Senior Finance Director, Global Supply Chain

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.       

About the role:
The Sr. Finance Director will lead a geographically dispersed team with overall responsibility for driving financial excellence across the Global Supply Chain (GSC) organization. This role oversees all aspects of financial close and reporting, as well as quarterly budgeting and forecasting processes. The leader will work in close partnership with GSC leadership and Controllers across global BSC sites to ensure timely, accurate, and insightful statutory and management reporting, including key performance indicators (KPIs).

This individual will champion financial integrity, continuous improvement, and operational efficiency, while identifying opportunities to enhance reporting accuracy and process effectiveness. Reporting directly to the VP, Global Operations Controller, the Senior Finance Director will also serve as a strategic advisor and chief of staff to the SVP of Global Supply Chain. This position is based in Marlborough and follows a hybrid work model.

Key Responsibilities:

⦁    Build and leverage a global network in operations, across regions and diverse business units and throughout the finance function.
⦁    Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting – oversee these processes, schedules activities to ensure timely completion and establishes tasks aligned with the Corporate and Global Supply Chain strategy.  Scope includes operational spend as well as inventory and reserve performance.
⦁    Participate in development of annual STRAT plan for GSC, assess investments through proper modeling, highlight of value-based outcomes and ensure alignment of resources to business requirements. 
⦁    Anticipates business needs and aligns resources to achieve commitments.
⦁    Identifies trends in the financial reporting, assess and recommend actions while quantifying financial impacts from relevant business drivers.  
⦁    Combine financial experience with understanding of the business segments by function or region.
⦁    Translate complex business questions and challenges into financial driven models, alternatives, commitments, savings and impacts.  
⦁    Communicate with all stakeholders across the network, including commercial partners, manufacturing sites, sterilizers, distribution centers, global customer care teams and regional/country level operations.
⦁    Provide financial support for varied operational and network business decisions.  This includes operational spend and working capital investments.  
⦁    Deliver quarterly planning and forecasting of inventory performance as part of the Company’s cash flow analysis.
⦁    Identifies and drives annual operating plan target setting and priorities for areas of responsibility and proposes action plans to achieve them.
⦁    Leverage knowledge and experience to provide direction and insights to staff.
⦁    Initiates business partnering activities within GSC and across BSC business units.  Providing insight, modeling, and intelligence to drive decision making process and assess compliance to assumptions.
⦁    Managing staff– giving direction, oversee work processes, create development plans, etc.
⦁    Key contact for internal and external audits of GSC locations. 
⦁    Shares finance best practices and drives standardization across existing businesses and dynamic growth regions. Continually improve financial management processes. Takes the initiative in business partnering activities.
⦁    Anticipates, produces, and communicates actionable business and financial information monthly to Senior GSC Staff - including financial modeling and assessment of key financial and non-financial indicators to evaluate performance. 
⦁    Responsible for the annual standard cost setting 
⦁    Responsible for evaluating, monitoring and ensuring effective operation of internal controls and disclosure controls. When necessary, takes corrective action timely.

Basic Qualifications:

⦁       Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. MBA and/or CPA preferred.
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