Finance Business Partner

**The**Opportunity**:
Pune (India) Avantor Business Center (ABC) Financial Planning & Analysis team partners with Avantor leadership teams in driving the Avantor Key Strategic Business Priorities. ABC FP&A team enables Avantor leadership team in effective decision making by providing timely, accurate and actionable insights globally for all the markets, regions, businesses, and functions.

Sr. Analyst/Specialist FP&A is a member of Avantor ABC Pune FP&A family and partner with global leaders both operations & finance in driving various key priorities such as IOP, Forecast, and month end performance analysis etc by dealing with various functional areas of finance such as Revenue, Cost, margins, Working Capital & Capex etc. This position will also actively partner with multiple stakeholders including operations team on a day to day basis to meet the ongoing business requirements. Sr. Analyst/Specialist is expected to act as process champion/Subject Matter Expert of the assigned area and proactively enable his/her business partners in effective decision making by providing necessary insights by assessing Past & Current performance of the business.

The Sr. Analyst/Specialist is accountable to deliver defined Service Line Agreements (SLA) of his/her role and assist Pune FP&A leadership team in managing the lean culture of the organization and create global impact through change projects that drive automation, standardization, digitization, and analytics. This position Works on highly complex assignments with extensive latitude for independent judgment.

This position requires strong business partnering skills with in-depth finance / business acumen, data management, reporting and analysis expertise, influencing and change management skills.
The position reports to Manager/Team Lead of Financial Planning & Analysis at Avantor Business Center (ABC) Pune and will have matrix alignment with onshore business partners.

**Job Description**:
his position is for Global Single Use and is responsible for developing long range plan financial statements, modelling forecasts and updating month-end reporting packages to executive management. This position will work closely with the finance and site management. This position requires a high degree of expertise to investigate and analyze financial information, and the ability to clearly communicate relevant conclusions to Senior Management. This individual should possess a keen attention to detail and the ability to manage priorities in a fast paced environment. Relationship building, excellent communication skills and accurate financial analysis is critical to success in this position.

**What we're looking for**:

- ** Education**: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance with Professional Certification of CA/CMA/CPA
- ** Experience**: Minimum 3 or more years relevant FP&A experience
- Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills. High degree of curiosity and willingness to analyze details. Maintain organized and detail records to support analysis.
- Critical to success in this role is the ability to respond quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
- Background in pharmaceutical, life science or medical device industries is preferred

**Who you are**:
Build financial models to help manage our planning/forecasting.
- Ensure the accurate and timely reporting of our key financial reporting package to executive leadership.
- Explain key drivers of our financial results.
- Participate in month-end activity including account analysis and preparation of the financial statements.
- Analyze cost drivers and impacts to the business.
- Build and maintain complex spreadsheets and models to track various global metrics and perform ad hoc financial analysis.
- Perform financial analysis on various projects; calculate ROR, IRR and payback.
- Participate and support our annual budget and quarterly forecast process.
- Proactively find solutions to root cause financial gaps and share financial forecast implications with the finance team.
- Assist the finance department on ad hoc projects or requests for financial information
- Develop and maintain reports in various systems.
- Tracks and maintains accurate financial validation on key strategic initiatives
- Analyzes global business performance and explains deviations from plan and trends
- Collaborates with Finance and Accounting to ensure financial forecasting accurately reflects trends, anticipates challenges and mitigates risk
- Partner with Commercial teams and proactively work with these teams to uncover potential financial impacts to the business
- Participates in the monthly financial closing process to ensure results accurately reflect business performance
- Develops financial models for ad hoc projects and investments with cost/benefit/payback analysis
- Pulses daily metrics to identify trends/issues
- Performs other duties as assigned.

**How you will create an impact**:

- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and