Senior Finance Analyst

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific.  Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

Business Overview

Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations. Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development and Corporate Marketing. The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization’s financial success.

Summary

As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will be part of the Corporate Finance team playing a crucial role in analyzing financial data, developing forecasts, and providing valuable insights to support strategic decision-making across the organization.  This includes the executive leadership, the Board of Directors, as well as company’s investors and shareholders.  You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide essential support to the company's budgeting and forecast processes, and will help track, analyze, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs), as well as provide ad-hoc support, creating financial analysis and reports on a variety of topics, all of which executive leadership uses to drive business performance and strategy.  In this role you will be empowered to identify and deliver process improvements, and to initiate projects that help improve efficiency and usefulness of financial and investor relations reports.  In this role you will get regular exposure to senior company leaders and will gain a valuable high-level perspective on the overall performance and management of the entire corporation, as well as investor relations. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate and timely financial insight and analysis to support reporting needs of executive leadership, Board of Directors, as well as investors and shareholders (investor relations).
• Support financial planning and analysis processes company-wide, including budgeting, forecasts, data analytics, KPI tracking, and preparing management presentations.
• Deliver accurate data analytics to Finance leadership and Company leadership in areas such as sales, backlog, margins, inventory, and other areas.
• Collect, aggregate, and analyze investor relations information and market data as needed.
• Support and lead other Corporate Finance processes, ad-hoc analysis requests and/or projects as needed.
• Support process improvements across global FP&A and Finance processes, driving efficiencies and accuracy, ultimately improving decision-making at Novanta.

General Tasks

• Maintain strict compliance with the quality, environmental and occupational health and safety regulations and implementation of the instructions of the quality, environmental management and/or occupational health and safety officer.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• BS degree in Finance or Accounting
• Minimum 3-5 years experience in some of the following areas: financial planning and analysis, financial management, and data analysis
• Exceptional financial, analytical, and modeling skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently; hands-on individual contributor
• Advanced Microsoft Tools (Excel, PPT) and Enterprise Performance Management tools (HFM, Oracle EPM, etc.)
• Experience using Business Intelligence tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.) is preferred
• Demonstrated success in process improvement initiatives, including problem identification & mitigation
• Demonstrated success in project management, including scoping, resource and time management, working cross-functionally, and achieving project targets
• Ideally experience in industrial manufacturing market
• Excellent written, verbal, analytical skills; strong interpersonal skills
• Self- started with leader mentality, motivated by curiosity and learning, and thriving in the dynamic and flexible environment of a growing company.

Travel Requirements   

• None

Physical Requirements

• Mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer.
• Ability to use vison to read computer screen and read printed materials

(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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