Talent Community: Finance Operatons Analyst, EMEA

Please note – The purpose of this job posting is to create a talent database for future vacancies within our organization.

Please note that this posting is not directly associated with a specific job opening at the time being.

About the role
The EMEA Financial Operations (FinOps) Analyst provides support to the EMEA reporting, planning, innovation and compensation managers, in order to achieve the overall goals and objectives of Boston Scientific. The selected candidate will focus on process improvement, enabling the effective annual and quarter planning, analysis and reporting activities, including tools creation and closing activities, direct/indirect support to division, commission calculation and project development/management.
 

In this role, you will be responsible to:

• Provide key financial support to Country and Central Financial Planning  Analysis (FP&A) Managers, creating strong trust relationship with all the stakeholders.
• Work directly with FP&As in the preparation of the monthly closing process on sales and Operational Expenditure (OpEx) and provide relevant analysis of variance to plan, forecast and previous year.
• Provide EMEA monthly financial reports on sales, COGS, inventory, OpEx to FP&As and business stakeholders.
• Define in collaboration with EHQ and Divisional FP&As new financial reports to track performance and roll out training to internal customers and business stakeholders.
• Assist the FP&As in the analysis of performance trends or any ad hoc analysis on sales and OpEx, investigating significant variance to plan.
• Responsible for the calculation of employees quarterly commissions.
• Participate in the process of sales reps annual target setting.
• Support FP&As in the annual financial plan and forecasts by preparing relevant templates and managing all financial data into the financial systems.
• Provide on-going user assistance and training on financial systems.
• Key participant in any FP&A processes, including the preparation of quarterly business review.
• Keep an open bidirectional communication channel with the divisional FP&As, being the FinOps representative for the assigned division/region.
• Accountable for all the reports delivered to his/her division, granting accuracy and compliance to policies and deadlines.
• Participate as a key player in new developments and European projects, transforming Finance function through technology and new resources (AI, predictive analytics, Data Science, …)

 
What are we looking for in you?

• Degree in Business Administration or similar.
• 3-5 years of experience in Finance analysis.
• Analytic mindset with attention to details.
• Business Analytics / Business Intelligence skills and strategic mindset to challenge status quo and bring innovation towards a Data-centric business model.
• Continuous improvement spirit.
• Proactivity and ability to plan workload autonomously, keeping team spirit.
• Used to work with tight deadlines.
• Communication skills to deliver presentation at top management level and to influence others in a well-grounded manner.
• Nice to have experience in matrix organizations.
• Fluent in English (working language). Additional European language is desirable.
• Strong Excel knowledge and systems adoption (Tableau, Hyperion, SAP).
• Accounting experience is a plus.
• Advanced collaboration and team working skills.

Location: based in Madrid, on a hybrid working schedule.

Please note – this is only an opportunity to join our Talent Community, it is not linked to a specific vacancy.

We, Boston Scientific, are an equal employment opportunity employer. We do not and will not make any personnel decisions (like recruiting, hiring, job assignments, and promotions) based on a person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.