General Manager, Finance Business Partners

Role Overview

This leadership position is responsible for guiding the executive finance business partnering function by offering the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) strategic planning support, commercial insights, and data-driven decision-making assistance. The role integrates financial reporting accuracy with business performance and governance, partnering closely with the controllership team to ensure integrity and alignment in financial messages and enterprise planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a reliable financial advisor to the ELT, providing insight, challenge, and support on both strategic and operational decisions.
• Collaborate with business leaders to analyze commercial drivers, identify risks and opportunities, and translate these into practical financial guidance.
• Lead discussions on business performance with the ELT, clarifying trends, underlying factors, trade-offs, and required actions to meet financial targets.
• Prepare and deliver financial narratives and presentations for executive meetings, anchored on commercial data and actionable recommendations.
• Foster cross-functional relationships to enhance financial accountability, ownership of performance, and decision quality.
• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and reforecasting processes ensuring alignment with strategic goals, assumptions, and operational factors.
• Develop and maintain future-oriented financial models and scenarios to aid in planning and resource allocation.
• Regularly monitor and analyze variance from budgets and forecasts, identifying causes and suggesting corrective actions.
• Design and improve management reporting frameworks and KPIs for clearer visibility into business performance.
• Drive continual enhancements in planning procedures, reporting schedules, and analytic capabilities within the finance business partnering team.
• Support strategic planning cycles by converting business strategies into detailed long-term financial plans, prioritizing investments and value-driven initiatives.
• Evaluate financial aspects of strategic projects, business cases, pricing strategies, and investment decisions to guide capital allocation and prioritization.
• Identify potential risks and opportunities in future plans and recommend measures to safeguard and promote growth.
• Utilize scenario planning and financial analyses to facilitate informed executive decisions in a changing environment.
• Ensure strategic plans rest on sound financial assumptions with clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Work intimately with the Financial Controller pillar to synchronize planning, forecasting, and performance analyses with actual accounting records and compliance needs.
• Maintain uniform assumptions, data standards, and reporting methods between finance business partnering and controllership functions.
• Champion strong governance of planning processes, model accuracy, assumption management, and management reporting outputs.
• Support the entire Record to Report process to assure timely reporting, data quality, governance adherence, and closing activities in coordination with controllership.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the finance business partnering team to boost commercial savvy, analytical expertise, and organizational influence.
• Stay informed and prepared to fulfill crisis management roles effectively, participating in trainings and applying calm leadership during crises per policies.
• Contribute feedback for continual refinement of the Crisis Management framework and processes.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• A university degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Approximately 15 or more years of relevant experience, including significant senior management exposure in finance business partnering, FP&A, or commercial finance leadership.
• Advanced expertise in FP&A including budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, financial modeling, scenario analysis, management reporting, and KPI development.
• Proficiency in collaborating with financial reporting and controllership teams and experience with ERP and planning software.
• Strong commercial acumen combined with influential leadership, excellent communication, stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and analytical judgement.
• Ability to engage effectively with senior executives and convert financial insights into actionable business decisions.

Additional Information

By submitting an application, candidates agree to the collection and use of their personal data exclusively for recruitment and employment purposes in line with company policy. The company fosters an inclusive culture supporting persons with disabilities, offering reasonable accommodations to uphold dignity and independence. The organization is committed to diversity, equal opportunity employment, and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, bullying, or retaliation.