Finance Manager

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Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As the Finance Manager at our Kamen plant (near Dortmund), you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Providing strategic and operational financial leadership to the Kamen Plant team and direct support to the Plant Director
• Being a strong business partner supporting the plant financial scorecard, continuous improvement initiatives, inventory/production analysis, and other short- to long term plant financial decisions
• Leading weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual processes to support plant rhythms, month end close activities, QORs/MREs, OP and Strat Plans
• Collaborating with the business segments and Global Supply Chain organizations to support investment analysis at the site
• Analyze plant spend and work with the teams to identify, communicate and execute productivity improvement opportunities
• Regularly measuring and assessing plant performance (weekly/monthly/quarterly) to predict results and drive corrective actions to meet targets
• Developing understanding of impacts to the plant financials driven by sales volume, mix, demand planning and supply planning dynamics to drive productivity at the site
• Monitoring external economic factors to support the plant management decision process
• Developing and driving end-to-end processes, analyses, and tools to standardize reporting to support the site
• Ensuring compliance to Global Financial Standards and Statutory requirements

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Finance or Business Administration
• Extensive experience working in finance organizations within manufacturing
• Fluent German & English skills

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• CPA, CMA or equivalent international certification
• Experience in the MedTech Industry
• Responsible for Income Statements
• Leadership and collaboration skills to engage with business stakeholders and drive alignment on financial assumptions
• Ability to lead through others and influence
• Pragmatic, results-oriented with a strong bias towards executing with speed, agility, and quality
• Record of career progression with increasing levels of responsibility

Work location:

• Onsite in Kamen, NRW, DE

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international

Please submit your application in English!

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.

Supporting Your Well-being 

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Diversity & Inclusion

(*) We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.

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