Country Finance Business Partner

Position Overview & Purpose:

Fresenius Medical Care, an $19 billion company, and largest Kidney Care company in the world, is seeking a Country Finance Business Partner – Care Delivery Internationalto join our Global Finance Team. 

Country Finance Business Partners are an insightful and trusted co-pilot to the business and function by pro-actively providing future-oriented analytics, overseeing and driving business performance and implementing strategy - always with the focus on value creation. They liaise with the CoEs and GBS to ensure first-class support and sustainable operational excellence by combining business acumen with in-depth finance expertise and resolut issues as part of the credit management process.

The role will require strong collaboration across both Finance and non-Finance teams to ensure objectives are met.  The ability to understand the underlying business, influence performance drivers and communicate financial outcomes to all stakeholders is keyo success.

Tasks and Activities:

Proactively drive and provide highly valuable input from finance perspective on a broad range of business topics such as (not limited):

• Business result commenting
• Interpret ad-hoc business analyses and recommend actions
• Strategic planning and decision support for the region (incl. capital allocation, business development and M&A)
• Supporting local business
• Investment projects’ analysis
• Costs optimization
• Credit management
• Working capital controlling
• Provide forward-looking decision support
• Ensure the execution of the strategic plan
• Interface with Operations, Procurement, IT, HR&Payroll, GSS and ensure involvement of CoEs
• Preform administrative topics that may remain with the local business partner

This will be achieved through:

• Strategic planning and tactical initiatives oversight

• Provide inputs for local actual / ad-hoc reporting & planning e.g., non-financial KPIs, to the extent not provided by single source of truth (FP&A)

Desired Profile & Qualifications:

• A strong track record of delivering tangible business performance improvements

• A proven ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams to achieve common aims

• Ability to think strategically

• Excellent communication skills; spoken and written English

• Communicative German language would be strong preference

• Ability to build relationships through doing the right thing

• Pro-active self-starter

• Hold a relevant Finance qualification