Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
Company Overview
Build a career powered by innovations that matter. At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific. Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.
Business Unit Overview
This position is part of Novanta’s Advanced Surgery Business Unit. Advanced Surgery a medical device group, playing an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations. You will be part of the Adv Surgery Finance team and reporting to the Head of FP&A based in Berlin Germany. This role is located in Check Republic (Brno) with travel requirements in Berlin Germany , and in the USA where the two other R&D centers are located.
Position Details
Within the Finance department, the mission of R&D Controller is to provide the Business Unit with detailed financial analysis, scenario & reporting to support decisions making and help reaching the company’s objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

• You are responsible for all financial controlling activities within Research and Development group throughout the full life of the project, from pre studies to development up to business valuation.
• Being a key partner and contributor across a highly matrixed, cross-functional project community, you support the R&D activities by shaping and owning reporting processes.
• You participate in the monthly report out by representing Finance for projects cost valuations.
• Lead the R&D financial planning and reporting : work closely with PMO by providing proactive support on budgeting and forecasting processes, costs monitoring, quarterly closing and reporting, as well as act as a finance business partner on R&D activities.
• Own and deliver monthly financial reporting to Project teams
• Provide financial & reporting expertise to the R&D teams, support and challenge them to implement efficiency measures, new metrics and spending management incl. Mitigation
• Pro-actively enhance the reporting processes and tools to enable project transparency and a more effective decision making on development activities.
• Collaborate with Business and PMO on projects valuation simulations using NPV tools, ensure alignment with objectives of all stakeholders and track the value creation vs target for new projects

Skills and Requirements:

• Being an excellent communicator is essential for the success in this role, including communicating numbers and data to non-financial people.
• You are motivated by working in a fast-paced environment and by discovering new ways to optimize processes and tools.
• Bachelor of Arts or Master’s Degree in Finance, Economics or similar
• Min. 3-5 years of experience working with project controlling in the Healthcare industry
• Solid expertise in developing financial processes in budgeting, forecasting and longterm planning, driving alignment across multiple functions
• Experience building and coordinating project valuations scenarios
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills
• Used to daily work with an ERP, MS Office Excel, Power point
• Fluent in English , Czech preferred but not mandatory
• Ability to manage complexity and deliver high quality results under time constraints

Benefits:

• Extra week of vacation (25 days/year)
• 5 sick days per calendar year
• 1 day of paid time off for charitable activities/year
• Flexi Pass vouchers with a nominal value of 1000 CZK/month
• Contribution to supplementary pension insurance 1000 CZK/month (after the probationary period)
• Flexible working hours (core 10 – 15:00)
• Every year, wages are reassessed from 1 April
• Meal vouchers in the form of a flat rate – monetary value (123,90 CZK/day)
• Monetary allowance for working from home
• MultiSport for only 300 CZK/month
• Bonuses for recommending a new employee up to CZK 110,000
• Free refreshments at the workplace (juice, hot drinks – coffee, tea; healthy snacks and fruit/vegetables 2 times a week)
• Training, language courses, career advancement
• Dog-friendly office, Family-friendly environment
• Corporate events – Summer Party, Christmas Party, Family Day, SportDay, Board Game Afternoon, Meet & Greet and more
• Free parking for employees and shower at the workplace for athletes

Travel Requirements:

• This role is located in Brno, Czech Republic with minimum attendance in the office 3 days per week
• This role requires to travel 2 /3 days per month in Berlin Germany to collaborate with R&D team.
• The role requires to travel to USA once or twice a year for 3 days to collaborate with R&D team.

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
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• You are responsible for all financial controlling activities within Research and Development group throughout the full life of the project, from pre studies to development up to business valuation.
• Being a key partner and contributor across a highly matrixed, cross-functional project community, you support the R&D activities by shaping and owning reporting processes.
• You participate in the monthly report out by representing Finance for projects cost valuations.
• Lead the R&D financial planning and reporting : work closely with PMO by providing proactive support on budgeting and forecasting processes, costs monitoring, quarterly closing and reporting, as well as act as a finance business partner on R&D activities.
• Own and deliver monthly financial reporting to Project teams
• Provide financial & reporting expertise to the R&D teams, support and challenge them to implement efficiency measures, new metrics and spending management incl. Mitigation
• Pro-actively enhance the reporting processes and tools to enable project transparency and a more effective decision making on development activities.
• Collaborate with Business and PMO on projects valuation simulations using NPV tools, ensure alignment with objectives of all stakeholders and track the value creation vs target for new project