Finance Business Partner

at  ConvaTec

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of atrisk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec’s revenues in 2023 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com
Our search for better is changing the lives of our customers. It’s changing the careers of our people too –creating new challenges and opportunities all the time. We’re a business that never stands still. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Finance Business Partner, and you won’t either.
This is a new key dedicated role within the Global Quality & Operations (GQO) Finance team, an approximate $1B operation including capital expenditure with significant strategic ambitions, across a network of 8 plants world-wide. Acting as co-pilot to the VP of Direct Procurement and External Manufacturing, your key accountability is to partner with your business partner to drive performance outcomes against plans, forecasts, and strategic objectives. The Direct Procurement & External Manufacturing Team has an annual procurement budget of ~ $370m. It is our single largest opportunity to drive productivity gains year on year within GQO. This is an individual contributor role, which may or may not have line manager responsibilities in the future and reports to the VP Finance GQO. You will be a trusted and relied upon partner, respected for your commercial acumen and your ability to provide succinct but powerful alanlysi and recommendations, with actionable insight.
You will be the face of Finance for your business stakeholders, connecting them, where appropriate, with your finance colleagues within Plant Finance Teams, 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. You will be an advocate for the Finance Service Delivery Model, helping your stakeholders understand the new ways of working in Finance.
You will be a leader within the Finance organization, pro-actively sharing your business knowledge and commercial acumen with Plant Finance Teams and GBS FP&A team members to build enduring capability for our GQO Team.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Position may require travel from time to time (maximum 15%) – visiting new suppliers, plants and external manufacturing partners.