Senior Finance Manager

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient's life. Patients are at the heart of what we do at Edwards Lifesciences. Our Finance teams work hard to optimize our current and long-term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus. As part of the team, whether providing analysis, forecasting, or reporting financial information, your application of accurate financial business practices will play a fundamental role in how we impact the quality of life for patients all over the world.

Edwards Lifesciences opened a new position for a Senior Finance Manager based in Bogotá, Colombia

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide Financial guidance to all leaders
• Collaborate with management in identifying process improvements.
• Develop project plans and global finance activities with accountability for successful completion within scope of project deliverables
• Provide guidance and/or lead smaller project teams to execute tactical projects and/or initiatives
• Collaborate with finance and other stakeholders to develop moderately complex financial dashboards, global reporting and analysis (e.g., plan metrics, cost of quality, financial tracking on big projects)
• Draw findings from financial and trend reports, synthesize information, create presentations for management and provide recommendations and conclusions from data
• Responsible for compliance activities (e.g., SOX, key and internal controls, fixed asset audits, physical inventory)
• Manage and complete financial activities (e.g., tax, month-end, forecast) within scope and normal course of business and provide solutions on complex challenges
• Analyze ROI (Return on Investment) of expenditures for projects

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• 10 years of previous related experience Required

• Fully bilingual (English and Spanish)
• Proven successful project management skills
• Proven expertise in MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel, financial systems, and ERP systems (e.g., JDE, SAP); Database tools (e.g., QlikView) preferred
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including internal negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
• Extensive knowledge of own area within the organization while contributing to the development of new concepts, techniques, and standards
• Extensive understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), local GAAP, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
• Extensive understanding of related aspects of financial processes and/or systems
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
• Represents leadership on sections of projects within a specific area interfacing with project managers and finance team
• Consult in project setting within specific sections of financial area
• Provides financial leadership to outsourcing partners on a task level
• Ability to interact with business unit partners