Sr. Director- Finance Transformationn

Working Location: MASSACHUSETTS, WALTHAM; PENNSYLVANIA, CENTER VALLEY 

 

Are you looking for a company that cares about people’s lives and health, including yours? At EVIDENT, we help make people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling, every day. 

 

Let’s inspire healthier lives, together.

Job Description

The Sr. Director Finance Transformation will be responsible for leading transformation efforts for the global finance organization.  This person will be responsible for supporting multiple projects on a regional and global scale in a hands-on manner by providing functional, accounting, and operational expertise.   The individual will partner with Corporate FP&A, Corporate accounting, MIS & TNM business units CFOs to drive simplification and efficiencies for accounting (both managerial and statutory), reporting, business process outsourcing, and regional finance processes inclusive of systems improvements.  

Job Duties

• Develop and implement a comprehensive finance transformation strategy that aligns with the organization’s overall goals
• Optimize and redesign core finance processes and policies at global and regional level
• Improve the effectiveness of a company’s planning, budgeting, consolidation, and management and statutory reporting processes to enable better analytics, insights, and control
• Key resources for ongoing transformation activities such as One stream implementation, BPO transition, & financial process redesign
• Enhance utilization of data and analytics into the company’s operations to deliver greater transparency to business partners
• Collaborate lead cross-functional teams to help identify areas of improvement and develop implementation and resources plans to implement change
• Lead change management initiatives, ensuring successful adoption of new processes and technologies
• Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Additional special projects as needed

Job Requirements

Education:

• B.S. required in Finance or Accounting and relevant operational experience in a global manufacturing environment.     
• CPA or MBA is preferred.     

Experience:

• 15+ years financial management experience in a global matrix environment preferred.
• 5 years or more of management and or supervisory experience
• Ability to interact with various levels within Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Executive Leadership  
• Global manufacturing experience with multiple site locations
• Ability to provide objective facts to drive decision support.
• Maintain a strong relationship and collaborate with all key stakeholders.

 

Skills:

• Individual must have a high level of motivation commitment and dedication combined with a proactive mind-set    
• While technical expertise is desirable the successful candidate will have demonstrated leadership and management skills including problem resolution, employee coaching and mentoring, and a strategic vision.     

We realize work isn’t just a job to you.

It’s a big part of your life, but not the only part. That’s why we offer competitive salaries, a robust 401(k) program, annual bonus program and comprehensive medical benefits, as well as tuition reimbursement, flexible schedules, parental and adoption leave, on-site services and Colleague Affinity Networks — so you can be ready for where life can take you.

EVIDENT is passionate about the solutions it creates for the life sciences and industrial equipment industries. For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling by helping detect, prevent, and treat disease, furthering scientific research, ensuring public safety, and capturing images of the world. Today, EVIDENT’s solutions range from industrial microscopes and videoscopes to nondestructive testing technology and x-ray analyzers. These products are widely used for quality control, inspection, and measurement applications. Serving customers in fields such as manufacturing, maintenance, and environment and natural resources, EVIDENT’s technology contributes to the quality of products and adds to the safety of industrial infrastructure and facilities. For more information, Click Here.

It is the policy of EVIDENT to extend equal employment and advancement opportunity to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship status, religious creed (including dress and grooming practices), age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth and/or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital