Finance Business Partner: Automation & Tooling

at  SHL Medical AG

SHL Medical is the world-leading solution provider in the design, development, and manufacturing of advanced drug delivery systems with more than 5000 employees worldwide. Our customers include top pharmaceutical and biotech companies from around the globe that require innovative devices such as auto-injectors or pen injectors to effectively deliver their drugs. Headquartered in Switzerland since late 2018, with sites in Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of Finance experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment
• Solid experience with project costing and percentage of completion
• “Story-telling” skills, being able to translate financial data into a management presentation
• Excellent problem-solving skills and solution-oriented mindset
• Comfortable working in a changing and dynamic environment
• Being responsible, resilient and stress resistant

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Energetic leader able to gather energy and build followership
• Strong team player with excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to gain trust at all levels of the organisation
• Positive, “can-do” attitude

• Finance Business partner to the Automation and Tooling Solutions (leadership) team
• Lead and develop a small Finance team, building talent and engagement
• Develop, distribute and discuss monthly financial reporting packages, focusing on project and manufacturing performance, tracking productivity, material expenses, operating expenses, absorption, etc.
• Provide monthly reporting data (e.g. explanation of actuals, variance analysis vs budget, updated financial forecasts, CAPEX, working capital, cash balance, etc.) in time and according to the provided template to support the preparation of the group’s monthly management report
• Provide the Business Unit heads with solid data, key metrics and in-depth analyses to support decision making and ad-hoc reporting requests
• Establish and track the Business Unit performance (projects profitability, cost overrun anticipation and mitigation, new revenue streams design, milestone billing and WC optimisation)
• Lead the BU financial Analysis and Planning cycles: project variance analysis, Percentage of Completion (PoC) margin reconciliation, continuous improvement, deferred revenue, working capital targets, etc.
• Own the Automation & Tooling budgeting process to assure OPEX, PEX, CAPEX are budgeted at the right level of granularity and within the correct functional area and correct cost center in time and ensure alignment with the budgeted headcount numbers.
• Calculate activity rates based on budgeted numbers, to calculate budgeted project Sales and COGS for the Automation and Tooling organization as well as expected over/under-absorption by cost center
• Detect and discuss potentials in the business area with the relevant stakeholders to improve performance, efficiency or results
• Drive carve-out of automation and tooling segments and integration of newly created legal entities with newly acquired subsidiaries
• Implementation of functional P&L, set-up and testing of new company codes in SAP, creation of new cost centers and allocating together with HR headcount to the right functional area and cost centers
• Implementation of Percentage of Completion accounting for Automation and Tooling projects, including monthly planned cost updates on the full project portfolio to comply with financial accounting standards and allow proper revenue recognition
• Implement intercompany pricing process and governance for automation and tooling organization to offer services to Medical business segment, including a solid quotation and invoicing process
• Support process standardisation across our Project Finance processes and engage across functions