Senior Financial Controller

<p><b>Build a career powered by innovations that matter!</b>  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced <span>manufacturing—improving</span> productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.</p><p></p><p>Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.</p><p></p><p></p><p><b>Company Overview</b></p><p>Build a career powered by innovations that matter.  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced <span>manufacturing—improving</span> productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.</p><p>Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific.  Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.</p><p></p><p><b>Business Unit Overview</b></p><p>This position is part of Novanta’s Advanced Surgery Business Unit. Advanced Surgery a medical device group, playing an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations.  You will be part of the Adv Surgery Finance team and reporting to the Head of FP&amp;A based in Berlin Germany.   This role is located in Check Republic (Brno) with travel requirements in  Berlin Germany , and in the USA where the two other R&amp;D centers are located.</p><p></p><p><b>Position Details</b></p><p>Within the Finance department, the mission of R&amp;D Controller  is to provide the Business Unit with detailed financial analysis, scenario &amp; reporting to support decisions making and help reaching the company's objectives.<br/> </p><h2><b>Job Responsibilities:</b></h2><ul><li>You are responsible for all financial controlling activities within Research and Development group  throughout the full life of the project, from pre studies to development up to business valuation.</li><li>Being a key partner and contributor across a highly matrixed, cross-functional project community, you support the R&amp;D activities by shaping and owning reporting processes.</li><li>You participate in the monthly report out by representing Finance for projects cost valuations.</li><li>Lead the R&amp;D financial planning and reporting : work closely with PMO by providing proactive support on budgeting and forecasting processes, costs monitoring, quarterly closing and reporting, as well as act as a finance business partner on R&amp;D activities.</li><li>Own and deliver monthly financial reporting to Project teams</li><li>Provide financial &amp; reporting expertise to the R&amp;D teams, support and challenge them to implement efficiency measures, new metrics and spending management incl. Mitigation</li><li>Pro-actively enhance the reporting processes and tools to enable project transparency and a more effective decision making on development activities.</li><li>Collaborate with Business and PMO on projects valuation simulations using NPV tools, ensure alignment with objectives of all stakeholders and track the value creation vs target for new projects<br/> </li></ul><h2><b>Skills and Requirements:</b></h2><ul><li>Being an excellent communicator is essential for the success in this role, including communicating numbers and data to non-financial people.</li><li>You are motivated by working in a fast-paced environment and by discovering new ways to optimize processes and tools.</li><li>Bachelor of Arts or Master's Degree in Finance, Economics or similar</li><li>Min. 3-5 years of experience working with project controlling in the Healthcare industry</li><li>Solid expertise in developing financial processes in budgeting, forecasting and longterm planning, driving alignment across multiple functions</li><li>Experience building and coordinating project valuations scenarios</li><li>Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills</li><li>Used to daily work with an ERP, MS Office Excel, Power point</li><li>Fluent in English , Czech preferred but not mandatory</li><li>Ability to manage complexity and deliver high quality results under time constraints</li></ul><p></p><h2><b>Benefits:</b></h2><ul><li>Extra week of vacation (25 days/year)</li><li>5 sick days per calendar year</li><li>1 day of paid time off for charitable activities/year</li>