Finance Business Partner Apac

**Job Summary**

The role will be a strategic business leader and key member of the leadership team for SET & CMFT businesses in APAC region. The role is responsible for improving business performance, driving profitable and sustainable growth and cash generation to add value that will guide decision making throughout the business.

The role serves as a key partner with the Controllership and FP&A functions to set the overall financial strategy, monitor/drive financial performance and maintain an effective internal controller environment.

**Principal Duties & Responsibilities**

Face of Finance
- Serve as the “face of Finance” for the Sports Medicine, Extremities & Trauma (SET) businesses in APAC (except China/HK and ANZ) markets.
- Lead country/ business unit business partnering support in areas such as commercial growth strategy, sales channel optimization, working capital management, and capital related analysis and decisions.
- Support teams with significant/ ad-hoc issues at country/ BU level, that cannot be resolved through standard operating procedures.
- Conduct Business Owners needs analysis through proactive engagement with Business Owners to understand their requirements, pain points, and goals. Conduct in-depth needs analysis to identify areas where Finance can add value and address their specific challenges.
- P&L ownership in working alongside the Business Owners and Regional Leaders to achieve the P&L targets, by developing robust driver-based top-line, resourcing, financial and ROI models and driving key operational initiatives to achieve financial business objectives.
- Build an in-depth understanding of the ZB Growth Model (including, pricing, sales channels, Working Capital management, capital decisions, M&A, etc.) and make strategic suggestions for how to prioritize and adapt growth levers to be most effective for the business.
- Work closely with FP&A function and business teams (Pricing, IBP, etc.) to forecast and manage results, improve transparency, and maintain a single source of the truth amongst all stakeholders.
- Provide business recommendations by using clear and effective presentation and communication.
- Create and communicate presentations that engage and effectively story tell, to allow stakeholders to make effective decisions.

Results Driven
- Drive accountability for business financial performance and serves as a strategic advisor to key business stakeholders.
- Review management reporting outputs with country/ cluster level business leaders (e.g., RGL, MBR, QFR, QLT, Close, Regional Reviews).
- Review and finalize long-range plan with business.
- Analyze monthly and quarterly results and communicate messages to senior management (finance and non/finance), including management reports packages, risks and opportunity assessment, business trends and make recommendations to help improve the business’ growth and profitability.

Continuous Improvement
- Continually assesses opportunities to improve BP delivery, optimize talent and leverage technology to improve efficiencies.
- Bring a continuous improvement mindset, consistently evaluating current processes/procedures and seeking opportunities to improve efficiency.
- Create, track and refine Finance KPIs into relevant key metrics to drive in-depth modeling and analysis, build and maintain KPI dashboards and reports to provide insight and transparency into performance; review these dashboards regularly with Business Owners as well as China President and flag any potential negative leading indicators for slowing growth, lagging margins or other revenue quality issues.
- Perform Financial scenario modeling and build business cases for ROI, resource allocation, price volume, etc.
- Stay informed about market and economic trends: Stay up to date with the latest trends, innovations, and best practices. Leverage this knowledge to anticipate market changes and provide valuable insights to Business Owners.
- This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and might not necessarily comprise all of the essential functions. _

**Expected Areas of Competence**
- Mastery level strategic planning and negotiation skills to develop action plans/ solutions to improve business performance.
- Advanced financial acumen and ability to speak to standard reporting and planning processes.
- Ability to inspire confidence with key stakeholders, including commercial and function leaders at country and regional level (executive presence).
- Capability to work with and influence different functional groups to achieve the desired business outcome (influencing skills).
- Mastery level leadership skills to prioritize business partnering work to be completed.
- Lead and act as a role model and thought leader.
- Strong ability to facilitate open dialogues with business/industry leaders and finance leaders to ensure that all perspectives are being heard and respected.
- Has strong relationships with business leaders and is able to build and mainta