Finance Business Partner

Company Overview: If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone Role Summary: The position works closely with the plant manager and the leadership team in driving key initiatives and helping the company to achieve its goals and maximize returns on investment. The Business Partner will use data as a strategic asset to provide decision support, accurate planning and forecasting, and operational productivity and efficiency analysis. Further, this position will ensure accuracy and completeness in income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement planning and forecasting as well as timely variance analysis. Responsibilities & Requirements: - Analyze financial results and identify and communicate deviations to plan and forecast. Make recommendations for potential solution and improvements. Promote the active use of financial data to drive business success, and continuously identify and make visible all potential risks and opportunities. - Actively support and challenge/drive plant(s) manager / plant management team to grow enterprise value (growth > market, > margins, > ROIC, > FCF). Work alongside business partner to achieve outcomes. - Provide trusted finance decision support, including regular and ad hoc analysis to key stakeholders. Deliver insight into trends, risks, and opportunities. - Actively collaborate with accounting, shared service, treasury, and tax peers to ensure finance & accounting processes are executed and the function achieves its objectives. Seek out ambiguity and clarify. Identify areas lacking role clarity and provide solutions, escalate where required. - Identify / highlight performance trends, high & low performing products. Recommend and target actions and projects in collaboration with management team to improve product volumes and profitability. - Support local implementation of enterprise transfer pricing methodology, standard costing and product line reporting. - Support quarterly / 90 day forecast and monthly outlook processes. - Ensure forecast output is timely and thoroughly delivered. - Identify and develop key actions in partnership with management team required to achieve forecast (addressing gaps in performance). - Strike a pragmatic balance between risk and opportunity, ensuring an acceptable variance to forecast in actual. - In collaboration with management team, ensure actions are clearly identified, continuous improvement projects executed and delivered to meet objectives. Provide regular updates on performance and actions to achieve objectives. - Other duties as assigned. Preferred Experience / Skills: - Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration - Finance experience in an industrial manufacturing environment preferably as a finance business partner - Experience in operational finance - Strong analytical skills - Strong computer skills in MS platforms - Good written and verbal communication skills both Spanish and English. - CPA, CMA and/or MBA preferred - Experience working for multi-national companies - Experience with integrated ERP and BPC is desirable - BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 5-8 years relevant experience - US GAAP experience - Able to effectively communicate, interact, engage and carry influence management and director level leadership - Extremely high attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to package and present information in an effective and efficient manner to management and director level leadership - "Can do” attitude with the ability to constructively challenge the status quo and the experience to recommend and implement solutions to drive results - Successful experience in a matrix reporting environment **Req ID** : R-5487 **Job Family Group** : Finance & Accounting **Job Family** : FA Financial Planning & Analysis EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision