Finance Business Partner

<p><strong>Position Summary</strong><br>The Finance Business Partner (FBP) serves as the lead finance partner to a designated region, market, or business unit. This role has a direct line to Finance, and a dotted line to the business, working closely with operational leadership to support financial performance, inform strategic decision-making, and enhance forward-looking planning.</p> <p>The FBP brings business insight together with enterprise financial priorities, helping translate operational activity into actionable financial perspectives and ensuring local execution is aligned with broader company objectives.</p> <p>In close coordination with the Corporate Finance organization, the FBP supports an aligned and disciplined approach to planning, forecasting, performance management, and financial decision support. This role helps connect region and business-line insights to enterprise financial processes, reinforces common financial standards and KPI definitions, and contributes to a unified financial narrative across the organization.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>Strategic Partnership &amp; Decision Support</strong></p> <ul> <li>Serve as the key finance partner region/market/business line leadership.</li> <li>Provide forward‑looking financial insights to inform strategy and growth initiatives.</li> <li>Evaluate business cases, investments, pricing decisions, and new opportunities.</li> <li>Translate strategy into financial outcomes, scenarios, risks, and recommendations.</li> <li>Constructively challenge assumptions to elevate decision quality.</li> <li>Ensure transparency and alignment with Corporate Finance to support enterprise-wide consistency in financial guidance and standards.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Planning, Budgeting &amp; Forecasting</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead the annual budgeting process and forecasting process for the assigned business area.</li> <li>Ensure alignment between operational plans and corporate financial targets.</li> <li>Build scenario models to support planning under uncertainty.</li> <li>Identify risks and opportunities relative to plan.</li> <li>Partner closely with Corporate Finance to ensure methodologies, standards, and timelines are met consistently across the organization.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Performance Management &amp; Analysis</strong></p> <ul> <li>Monitor performance vs. budget, forecast, and prior periods.</li> <li>Analyze revenue, expenses, margins, and operational drivers.</li> <li>Diagnose root causes of variances and propose corrective actions.</li> <li>Promote accountabili