Philips Digital Director- FP & 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

370195847

Digital Director- FP&A

Your responsibilities

• Own and deliver Month end closing, Monthly Performance Reporting, Latest Views, Forecast and Annual Operating Plan by effectively collaborating with multiple stakeholders across regions/businesses including Business Partners and other FP&A teams
• Own and drive hub KPIs for operational excellence, continuous improvement, and people and capability building. As a member of Hub LT, co-own and drive hub priorities and agenda including cross-functional priorities towards end-to-end outcomes.
• Engage with Philips heads of finances and business partners across regions/businesses, as a main point of contact to support key region/business goals, review regular performance feedback and implement countermeasures where needed
• 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 nonfinancial KPIs for senior leadership in Regions and Businesses to make fact-based sound business decisions.
• Co-own and drive FP&A Strategic roadmap and Hoshin targets towards Business Accountable Operating Model, Driving Simplicity and Creating Impact. Lead FP&A transformation projects @ GBS Hub that aims to realize the strategic FP&A objectives.
• Champion lean thinking and tools for operational excellence and productivity.
• Drive improvement in digital landscape, 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.
• Coach and develop FP&A Senior Team leads, 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

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• 15+ 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 size (100+) of experienced finance professionals
• He/She should be a Program/Project & Change Management expert
• Advanced technical skills in Excel, ERP (SAP preferred) and PowerPoint
• Experience with reporting & analytical tools, like Power BI, Qlikview, Qliksense,Business-Intelligenceenvironments, SQL, etc.
• Strong affinity to LEAN processes and tools

Behavioral Competencies:

• Strong influencing ability, effective communication, with proven collaboration mindset
• Strong people-focus, adept at inspiring, coaching and mentoring high energy and high capability finance team.
• 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

In return, we offer you

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways: