Nobel Biocare Finance Director, North America (Brea, CA)

JOB SUMMARY:

The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis is responsible for leading the budgeting and forecasting processes across the North American region, financial evaluations, due diligence and strategies on driving the financial growth of the North America business, with a strong emphasis on commercial finance. This role involves financial evaluations, due diligence, and strategies to drive the financial growth of the North America business, particularly in collaboration with the Commercial Sales Leader.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Commercial Finance Leadership: Partner closely with the Commercial Sales Leader to support sales reporting, business partnering, and ensuring all stakeholders on the finance side are aligned and effective.

• P&L Ownership: Own the North American commercial P&L, ensuring accurate financial performance management and alignment with business goals.

• Performance Improvement: Drive performance against key metrics with a focus on continuous improvement of commercial performance and processes.

• Strategic Vision Execution: Create and achieve a desired future state through influence on company values, individual and group goals, execution of plans, value reinforcements, and systems.

• Executive presence: able to immediately establish credibility within the organization and with customers and partners. Simply put, gets things done.

• Working effectively with both direct and indirect (those outside the formal line of authority) organizations to accomplish company goals; taking actions that respect the needs and contributions of others.

• Global Experience: leading and operating successfully in a global environment and being a change agent for creating cultural awareness.

• Team Development: experienced developing team members’ skills and competencies by planning effective development activities, stretch assignments related to current and future positions and needs.

• Lead through Influence: able to work closely with functional support organizations to effectively achieve goals. Presenting ideas effectively both verbally and in writing. Able to motivate and inspire both direct and indirect organizations through effectively articulating the opportunities and challenges throughout the organization.

• Leadership Development: develops the team with the skills required to be successful; promotes the behavior supporting the company’s values. Utilizes P4G/D4G to develop the team. Provides timely and continuous feedback to the team; create individual development plans for the key talents to prepare them for future opportunities.

• Project Management: leads projects across cross functional teams to increase overall organizational efficiency.

• Manages monthly, quarterly and year-end closings; ensure accurate and timely submissions to the HQ.

• Analyzes and evaluates monthly financial performance in relation to budget and prior periods and forecasts. 

• Provides accurate explanations for variances and support country managers to determine countermeasures.

• Performs ad hoc financial control duties as required.

• The individual must be an independent thinker and self-starter with the bandwidth to multi-task and work on several key projects at a given time. It is important that the individual have superior interpersonal skills with an ability to work with people at multiple levels both inside and outside of the Implant Opcos.

• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

• As Officer of the Board of Nobel US, the role has the responsibility and legal duty to implement whatever measures are necessary to ensure that products, practices, processes, or other activities comply with the law.