Position Overview & Purpose:

Fresenius Medical Care, an $19 billion company, and largest Kidney Care company in the world, is seeking a Country Finance Business Partner – Care Delivery International (m/w/d) to join our Global Finance Team. 

Country Finance Business Partners are an insightful and trusted co-pilot to the business and function by pro-actively providing future-oriented analytics, overseeing and driving business performance and implementing strategy - always with the focus on value creation. They liaise with the CoEs and GBS to ensure first-class support and sustainable operational excellence by combining business acumen with in-depth finance expertise and resolut issues as part of the credit management process.

The role will require strong collaboration across both Finance and non-Finance teams to ensure objectives are met.  The ability to understand the underlying business, influence performance drivers and communicate financial outcomes to all stakeholders is key to success.

Tasks and Activities:

Proactively drive and provide highly valuable input from finance perspective on a broad range of business topics such as (not limited):

• Business result commenting

• Interpret ad-hoc business analyses and recommend actions

• Strategic planning and decision support for the region (incl. capital allocation, business development and M&A)

• Credit management

• Working capital controlling

• Provide forward-looking decision support

• Ensure the execution of the strategic plan

• Interface with Operations, Procurement, IT, HR&Payroll, GSS and ensure involvement of CoEs

• Preform administrative topics that may remain with the local business partner

This will be achieved through:

• Strategic planning and tactical initiatives oversight

• Provide inputs for local actual / ad-hoc reporting & planning e.g., non-financial KPIs, to the extent not provided by single source of truth (FP&A)

Desired Profile & Qualifications:

• A strong track record of delivering tangible business performance improvements

• A proven ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams to achieve common aims

• Ability to think strategically

• Excellent communication skills; spoken and written English

• Ability to build relationships through doing the right thing

• Pro-active self-starter

• Hold a relevant Finance qualification