Financial Analyst - Reporting (FPNA)

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

At Baxter, we are building a best-in-class Reporting & Analytics organization (part of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization). We are implementing a transformative program which will streamline processes, enhance reporting & analytics and enhance opportunities for personal skill-building and professional growth.

This position will report to Senior Manager (Finance Global Delivery Center) and will work closely with the team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Advanced Analytics team. This position will be responsible for the seamless and efficient delivery of reporting and analytics offerings and will support all digital transformation initiatives

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Delivery of comprehensive financial management reporting packages for Global FP&A. Primary stakeholders include Global FP&A, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations teams.
• Liaise with Global FP&A leads to support the creation of budgets, forecasts, and management reports, while ensuring compliance with all quality / control requirements
• Liaise with Investor Relations team to develop reporting packages required for quarterly reviews.
• Responsible for timely delivery of the suite of reporting dashboards – Monthly Management Dashboards and Business Finance Dashboards
• Work with SMEs to implement financial dashboards, models and monitor outcomes.
• Understand and analyze data for the purpose of identifying trends and providing insights to the various stakeholders to unlock potential value for business.
• Contribute to continuous improvements/ innovation in reporting/ advanced analytics
• Develop strong functional knowledge and business stakeholder relationship
• Responsible for implementation changes to monthly reporting packages and identify additional reporting requirements after discussions with SMEs
• Liaise with Reporting & Analytics and Global FP&A organization to develop standard set of tools that meet business’ needs and help imporve data quality and assoicated governance
• Own the deployment of process flows, operating manuals, training guides, and standard operating procedures as needed
• Guarantee Global standard and alignment in all reports, processes, and communication.

Key Competencies:

• Expert in technical and financial knowledge, including understanding of internal control requirements and accounting principles as well as understanding of relevant business environment. Finance domain experience is a must.
• Excellent analytical skills with expertise in accounting, financial analysis, and reporting
• Expert with advanced excel formulas and experience with Excel VBA
• Excellent financial modelling skills preferred, experience in statistical modelling techniques is a plus
• Knowledge of data visualization and analytical tools such as Power BI and/ or Tableau or/and Alteryx, etc, how to optimize performance and customer experience. Certification on PowerBI / Tableau/Alteryx is added advantage
• Experience with JD Edwards (JDE), Hyperion Planning, Cognos, Tableau, Alteryx preferred
• Perform financial management reporting to help track business performance to facilitate decision making and business support
• Experience querying databases to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets is an added plus
• Understanding of large-scale data and analytics solutions on Cloud Data Warehouse/Snowflake/AWS S3 is an added plus
• Experience in AWS services like AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS Redshift & Quick Sight, is a plus
• Relevant experience in Business Intelligence techniques (ETL development, data modelling, data mining, data warehousing & data visualization & reporting) is an added plus
• Digitally savvy, able to navigate easily in a virtual world

Key Professional Competencies:

• Self-driven with excellent analytical skills and decision-making capabilities
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in agile environment by effectively prioritizing and managing tasks concurrently; owns career and is accountable for managing own development
• Ability to work in a team-oriented inter-dependent environment, often cross-functionally and influence.

Additional Requirements:

• Ability and willingness to travel both domestically and internationally as required.
• English: Native or bilingual proficiency required
• Professional proficiency in other languages a plus

Qualification/Experiences:

• 5+ years working in a finance function with a bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Math, Statistics or a related discipline.
• 2+years of relevant experience in FP&A with 1+ years of experience working with data visualization and analytical tools such as Tableau/Power BI/Alteryx
• Certifications in Tableau/Power BI/Alteryx /Agile is preferred

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