Finance Business Partner

Job Summary:

The position works closely with the Finance Business Partner (BP) Manager, the plant manager and the leadership team in driving key initiatives and helping the company to achieve its goals and maximize returns on investment. The BP will use data as a strategic asset to provide decision support, accurate planning and forecasting, and operational productivity and efficiency analysis. Further, this position will ensure accuracy and completeness in income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement planning and forecasting as well as timely variance analysis.

Your Role:

• Analyze financial results and identify and communicate deviations to plan and forecast. Make recommendations for potential solution and improvements. Promote the active use of financial data to drive business success, and continuously identify and make visible all potential risks and opportunities.
• Provide trusted finance decision support, including regular and ad hoc analysis to key stakeholders. Deliver insight into trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Actively collaborate with accounting, shared service, treasury, and tax peers to ensure finance & accounting processes are executed and the function achieves its objectives.
• Identify / highlight performance trends, high & low performing products. Recommend and target actions and projects in collaboration with management team to improve product volumes and profitability.
• Support quarterly / 90 day forecast and monthly outlook processes.
• Ensure forecast output is timely and thoroughly delivered.
• Identify and develop key actions in partnership with management team required to achieve forecast (addressing gaps in performance).
• Strike a pragmatic balance between risk and opportunity, ensuring an acceptable variance to forecast in actual.
• In collaboration with management team, ensure actions are clearly identified, continuous improvement projects executed and delivered to meet objectives. Provide regular updates on performance and actions to achieve objectives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Your Profile:

• BS or BA Degree in relevant field
• Finance experience in an industrial manufacturing environment preferably as a finance business partner
• US GAAP experience
• Good level of English (written and oral)
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong computer skills in MS platforms (particularly Excel)
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred experience/Skills:

• CPA, CMA and/or MBA
• Experience working for multi-national companies
• Experience with integrated ERP and BPC

What we offer:

FLOWSERVE helps developing a systemic vision, having a full span of business and manufacturing processes typical of the multinational industrial groups, the company offers as well:

• Friendly multicultural environment and team events
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive benefits package
• Career development and training opportunities

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