Senior Finance Director, Global Supply Chain

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.       

About the role:
The Sr. Finance Director will lead a geographically dispersed team with overall responsibility for driving financial excellence across the Global Supply Chain (GSC) organization. This role oversees all aspects of financial close and reporting, as well as quarterly budgeting and forecasting processes. The leader will work in close partnership with GSC leadership and Controllers across global BSC sites to ensure timely, accurate, and insightful statutory and management reporting, including key performance indicators (KPIs).

This individual will champion financial integrity, continuous improvement, and operational efficiency, while identifying opportunities to enhance reporting accuracy and process effectiveness. Reporting directly to the VP, Global Operations Controller, the Senior Finance Director will also serve as a strategic advisor and chief of staff to the SVP of Global Supply Chain. This position is based in Marlborough and follows a hybrid work model.

Key Responsibilities:

⦁    Build and leverage a global network in operations, across regions and diverse business units and throughout the finance function.
⦁    Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting – oversee these processes, schedules activities to ensure timely completion and establishes tasks aligned with the Corporate and Global Supply Chain strategy.  Scope includes operational spend as well as inventory and reserve performance.
⦁    Participate in development of annual STRAT plan for GSC, assess investments through proper modeling, highlight of value-based outcomes and ensure alignment of resources to business requirements. 
⦁    Anticipates business needs and aligns resources to achieve commitments.
⦁    Identifies trends in the financial reporting, assess and recommend actions while quantifying financial impacts from relevant business drivers.  
⦁    Combine financial experience with understanding of the business segments by function or region.
⦁    Translate complex business questions and challenges into financial driven models, alternatives, commitments, savings and impacts.  
⦁    Communicate with all stakeholders across the network, including commercial partners, manufacturing sites, sterilizers, distribution centers, global customer care teams and regional/country level operations.
⦁    Provide financial support for varied operational and network business decisions.  This includes operational spend and working capital investments.  
⦁    Deliver quarterly planning and forecasting of inventory performance as part of the Company’s cash flow analysis.
⦁    Identifies and drives annual operating plan target setting and priorities for areas of responsibility and proposes action plans to achieve them.
⦁    Leverage knowledge and experience to provide direction and insights to staff.
⦁    Initiates business partnering activities within GSC and across BSC business units.  Providing insight, modeling, and intelligence to drive decision making process and assess compliance to assumptions.
⦁    Managing staff– giving direction, oversee work processes, create development plans, etc.
⦁    Key contact for internal and external audits of GSC locations. 
⦁    Shares finance best practices and drives standardization across existing businesses and dynamic growth regions. Continually improve financial management processes. Takes the initiative in business partnering activities.
⦁    Anticipates, produces, and communicates actionable business and financial information monthly to Senior GSC Staff - including financial modeling and assessment of key financial and non-financial indicators to evaluate performance. 
⦁    Responsible for the annual standard cost setting 
⦁    Responsible for evaluating, monitoring and ensuring effective operation of internal controls and disclosure controls. When necessary, takes corrective action timely.

Basic Qualifications:

⦁       Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. MBA and/or CPA preferred.
⦁        8-12 years of progressive experience in financial management and leadership.
⦁        Proven ability to analyze drivers of financial performance, develop/lead divisional financial operating plans, and present analysis to various stakeholders.
⦁        Demonstrated leadership at the individual, project, and team levels.
⦁        Highly skilled at operating in a matrixed environment.  
⦁        Demonstrated ability to drive change and ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
⦁        Proven ability to apply solid judgment in decision making.
⦁        Proven ability to focus on details and maintain degree of accuracy.
⦁        Proven ability to work under pressure and meet critical financial deadlines.
⦁        Proven ability to build trust and gain the confidence of key internal and external stakeholders.
⦁        Highest levels of personal and professional ethics and integrity.
⦁        Superior interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate (written/oral) to all levels of the organization, with executive presence.
⦁        Experience presenting to Senior level leadership
⦁        Results-oriented. Strong organizational and time management skills.
⦁        Strong PC skills, including solid spreadsheet and presentation program skills.

Requisition ID: 607496

Minimum Salary: $172500 

Maximum Salary: $327800 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com--will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

For MA positions: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.