Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (Aesthetic Medical Device)
Bausch Health Companies Inc. · Bridgewater, NJ · 2 wk ago
FinanceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Own and standardize the Solta FP&A operating model, including planning cadence, forecasting methodologies, assumptions, templates, and analytical standards
- Ensure consistent execution of budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and performance reporting across regions
- Coordinate FP&A deliverables across regional teams to ensure quality, comparability, and timeliness
- Own FP&A governance of cost center structures and usage across regions to ensure consistent planning, reporting, and enterprise-level comparability
- Apply a global perspective to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and best practices across markets
- Translate regional learnings into scalable Solta-wide insights to support leadership decision-making
- Provide FP&A leadership and standardization for regional commercial finance teams, ensuring consistent methodologies, assumptions, and performance analytics across regions
- Establish and govern common revenue and sales forecasting frameworks, enabling regions to manage forecasts locally while ensuring comparability, rigor, and transparency at the Solta level
- Challenge assumptions and outcomes through cross-regional analysis, highlighting risks, opportunities, and performance drivers for leadership review
- Partner closely with Corporate Accounting to ensure alignment between actual results, forecasts, and management performance reporting
- Prepare and analyze close results for VP Finance review, including analysis of key judgments, estimates, unusual items, and true-ups impacting the Solta P&L
- Ensure forecast-to-actual bridges, margin walk analyses, and variance explanations are consistent, well-documented, and suitable for Corporate and leadership review
- Support continuous improvement in forecast accuracy and actuals transparency by reinforcing clear handoffs and communication between FP&A and Accounting
- Own FP&A oversight of the full Solta P&L, ensuring end-to-end coherence across revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and key below-the-line items
- Challenge assumptions, trends, and outcomes across all functional areas (Commercial, Operations, Marketing, R&D, G&A, and Corporate allocations)
- Identify cross-functional trade-offs and structural drivers impacting overall profitability and cash generation
- Ensure leadership discussions focus on enterprise outcomes, not siloed functional results
- Own execution of Solta’s annual budget, periodic forecasts, and long-range planning processes
- Consolidate regional plans into clear, decision-oriented views for leadership
- Ensure forecasts are analytically sound, well-documented, and aligned with operating assumptions
- Partner with Finance Systems, IT, and Corporate FP&A to enhance planning and reporting tools with appropriate governance
- Support Solta M&A and business development initiatives through valuation, synergy, integration, and sensitivity modeling
- Provide analytical support across diligence, internal approvals, and post-transaction tracking without deal approval authority
- Partner with Global Strategic Marketing to develop financial inputs for new and upcoming products
- Support pricing, margin structure, launch economics, and product profitability analysis for both product and service lines
- Evaluate product and service cost structures, identifying opportunities to improve profitability, scalability, and overall lifecycle returns
- Lead and develop a global FP&A team, directly and through matrixed regional teams, building analytical, commercial, and business partnering capability
Qualifications
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field. MBA or CPA preferred
- Minimum 10 years of progressive FP&A or commercial finance experience in a multi-region environment
- Demonstrated experience leading planning, forecasting, and performance management processes
- Strong analytical, communication, and people leadership skills
- PREFERRED: Experience in healthcare, medical devices, or global commercial organizations
- PREFERRED: Experience driving FP&A standardization, transformation, or advanced analytics initiatives