Job Description

Overview
Waters has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to provide business partnership, financial insights and analysis to support the EMEA Service business. This position is a member of the EMEA Finance Senior Leadership team, reporting to the Senior Director, Finance EMEA.
Based in either the Paris, France or Manchester, UK areas, the Finance Business Partner will also be a pivotal member of the EMEA Service Management Team, co-piloting the business with the commercial leader and supporting the commercial organization across EMEA.
The successful candidate should be committed to international mobility in order to take advantage of career progression opportunities in both Finance and in the Commercial organization, that may require relocation.
Responsibilities

• Business Partnering: The role actively contributes to growing the Service business profitably.

Owns the performance management process from strategic priorities setting, to budgeting, forecasting, variance and trend analysis. Drives long term strategic planning, assessing business potential and transformation. Delivers strong financial support on strategic ad-hoc studies (partnership, business case, investment scenarios). Key focus on KPI's, deep dive into business drivers, provide guidance, challenge plans, offer solutions, and ensure full buy-in of senior management. Ensures effective communication and understanding of the financial & business performance and drive accordingly the decision-making process (corrective plans). * Finance Excellence: work closely with the EMEA Accounting team on the Monthly and Quarterly Close, as well as ensuring a robust control and compliance environment is in place across all countries. Work closely with EMEA HQ team on regular reporting and analysis.

• Finance Transformation: support regional and global efforts to harmonize processes and procedures, implement new tools, including RPA and other automation tools.
• Leadership: participate as a member of the EMEA Finance Leadership team, actively engaging to drive harmonization of processes, and to help build an organization that successfully partners with the business in helping to meet our strategic objectives.

Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
• MBA or professional level Accounting qualification preferred.

Experience:

• Proven substantial working in a commercial Finance role in a large organization, ideally in Life Sciences, or an Industrial or FMCG environment.
• Experience partnering with commercial organizations, with a deep understanding of the priorities, levers and dependencies of those teams.
• Past experience in a fast-paced environment, ability to adapt and deal with ambiguity.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, PowerPoint and other business software.
• Experience of working within a diverse cultural setting.

Competencies:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to partner with and present to senior executives.
• Ability to work within a complex matrix structure.
• Strong business, analytic and technical acumen.

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.
We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.

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