Sr. Manager, Finance Business Partnering

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Site Finance Business Partner, as the Senior Manager, Finance Business Partnering, you will partner with assigned senior Site Leaders in Kankakee to provide accurate, timely, and meaningful financial analysis, insights, and advisement to support and drive business decisions and to meet the financial performance. You will provide analyses and meet reporting requirements of the CSL Behring Finance team. You will execute these purposes with a willingness and openness to business partners' needs, focusing on continuously improving the internal business processes and quality of insights, plus supporting sustainable profitable growth strategy through insightful analyses. You will focus on supporting assigned functional activities including production planning, labor modelling, conversion costs, process orders, value capture and realization, and provisions. You will acquire the knowledge of assigned operational areas at the site and possess the ability to provide technical guidance in financial systems, applications, and acumen.

The expected base salary range for this position at hiring is $130,000 - $154,000. Please note this salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay that CSL expects to pay for this position at the listed location as of the time of this posting. Individual base salary for a successful candidate is determined by qualifications, skill level, experience, competencies, and other relevant factors. In addition to base salary, total compensation for this role may also include incentive compensation and equity.

This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule. #LI-hybrid

The Role:

• Lead Finance Business Partnering in Kankakee to support assigned Value Streams. Contribute to the development of reporting, dashboards, and analytics to ultimately drive improved decisions by understanding the financial impact of decisions. Execute KPI framework to drive accountability and financial acumen among the business partners.
• Prepare insightful commentary for variances to forecast and budget to support the site's E2E leadership team. Commentary will focus on key performance drivers and actions required to mitigate risks and prevent unfavorable variance from recurring.
• For the assigned functions, lead the annual budget and quarterly forecast including providing insightful commentary to business partners. Lead cost center planning process for assigned cost centers and financial evaluation of targeted process improvement initiatives. Be bold and challenge the standard responses from business partners to ensure financial competitiveness for the Company.
• Collaborate on cost accounting activities including calculation of standard costs, manufacturing variance analysis, and provision analysis for assigned Value Streams. Collaborate with business partners to ensure yields and machine hours reflect current KPIs.
• Drive the improvement of existing financial systems, dashboards, processes, and procedures, and liaise with other CSL Behring sites to achieve global standardization as requested. Lead global standardization projects as requested by E2E Finance Business Partnering leader.
• Review financial submissions, as requested, for business cases or high value Procurement contracts. Collaborate with business partners to validate reasonableness of assumptions and valuation.
• Provide Finance evaluation of business improvement and growth projects including costing data for capital investment projects. Leverage FP&A resources to support development of business cases and other complex analyses and modelling.
• Collaborate with business partners and Finance leaders to design and presents information in ways to improve timeliness and decision-making capability of the users of the information.
• Drive the Value Capture and Realization process with business partners of assigned functions. Identify and evaluate cost improvement (CI) projects. Collaborate with business partners to drive timely execution of CI projects and adjust budget and forecasts accordingly. Audit financial results of CI projects after implementation.
• Lead the Site Finance Business Partnering team to provide required support to external auditors. Ensure site's documentation and analyses submitted timely and completely.

• Required Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or closely related degree.
• CPA or CMA differentiating factor.
• MBA preferable.
• Equivalent years of work experience may apply.
• Minimum 10+ years relevant experience in financial and accounting roles including measuring and analyzing performance to budget and forecast.
• Minimum 7+ years finance business partnering support for at least a mid-size manufacturing site. Experience must come from being physically located at site and a member of site's leadership team.
• Preference given for lean manufacturing and product costing experience.
• Able to demonstrate excellent business partnering skills including effectively challenging, advising, and supporting decision making through effective collaboration.
• Experience functioning within a global organization.
• Proven experience providing site leadership with financial analysis including insightful commentary and communicating in the business partner language.
• Demonstrated track record of effectively functioning in a team. Must maintain discretion, confidentiality, and maintain composure and professionalism during collaboration.
• Experience engaging diverse stakeholders at varying levels within the organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.