 15%

**Languages**
- Excellent English and French in writing and speaking essential.

**Working Conditions**

Hybrid working: minimum 1 week per quarter in the office with flexibility driven by business requirements

**Pionnier de solutions médicales fiables pour améliorer les vies que nous touchons** : Convatec est une entreprise mondiale de produits et technologies médicaux, spécialisée dans les solutions pour la gestion des maladies chroniques, avec des positions de leader dans les soins avancés des plaies, les soins de stomie, les soins de continence et les soins d'infusion. Avec environ 10 000 collègues, nous fournissons nos produits et services dans près de 100 pays, unis par la promesse d'être indéfectiblement attentionnés. Nos solutions offrent une gamme d'avantages, allant de la prévention des infections et de la protection de la peau vulnérable, à l'amélioration des résultats cliniques pour les patients et à la réduction des coûts de soins.

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