The Business Unit Finance (BUF) team partners with commercial leadership to shape strategy, drive portfolio/pricing decisions, and lead/participate in management processes that supports & enables us to be the fastest growing medical device company in Japan. Our role is to surface the right facts, past learnings, and partner with key stakeholders to drive decisions necessary to deliver market leading results. We strive to work closely with our functional and regional partners to understand the needs & challenges while ensuring that what we implement will drive value for our patients/stakeholders.
The FP&A Finance Manager will oversee overall financial performance of Med Tech Japan in terms of PL management and provide financial insights to ensure growth, profitability, and integrity across the company.

The role will involve working closely with finance counterparts within the Japan team, as well as across functional teams including R&D, CS&CE, and our finance regional office. He/She will collaborate with GS, Tax, and compliance team to ensure appropriate financial statements and internal controls.

Key business partners:

• Function senior leaders
• Regional finance leaders
• GS, Tax, and compliance team

Financial planning and Reporting:

• Lead Strategic Planning/3yr Growth Plan financial cycle for the Med Tech business
• Facilitate clear representation of the business’ actual performance, future plans, risks and opportunities.
• Provide planning inputs including insights from macroeconomics/ Reimbursement / competitor analysis
• Create clarity on source of growth, innovation pipeline sufficiency and resource needs
• Drive investment resource allocation in the right direction (Franchise and Med Tech)
• Lead the entire Business Planning cycles by collaborating with the FP&A team and franchise Controllers with support regional FP&A (COE) team. Influence goal setting for the franchises, including resource recommendations across activity types and businesses.
• Overall coordinate, consolidate, and review all franchise data for each budget cycle submissions, adhoc report s/analys e s.
• Partner with regional FP&A (COE) to ensure timely, accurate & appropriate regular reporting and communication to Regional / Local management including monthly sales dashboard, GP commentary, price and volume change analysis, NPI tracking, franchise P&L etc.
• Collaborate to improve current practices by driving better accuracy, efficiency and simplicity.

Business and Financial Projects and Initiatives:

• Support company-wide initiatives, including projects in CSCE, to drive growth and profitability.
• Provide insights in some of cross-cluster/market initiatives including cross-cluster finance initiatives.
• Support appropriate planning and execution of the company rebate programs, sales incentive plans, and other programs to ensure financial compliance and effective resource allocation.
• Plan and implement educational trainings to the Med Tech Japan employees to improve financial acumen and compliance in the organization.
• Support global financial project (Signi Fi) as appropriate.
• Support/lead adhoc projects.

Compliance and Audit:

• Responsible for ensuring a strong compliant environment and driving this culture across the organization.
• Provide support to business partners and compliance team to ensure compliance (SOX, HCC, FCPA, Taxation etc.)
• Support both internal audit (SOX, FCPA etc.) and external audit (PWC, tax etc.)

Qualifications

A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required, preferably with a major in Accounting or Finance. An MBA, CPA, CMA, and/or other advanced degree(s) or financial certification(s) is preferred. A minimum of 5+ years of finance business experience is required.

Candidate must have:

• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to inspire, motivate, and empower people
• Strong commitment to compliance and being skilled in accounting and internal controls
• Ability to effectively influence and shape senior level business decisions
• Strong communication and presentation skills both in English and Japanese
• Strong focus on the customer with demonstrated results building partnerships and collaborating at all levels and multiple functions/affiliates.
• Strong business acumen coupled with strategic mindset
• Experience leading implementation of successful process improvements.
• The location of this position is in Japan.

Indicators of Success:

• Independently drive analysis that helps bring clarity to abstract problems.
• Persistent in idea generation, risk assessment and implementation.
• Visualize and addresses the root cause of opportunities and issues.
• Frame and communicate issues and solutions effectively.
• Take a broad business perspective when making recommendations.
• Develop strong working relationships with stakeholders. Demonstrate ability to achieve integration & alignment, push back when appropriate, and manage conflicts & challenges.
• Influence and impact others through building and defending arguments, challenge in a provocative and respectful manner, facilitate a decision and drive action to meet objectives.
• Demonstrate care for your staff both personally and professionally. Demonstrating ability to develop a team.