Manager, Global Inventory COE, Business Support (remote)

Work Flexibility: Remote

In this role, you will support the director(s) within the Global Inventory COE for your designated business areas (O&S, MSNT, Europe, international or GQO). Your primary role will be managing the financial impact of inventory specific to your business area (one or more divisions), which includes having a full understanding of technical inventory accounting, advanced analytics, financial reporting, variance analysis, and forecasting. Additionally, you will support for all stakeholder management within your business area, along with quarterbacking and resolving accounting issues, policy disputes, and/or business changes leading to financial impacts As the primary point-of-contact for your area, you will support in leading all inventory related business support, during and at month end cycles, including all Flash call support and commentary, Balance Sheet reviews, Cash Flow comments and analysis, projections/budget cycles, and any business initiatives related to optimizing inventory, supporting transitions of accounting or inventory work, or system implementations.

Who we want

Effective communicators. Can analyze and synthesize data/information for insights and communicate them in a consumable way for decision making

Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure business goals and objective are met.

Collaborative partners. Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships, influence and partner with business leaders in multiple functional areas

What you will do

• Business Support:

  • Supporting the director(s) for setting direction together with higher management within the Global Inventory COE for the business partnering role and strategy

  • Responsible for one or more specific groups or business areas (NV, Medical, Ortho, Spine, Endo and others).

  • Responsible for building a close relationship/partnership with your allocated division on topics like: market insights, PLCM, new initiatives supporting inventory optimization (also in collaboration  with Operations), being the point-of-contact for business and rest of Global Inventory COE, leading the flash calls from an Inventory standpoint, provide timely awareness  to business or to COE teams, supporting inventory related decisions, attend or supporting business reviews, and participating on mergers/acquisitions

  • Responsible for understanding the accounting world behind inventory and the specific business processes in place in your area of responsibility in order to bridge real-world inventory movement with specific accounting transactions and adjustments

  • Supporting the director(s) for identifying and defining  all reporting needs to precisely and effectively report on metrices, KPI’s, variances and progress, and the story behind the inventory numbers

• Month end:

  • Supporting and driving the monthly closing comments on actuals and where possible any deviations towards projections/budget with Divisional Finance, Operations, Supply Chain and Global Finance Service Centers (GFS) teams

• Communication/relationships:

  • Responsible for effectively communicating relevant information to all stakeholders, with as main stakeholders the divisional business, being single point of contact for the business versus other departments of the Global Inventory COE

  • Proactively communicate changes in business trends, local business decisions or other issues that may have a financial impact and are accounting related

  • Informing and aligning with the director(s) in the US and Europe (and other regions) for the business partnering part for the respective divisions

• Planning:

  • Support the planning process with the internal Inventory COE team for the divisions on preparing forecast models, consolidations, and coordination of projection calls where applicable

  • Provide quality inputs into business projections and budget processes

• Management:

  • Supporting the Global Inventory Business support team by setting direction, developing talent, and empowering their development to support the strategy for the Global Inventory COE

• Compliance:

  • Manager will support where needed/applicable for Internal and External Audits (mainly SOX related)

  • Responsible for supporting compliance related activities based on the daily tasks within Business Support for Global Inventory COE (like last time buys, bridge buys, exceptions on policies etc.) in close collaboration with Compliance Inventory COE team and Technical Accounting team

What you need

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance required (Master’