Senior Finance Manager, Corporate Accounts

IDEXX Laboratories • Westbrook, ME

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About The Position

The Senior Finance Manager for Corporate Accounts is responsible for managing financial activities, modeling long-term scenarios, managing group pricing, ad-hoc analysis, sales incentive goaling, and collaborating closely to provide negotiation support for large, Enterprise-level customers. This role is the key strategic support consultant for the North American strategic sales team, and are expected to propose, brainstorm, and evaluate strategic initiatives. This position will manage staff, assign work, and evaluate results, along with becoming product and market experts to help optimize IDEXX business outcomes. The Senior Finance Manager is expected to closely review contractual arrangements and collaborate with Legal, Accounting, and Operations to ensure final contracts are aligned with proposed terms, while ensuring internal stakeholder alignment. In addition, they will use Business Insight to optimize the arrangement to help meet IDEXX's financial goals. On a day-to-day basis the Senior Finance Manager is responsible for synthesizing the financial/economic aspects of multi-year, multi-million-dollar contracts, guiding good financial outcomes for the organization, and assuring customer transparency and contract accuracy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Management skills and ability.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and direct work activities.
• Experience with the operations of the area managed.
• Fluent understanding of multi-year financial planning metrics (ROI, NPV, DCF).
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Experience in presentation building and in presentation best practices.
• General business knowledge required, including specific knowledge of businesses supported.
• Excellent customer service and business relationship-building skills required.
• Reasoning, problem solving and analytical skills to resolve issues.
• Project management skills and abilities.
• Communication skills, both verbal and written, including the ability to present complex financial information to internal and external Corporate Executives.

Responsibilities

• Manage activities in the Corporate and Strategic Accounts Finance team.
• Manage staff and/or supervisors, assigning work, monitoring activities and evaluating performance.
• Manage escalated/critical issues.
• Administer employment actions, provide coaching and guidance to staff and promote staff training and development.
• Lead work activities of the business function, planning and organizing work, providing for adequate staffing and resources and maintaining work on schedule.
• Identify and implement strategies and efficiencies to enhance customer experience and align with business operations.
• Communicate with other related departments to coordinate work and resolve issues as needed.
• Provide internal and/or external customer feedback and lead/participate in teams related to new or ongoing project work.
• Lead/contribute to process/other improvements based on evaluation of existing procedures and business needs.
• Utilize data, metrics and system tools to ensure efficiency and to maximize customer experience.
• Identify problems, obstacles and opportunities and proactively act to address issues.
• Prepare reports and other information summarizing work activities and report results to peer groups as well as senior management.
• Prepare various analyses as needed to highlight issues and resolve questions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Incentives
• Benefits
• Positive and respectful work culture
• Encouragement of learning and discovery

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree