Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

58596 - Associate director, Global R&D Labor economics and business support

The opportunity:

The Global R&D Labor economics lead is responsible for end-to-end FTE’s and Cost of labor economic analysis. The candidate will be instrumental in developing best practices in planning, reporting and KPI’s while collaborating with HR and R&D leaders to provide holistic view on trends and proactively drives business decision striving for efficiencies.

How you’ll spend your day:

• Lead Global R&D Labor Economics - COL and FTEs consolidation and analysis in all planning and reporting cycles
• Implementation of best practices and KPI’s including automation of calculations and analysis
• Catalyst in PLM/ resource management platform design, validation and implementation.
• Lead alignment on SAC/IPF HR/COL module and analyze implications on R&D module
• Work closely with GBS team support on FTE’s reporting and validation
• Simplify FTE’s allocations process
• BP to global R&D HR and finance.
• Responsibility for all R&D \inter business unit activities – Simplify I/BU process, leading transition to actual reporting with GBS, communication to all commercial and TGO counterparts

Your experience and qualifications:

• Experience and background in labor economics (BU focus or global support - TR, etc)
• Process management orientation and stakeholder management – must
• At least 8 years of proven experience in FPA roles
• BSc in Industrial Engineering or economics or business admin - must
• MA in economics / MBA – advantage
• IT orientation experience in Hyperion, SAP, SAC, BI - advantage
• Microsoft Office tools and especially excel - must
• Working in a global environment with many interfaces – Must
• Working independently – Must
• Ability to hold discussion and correspondence in English - Must