LivaNova Hiring for Business Analyst (FA) Job at Melbourne Full Time

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Job Purpose

This Business Analyst (BA) plays a vital role in the Finance team and reports into the Senior Finance Manager- ANZ. The BA is expected to work closely with the Commercial team and provide business partnering and actionable insights to ANZ leadership team.

Collaboration and effective communication will be key to their success. Equipped with strong stakeholder management, problem solving and presentation skills, the BA can build strong relationship with members of the Finance team and also cross-functionally. There are regular collaborations with commercial, operations and customer service teams, so soft skills like people management is essential to be successful in this role.

Essential Job Functions

• Deliver and maintain reporting suite for ANZ commercial team including sales dashboard with supporting information
• Provide monthly and quarterly margin analysis to identify lower margin product and accounts to commercial team
• Work closely with commercial team and provide actionable insight to support sales growth and adhoc analysis as and when required with quick turnround
• Provide insights and trend analysis for sales tender for hospitals required by sales team including account and product level information
• Own calculation of Sales incentive program on quarterly basis including support in Incentive target setting and actual performance in line with global incentive program
• Provide financial analysis and insight required for contract negotiation with third party products
• Provide sales information and trend analysis by sales rep, by product and account for monthly and quarterly commercial reviews
• Support Country Director and commercial team on annual Price review with focus on special pricing agreement with some customer
• Support broader finance team during month end and quarter end with adhoc activities and analysis
• Prepare, analyze and report weekly, monthly, quarterly end close process, incl. weekly sales report by franchise
• Provide support to Senior Finance Manager during quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting process
• Provide specific support for SOX compliance and internal audit deliverables including Price and Quantity audit.
• Project support work as SME

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other business software tools required for professional financial analysis and communication. Knowledge of Power BI is added advantage
• Familiar with ERP accounting systems; preferable experience with COGNOS and Business Objects.
• An astute communicator with excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to develop relationships at all levels in the organization and directly influencing business objectives
• Strong presentation skills, problem solving skills, attention to details and ability to perform root cause analysis
• Excellent influencing, partnering skills and commercial mindset
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong passion for technology and how it can help improve business processes
• Proactive, self-driven with high career aspirations
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail

Required Education & Experience

• Finance/Accounting qualified (IT qualifications and/or CA/CPA qualifications will be highly regarded)
• 2+ years of experience in fast paced industry or Big 4 firm
• Exceptional analytical and insight skills (very strong Excel/modelling skills and be able to operate with multiple large data sets)
• Demonstrated knowledge of standard costing and systems
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, familiar with ERP accounting systems; preferable experience with BPCS, Exact Globe & SAP
• Able to communicate effectively with European and US colleagues

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

LivaNova values equality and celebrates diversity. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent and free from unlawful discrimination.

Our selection process is driven by the key demands/requirements for the role rather than bias or discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s sex, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability/handicap or medical condition, family status, sexual orientation, religion, color, ethnicity, race or any other legally protected classification.

Background Checks at LivaNova:

Upon successful completion of the hiring process an offer may be extended. Please note, LivaNova reserves the right to conduct background investigations and/or reference checks on all its potential employees, where permitted by local legislation. This offer therefore, is contingent upon a clearance of such a background investigation and/or reference check, and can be rescinded, where permitted by local legislation, based upon data received in the background check and/or refusal to cooperate with or any attempt to affect the results of this check. This process is not currently valid in Germany.

Notice to third party agencies:

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Services Agreement, we will not consider, or agree to, payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event that a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.