Finance Business Partner - North Latam

Job Title

Finance Business Partner - North Latam

Job Description

Finance Business Partner - North Latam

The Finance Business Partner is responsible for leading financial planning for Colombia and Puerto Rico, including budgeting, forecasting, and business analysis to ensure alignment with corporate objectives. The role conducts complex financial analysis, such as profitability and ROI assessments, to inform high-impact decisions to improve financial performance. The role acts as a strategic advisor to senior business leaders, providing financial insights to shape business strategy, with limited supervision. The role also monitors financial health, ensures compliance with internal controls, and leads initiatives to improve financial processes and systems.

Your role:

• Monitors the financial health of assigned business units by tracking key performance indicators, identifying emerging risks and opportunities, and working with business leaders to develop and implement corrective actions.

• Works with limited supervision and broad guidelines, regularly applying independent judgment on matters of significance to drive project success and compliance.

• Acts as a trusted advisor to business leaders by providing strategic financial insights and recommendations, helping to shape business strategies and ensuring that financial considerations are fully integrated into decision-making processes.

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams (Commercial Team, FP&A, PTP, Accounting, Order Management, Sales Support) to evaluate the financial impact of business initiatives, such as product launches, market expansions, and cost-reduction programs, ensuring that financial risks and opportunities are fully understood and with compliance to financial accounting principles.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired +5 years of experience as a regional Finance Business Partner in Latin America.
• Your skills include Crisis Management, Forecasting, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Risk Management, Budget Management, and stakeholder partnership.
• You have a degree in Finance, Business Administration, or Engineering. MBA is a plus.
• You’re have experience in Power BI and Excel Advanced.
• You Speak Bilingual English.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role in our office in Panama and Colombia.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

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