Finance Business Partner
About The Position
At Bayer, we are seeking a Finance Business Partner for the Nutritionals brand to provide end-to-end finance leadership to the US Brand Director and the multi-functional organization. This role involves partnering with the Brand Director to translate strategy into operational planning, providing decision support, including contingency planning, financial reporting, and NPD financial analysis. The incumbent will act as the Nutritionals category voice of the shareholder, leveraging market insights and business intelligence to ensure business decisions create sufficient value for sales and profit delivery to US Consumer Health. This position is a key member of the Nutritionals Steering Leadership team, shaping and supporting the team's ways of working, ensuring clear decision rights, and providing coaching to the cross-functional team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or business.
- Expertise in forecasting, target setting, management reporting, and international accounting standards.
- Strong commercial sense, preferably in Life Sciences or FMCG.
- Excellent communication, analytical, organizational, and conceptual skills.
- Strategic mindset, courage, collaboration, and cross-functional networking abilities.
Nice To Haves
- 12+ years of experience in global business finance.
Responsibilities
- Full financial management of the P&L for the brands, enabling financial business steering, management of the Brand P&L and resource allocation in line with strategic objectives.
- Translating strategy into operational plans and providing decision support, including contingency planning, financial reporting, and NPD financial analysis.
- Proposing corrective actions when there are deviations from targets.
- Ensuring business decisions create sufficient value for sales and profit delivery.
- Lead forecast development and ambition setting for upcoming years.
- Analyze brand performance, provide financial updates, and proactively address risks and opportunities.
- Deep analysis of new product development (NPD) portfolio, including value drivers and sensitivity analysis. Challenge assumptions to maximize value creation and recommend go/no-go decisions at innovation gates.
- Approve invoices, reconcile actuals, and ensure accuracy in partnership with US Central Controlling.
- Partner with Commercial Strategy and Sales Finance to develop annual trade rates and incremental investments to support retailer where-to-play / how-to-win and drive winning plans in market.
- Identify growth opportunities across SKUs and retailers based on differentiation, profit margin, distribution, and share.
- Lead financial assessment to improve retailer margin, gross margin, and consumer value.
- Present business state, financial interventions, and project updates to leadership.
- Play a central role in influencing how the team works together, ensuring decision rights are clearly defined, and providing direct coaching to the cross functional team empowering each member and helping us operate more effectively as a unit.
- Drive automation, digital transformation, and predictive analytics for efficiency and insight.
- Share best practices within the finance BP community.
- Dedicate a portion of time to float within the finance professional home, supporting broader finance initiatives and professional development.
Benefits
- health care
- vision
- dental
- retirement
- PTO
- sick leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
