Manager, Finance Business Partnering

About This Job

Location:

Virginia Beach, VA;
Richmond, VA; or Research Triangle Park, NC

Department:
Finance

Schedule:

Full‑Time, Monday – Friday, 8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (ET)

Clinical Status:
Non-Clinical

The Manager, Finance Business Partnering serves as the primary finance business partner to assigned Life Net Health business units, delivering financial insight, planning support, and decision‑making guidance to operational leaders. Partners with R&D, Life Sciences, and Global Donor Services leadership to support budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. Develops financial models to evaluate business opportunities and drive operating margin improvement across assigned business units.

• Financial Planning & Analysis:
  Manages financial deliverables for assigned business units including month‑end close, variance analysis, annual budget, and quarterly forecast processes. Prepares business unit management reporting including monthly and quarterly business reviews and operational dashboards. Partners with business unit leaders to evaluate financial tools and processes that improve planning accuracy and efficiency.
• Business Partnering:
  Partners with assigned business unit leadership teams to evaluate business opportunities and provide financial leadership on critical topics including pricing analysis, cost management, and operating margin improvement. Serves as the primary finance contact for all matters impacting the R&D, Life Sciences, and Global Donor Services functions, including operating expenses, project expenses, capital expenditures and overall headcount.
• People Leadership:
  Provides oversight to assigned team by supervising, guiding and directing employees to be effective team members. Facilitates developing training materials for internal staff as well as external customers. Ensures that everyone is equipped with the right skills, tools, and talents necessary for executing their duties. Uses the established people processes (performance, development, succession, and career) to ensure that their team’s level of performance and capabilities meet current and future standards.
• Financial Modeling:
  Develops financial models to support business unit investment decisions and operational performance improvement using financial metrics (NPV, IRR, Op Margin $). Partners with cross‑functional teams to ensure consistency and reliability of key financial inputs in business cases. Supports R&D leadership team to deliver cost‑effective product development and innovation and support capital allocation prioritization process.

• Minimum requirements:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance.
• Seven (7) years of related work experience including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis.
• Three (3) years of leadership or management experience with responsibility for direct reports’ performance (includes demonstrated experience influencing senior leaders without authority).

• Master’s degree
• Five (5) years of related work experience in the medical device industry.
• Experience with SAP ERP / general ledger.

• Technology / Systems:
  Proficient in Microsoft Office, advanced Excel skills, proficiency with SAP.
• People Development:
  Actively engages in talent management practices (selection, promotion, development and engagement) to cultivate a workforce that is well aligned with current and emerging talent needs.
• Relationship Management:
  Builds and sustains partnerships across organizational boundaries and functions as well as outside the organization to achieve common goals and outcomes.
• Research / Problem Solving:
  Leads thorough analysis of situations with appropriate attention to detail. Understands big picture by considering impact at multiple levels of the system.
• Strategic Thinking:
  Highly analytical, going beyond traditional finance function to drive strategic insights to key business leaders; clear, comprehensive understanding of the link between department/function and business strategy.
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Written, verbal and presentation; ability to engage, inspire and…