Senior Manager, Finance Analytics

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

In this role, you will be part of the Corporate Finance team playing a crucial role in leading data analytics processes and business intelligence (BI) projects, both financial and operational, aligned to overall Company priorities and initiatives. This role will drive multiple transformation projects designed to improve Novanta’s financial management and business operations processes. The candidate must be a “hands-on” leader who enjoys challenges and thrives in a demanding and sometimes underdeveloped environment

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and organize cross functional teams to complete BI projects that help drive Novanta’s digital transformation. This involves balancing and prioritizing multiple projects at once, influencing decisions, and advancing projects.
• Solve data and metrics challenges (both financial and operational data), to help automate and enhance analytics of critical company information. This includes data quality improvements, data validation, metric definition and design, and data processes & sourcing
• Be a subject matter expert on the data available in our BI tools (examples: sales segmentation, backlog, profit margins, inventory management, pricing, product quality, material purchases, etc.); provide data analytics support for company-wide FP&A processes, including routine and ad hoc reporting
• Document user requirements and manage priorities and communication between BI team and the business teams
• Analyze complex data (from various sources) and provide insights for users as well as IT team. Identify meta data and master data needed for the successful outcome of BI projects and maintenance of existing BI tools. Establish processes for organizing and maintaining that master/meta data.
• Support other process improvements across global Finance processes, focusing on data and reporting

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 preferred
• Broad and deep functional experience in financial planning and analysis, financial management, and data analysis, typically acquired through 5-8 years of experience.
• Exceptional financial, analytical, and modeling skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently; hands-on individual contributor
• Advanced or Intermediate experience using BI tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.)
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Tools (Excel, PPT) and Enterprise Performance Management tools (HFM, Oracle EPM, etc.)
• Demonstrated success in project management, including scoping, resource and time management, working cross-functionally, and achieving deadlines
• Demonstrated problem solving & process improvement experience
• Ideally experience in manufacturing sector
• 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.

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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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