Sr Manager - Finance

Key Responsibilities

• Manage post-closing finance relationships and serve as liaison for management of subsidiaries, recent acquisitions and partnerships.
• Partner closely with business leaders to define and prioritize most attractive segments to enter within new and existing markets.
• Manage the Finance functions to ensure the identification, development, and implementation of cost-effective systems and efficient financial operations across the assigned business unit and within the broader Henry Schein Finance function.
• Pro-actively analyze profitability, sales growth, headcount and expenses, investigate unusual items and prepare monthly performance reports to management.
• Provide recommendations to management, based on sound financial understanding of each P&L, balance sheet and cash flow effect on business decisions.
• Responsible for the budgeting and forecast preparation and drives continuous improvement of forecast quality and financial performance through coordination with business leaders on financial issues impacting their budgets.
• Reviews and reports projections of sales and profit against actual figures, budgeted expenses against final totals and investigates variances to determine their underlying business causes.
• Suggests and assists in the implementation of methods to improve the financial performance of the business.
• Provides timely and accurate analyses of budgets, financial reports, and trends to assist Business Leadership in decision-making.
• Proactively identifies root causes, trends, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions for management.
• Manages the preparation of all financial reports and financials closes, including income statements, balance sheets, reports to stakeholders, KPIs, reporting and understands activities behind the numbers to drive appropriate business decisions.
• Ensures all financial reporting is consistent with proper accounting and regulatory requirements.
• Own and evaluate cost accounting and product costing to ensure inventory values, margins, and COGS accurately reflect the business.
• Analyze key cost drivers and variances, including material, labor, overhead, inventory, and purchase price, and work with Operations and Supply Chain to address issues.
• Oversees financial and management reporting across business units to ensure accuracy.
• Provide oversight of financial modelling to support pricing, investments, hiring, capital expenditures, product initiatives, operational changes and organic and M&A growth opportunities.
• Provide financial oversight of AP, AR, billing, collections, and related activities ensuring appropriate controls and accountability.
• Own the Finance and Accounting workstream for ERP implementation, including requirements, process design, controls, testing, and implementation readiness.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as required.

Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Experience working in a global, matrixed organizational structure.
• Understanding of GAAP
• ERP implementation experience required; NetSuite experience strongly preferred.
• Strong commitment to financial accuracy and data integrity is required
• Significant experience in product development, product launch and product lifecycle management
• Mastery of financial management and reporting requirements associated with HCP KOL partnerships
• Use skill and influence to develop company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways
• Project management, consultative skills and ability to manage a budget
• Ability to cultivate and develop lasting internal and external customer relations

General Skills & Competencies

• Excellent management and leadership skills and ability to attract, retain, motivate, develop and mentor team members for high performance
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and ability to resolve disputes effectively
• Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills
• Outstanding independent decision making, analysis and problem solving skills
• Understand, interpret and act on financial information that contributes to business profitability
• Ability to plan and manage complex and successful projects; understand available resources, develop timeline, budget and assign areas of responsibility
• Lead teams to achieve company goals and solve complex business issues in creative and effective ways
• Outstanding planning and organizational skills and techniques
• Communicate effectively with senior management and key stakeholders
• Strong negotiating skills and ability to effectively manage internal and external relationships
• Ability to influence, build relationships, understand organizational complexities, manage conflict and navigate politics
• Broad and wide-range of professional and managerial skills with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures
• Ability to lead and develop virtual teams
• Outstanding in multiple technical and business skills

Minimum Work Experience

Typically 10 or more years of increasing responsibility and complexity in terms of any applicable professional experience; 3 or more years of management experience.

Preferred Education

Typically a Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Finance or Accounting. MBA is preferred.

Travel / Physical Demands

Travel typically less than 10%. Office environment. No special physical demands required.