Finance Business Partner and Controllership Sr Manager

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.  

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards.  We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

What You Can Expect

The Finance Business Partner and Controllership Sr Manager will be a senior finance partner and trusted advisor to a country, function, or business unit leadership team. This role is responsible for supporting business performance, profitable growth, cash generation, and decision making through financial insight, planning, and analysis. This role will also partner with the Controllership and FP&A functions to execute the financial strategy, monitor financial performance, and help maintain an effective internal control environment.

How You'll Create Impact

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Face of Finance

• Serves as a key Finance partner for a specific country, business unit, or function.
• Leads country/ business unit by supporting in areas such as: commercial growth strategy, sales channel optimization, working capital management, and capital related analysis and decisions.
• Supports teams with significant/ ad-hoc issues at country/ BU level, that cannot be resolved through standard operating procedures.
• Conduct Business Owners needs analysis: Proactively engage with Business Owners to understand their requirements, pain points, and goals. Conduct in-depth needs analysis to identify areas where Finance can add value and address their specific challenges.
• Supports delivery of P&L targets by partnering with Business Owners and functional leaders to develop driver-based top-line, resourcing, financial, and ROI models and to help advance key operational initiatives.
• Builds a strong understanding of the ZB Growth Model (including pricing, sales channels, working capital management, and capital decisions) and recommends how to prioritize and adapt growth levers for the business.
• Work closely with FP&A function and business teams (Pricing, IBP, etc.) to forecast and manage results, improve transparency, and maintain a single source of the truth amongst all stakeholders.
• Provide business recommendations by using clear and effective presentation and communication.
• Create and communicate presentations that engage and effectively story tell, to allow stakeholders to make effective decisions.

What Makes You Stand Out

Results Driven

• Supports accountability for business financial performance and serves as a finance advisor to key business stakeholders.
• Reviews management reporting outputs with country/ cluster level business leaders (e.g., RGL, MBR, QFR, QLT, Close, Regional Reviews).
• Supports the long-range plan process with the business and provides analysis and recommendations.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly results and communicate messages to senior management (finance and non/finance), including management reports packages, risks and opportunity assessment, business trends and make recommendations to help improve the business’ growth and profitability.

Continuous Improvement

• Continually assesses opportunities to improve BP delivery, optimize talent and leverage technology to improve efficiencies.
• Bring a continuous improvement mindset, consistently evaluating current processes/procedures and seeking opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Create, track, and refine Finance KPIs into relevant key metrics to drive modeling and analysis, build and maintain KPI dashboards and reports to provide insight into performance, and review these dashboards regularly with Business Owners and functional leadership to identify leading indicators and emerging risks.
• Perform Financial scenario modeling and build business cases for ROI, resource allocation, price volume, etc.
• Stay informed about market and economic trends: Stay up to date with the latest trends, innovations, and best practices. Leverage this knowledge to anticipate market changes and provide valuable insights to Business Owners.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and might not necessarily comprise all of the essential functions for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Your Background

• Required Education/Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of applicable experience

• Preferred Education/Experience: 

Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, business management or equivalent. 8+ years of

experience in Finance, including several years of experience as a finance business

       partner. Ideally with a Master degree in finance.

Advanced level of English - required

Expected Areas of Competence (knowledge, skills and abilities)

• Strong strategic planning and problem-solving skills to develop action plans and solutions that improve business performance
• Advanced financial acumen and ability to speak to standard reporting and planning processes
• Ability to build confidence with key stakeholders, including commercial and functional leaders at country and regional level
• Capability to work with and influence different functional groups to achieve the desired business outcome (influencing skills)
• Strong leadership and prioritization skills to manage business partnering work effectively
• Acts as a role model within the finance organization and promotes sound business partnering practices
• Strong ability to facilitate open dialogues with business/industry leaders and finance leaders to ensure that all perspectives are being heard and respected
• Has strong relationships with business leaders and is able to build and maintain new and existing relationships
• Adapts approach, communication style, and priorities to match changing business needs and situations
• Challenges teams and business on the notion of “we have always done it this way” and “we have tried that in the past” and drive process improvement
• Motivated/results driven and self-starter with the ability to impact others
• Strong understanding of financial and business modeling

Travel Expectations

Less than 20%

Modelo Hibrido

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability