Finance Business Partner Analyst (M/F/T)

at  Flowserve Corporation

Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.
Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
For our Site in Ettlingen we are looking now for a Finance Business Partner Analyst (M/F/T) .
The position works closely with the plant management team in driving key initiatives and helping the company to achieve its goals and maximize returns on investment. The Business Partner Analyst 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 work with the project management organization to establish stronger financial controls on the large, highly engineered projects going through the site.

• Be part of the team that establishes process for tracking and controlling large project financials.
• Establish Project Accounting processes in Ettlingen to align with other Flowserve sites
• Work with embedded service center to establish enhanced reporting processes and procedures
• 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. Seek out ambiguity and clarify. Identify areas lacking role clarity and provide solutions, escalate where required.
• Monthly Preparing of Sales and Financial Reports for other entities
• 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.