Philips Hiring for Senior Team Lead at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Full Time

Job Description

Job Title

Senior Team Lead – FP&A

#L1-PHILIN : Key areas of accountability:

• Lead / partner proactively in the Philips FP&A transformation and value creation journey; co-own the global FP&A priorities and identified CoE projects – both foundational and breakthrough projects, and provide project leadership and support for timely project delivery;
• Guide the FP&A team to pro-actively support strategy execution by delivering meaningful, accurate and timely in-depth business insights by forward-looking analysis, and by translating variances in financial and non-financial KPIs for senior leadership in Markets and Businesses to make fact-based sound business decisions.
• Own and deliver Month end closing, Monthly Performance Reporting, Latest Views, Forecast and Annual Operating Plan by effectively collaborating with multiple stakeholders across markets/businesses including Business Partners and other FP&A teams
• Own Philips GBS priorities of ontime delivery, first time right reporting, standardization and automation, customer satisfaction and employee engagement, and consistently maintain top-quartile GBS performance trends
• Engage with Philips heads of finances and business partners across markets/businesses, as a main point of contact to support key market/business goals, review regular performance feedback and implement countermeasures where needed
• Champion lean thinking and tools for operational excellence and productivity.
• Drive automation and standardization through systems and tools to maximize efficiency and actionable insights. Ensure quality, accuracy and integrity of information stored in our systems, enabling a single source of truth.
• Manage and supervise FP&A Team leads and analysts and ensure robust FP&A workforce management (knowledge management, competencies, coaching, and succession planning).
• Actively drive workload balancing and cross-team support to counter-act the workload peaks driven by the financial process cycles
• Through coaching, crisp objectives and training/talent development, build and maintain a robust and engaged team.

Technical/Functional Competencies:

• 14+ years professional experience leading Financial Planning & Analysis for large ($ bn +) global business portfolio in a matrix organization
• Demonstrate commercial mindset and strong business acumen, proven ability to deliver actionable insights in complex and global business set-ups
• Experience of having managed a large team of experienced finance professionals
• Advanced technical skills in Excel, ERP (SAP preferred) and PowerPoint
• Experience with reporting & analytical tools, like Power BI, Qlikview, Qliksense, Business-Intelligence environments, SQL, etc.
• Strong affinity to LEAN processes and tools

Behavioral Competencies:

• Strong people-focus, adept at inspiring, coaching and mentoring high energy and high capability finance team
• Effective communication and influencing skills, with proven collaboration mindset
• Can easily adapt to a fast paced change environment
• Proactive and action-oriented, continuous improvement mindset
• Not averse to deep-dive hands-on where needed
• Ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations and in absence of complete information
• Strong customer centricity

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