Finance Manager - Nuclear Medicine & Preclinical Imaging

Description Business
GE Technology Infrastructure

Business Segment
Technology Infrastructure - Healthcare

About Us
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare's expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring and life support systems, disease research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping physicians detect disease earlier and to tailor personalized treatments for patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of products and services that are improving productivity in healthcare and enhancing patient care by enabling healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $18 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 48,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.

Role Summary/Purpose
The Finance Manager - NUC/PCI is responsible for providing strategy P&L financial leadership for GE Molecular Imaging’s Nuclear Medicine and Pre-Clinical Imaging segments comprising $200MM in annual sales. This role serves as a business partner to the globally diverse operating team driving business initiatives, growth, strategy, and global profitability. This role manages a team of Financial Analysts and Finance Managers in smaller scope roles. Includes significant Finance responsibiliti

Essential Responsibilities
- Partner with business leader and staff to drive operating performance & act as champion for strategic initiatives within the organization
- Ownership for developing estimates, operating plans/forecasts/reviews, Growth Playbook (3-year Plan), SII (1-year Plan), and Op Plan
- Driving profitable growth by providing analysis of results and reporting key metrics while advising the leadership team on risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions
- Effectively manage/lead/coordinate/develop a team of Financial Analysts and/or Finance Managers determine clear roles & responsibilities, identify and action development needs to ensure superior finance business support
.- Work with Controllership & Operational teams to adopt Healthcare SOP’s; drive profitable growth in the region by providing analysis of results and identifying & tracking key metrics while advising the leadership team on risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions
- Work with the Controllership and Planning & Analysis teams to define the relevant IT platform and requirements to support analysis, improve data visibility and ensure controllership
- Lead cross-functional projects to drive simplification throughout the organization and to improve rigor in key Finance processes, reducing costs & improving profitability
- Provide Finance leadership for NPI activities (e.g. target costing, margin analysis, etc.)
- Drive quarterly indirect ledger ties to work with FP&A to identify areas of leakage
- Contribute to improving efficiencies and performance as well as providing quality financial information (e.g. report dashboard and VC/BC productivity). Actively participate with Operations Management to improve productivity and inventory management.
- Develop and improve financial processes: Finance reporting tools, Management reporting tools, budgeting and estimating processes, standard Production Cost set ups and analyses, Capital Investment.
- Assist with management reporting (regional and segment P&L’s) and communicate results to managers.
- Drive consistent usage of COFE, GLA (report net), and COGNOS Business Intelligence (B.I.) tools across GE Healthcare. Develop new reports for process improvements.

Qualifications/Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business Administration.- A minimum of 5 years progressive experience in finance and/or accounting position.- At least 2 years Leadership experience: leading team members balancing execution through others with inclusiveness, leveraging expertise, clear thinking, imagination, and external focus.- Experience leading cross-functional projects/process improvement within operations/finance function; able to quickly grasp new idea- Experience leading in a matrixed environment.- Experience working in global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows- Experience successfully leading cross-functional projects and process improvement within the operations/finance functions; able to quickly grasp new ideas.- Excellent communication skills: experience working across multiple levels (including executive level), functions and regions; able to clearly communicate complex financial information in a easy to understand manner; able to deliver message effectively verbally and in writing- Solid PC skills: experience with financial systems/applications (i.e.: Oracle, SAP, COGNOS, Business Objects, etc.), strong Excel skills in data compilation and aggregation (i.e. pivot tables, VLookup, and Macros)- You must apply online via www.gecareers.com- You must be willing to complete a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug screening.- You must be willing to work at our headquarters offices located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.- You must have legal authorization to work in the US without sponsorship

Additional Eligibility Qualifications
GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

Desired Characteristics
- Graduate of GE's Financial Management Program (FMP), Experienced Financial Leadership Program (EFLP) or Corporate Audit Staff (CAS); or graduate of other financial leadership programs- Masters’ degree in Business Administration- Strong analytic skills: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change- Local candidate preferred- Previous experience with GE financial systems- Basic understanding of financial compliance: SOX, GAAP- Trained and/or certified in process improvement methodology such as LEAN or Six Sigma- Local Candidate preferred- Confidence / Assertiveness: strong influencing skills across business functions; confidence to approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend position; for example, work closely with business leaders to achieve business objectives while driving controllership/GE Values- Adaptable/flexible: being open to change (positive or negative) in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situationsIntegrity: Accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others