Senior Manager Finance Business Partner

Overview

The Sr Manager, Finance Business Partner will serve as a senior finance partner and trusted advisor to a country, function, or business unit leadership team. This role supports business performance, profitable growth, cash generation, and decision-making through financial insight, planning, and analysis. The position partners with Controllership and FP&A to execute financial strategy, monitor financial performance, and help maintain an effective internal control environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key finance partner for a specific country, business unit, or function.
• Lead business-unit support activities, including:
  • Commercial growth strategy
  • Sales channel optimization
  • Working capital management
  • Capital-related analysis and decisions
• Support teams with significant or ad-hoc issues at the country/BU level that cannot be resolved through standard operating procedures.
• Conduct business owners needs analysis by proactively engaging business owners to understand requirements, pain points, and goals, and identifying where finance can add value.
• Support delivery of P&L targets by partnering with business owners and functional leaders to develop driver-based top-line, resourcing, financial, and ROI models and to advance key operational initiatives.
• Build a strong understanding of the ZB Growth Model (pricing, sales channels, working capital management, and capital decisions) and recommend how to prioritize and adapt growth levers.
• Work closely with FP&A and business teams (including Pricing and IBP) to forecast and manage results, improve transparency, and maintain a single source of the truth among stakeholders.
• Provide business recommendations using clear, effective presentations and communications.
• Create and communicate presentations that “story tell” effectively to enable stakeholders to make decisions.

Additional Focus Areas

• Support accountability for business financial performance and act as a finance advisor to key business stakeholders.
• Review management reporting outputs with country/cluster level business leaders (e.g., RGL, MBR, QFR, QLT, Close, Regional Reviews).
• Support the long-range plan process with the business and provide analysis and recommendations.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly results and communicate messages to senior management (finance and non/finance), including management report packages, risks and opportunity assessment, business trends, and recommendations to improve growth and profitability.

Continuous Improvement

• Continually assess opportunities to improve business plan delivery, optimize talent, and leverage technology to improve efficiencies.
• Bring a continuous improvement mindset by evaluating current processes/procedures and seeking opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Create, track, and refine finance KPIs into relevant metrics; build and maintain KPI dashboards and reports to provide performance insight.
• Regularly review dashboards with business owners and functional leadership to identify leading indicators and emerging risks.
• Perform financial scenario modeling and build business cases for ROI, resource allocation, price/volume, etc.
• Stay informed about market and economic trends, including latest innovations and best practices, and use this knowledge to anticipate market changes and provide insights to business owners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of applicable experience is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, business management or equivalent and 8+ years of experience in Finance.
• Several years of experience as a finance business partner is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong strategic planning and problem-solving skills to develop action plans and solutions that improve business performance.
• Advanced financial acumen and ability to speak to standard reporting and planning processes.
• Ability to build confidence with key stakeholders, including commercial and functional leaders at country and regional level.
• Capability to work with and influence different functional groups to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Strong leadership and prioritization skills to manage business partnering work effectively.
• Role-model behavior within the finance organization and promotes sound business partnering practices.
• Strong ability to facilitate open dialogues with business/industry leaders and finance leaders.
• Strong relationships with business leaders and ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Ability to adapt approach, communication style, and priorities to changing business needs.
• Motivated, results driven, and self-starter with ability to impact others.
• Strong understanding of financial and business modeling.

Travel Expectations

• Up to 20%

Compensation & Benefits

• Expected compensation range: $130k to $160k, plus target bonus

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description

Equal Opportunity

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability