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Edwards Lifesciences Senior Manager, Finance in North Ryde, Australia

Finance

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Patients are at the heart of what we do at Edwards Lifesciences. Our Finance teams work hard to optimize our current and long-term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus. As part of the team, whether providing analysis, forecasting, or reporting financial information, your application of accurate financial business practices will play a fundamental role in how we impact the quality of life for patients all over the world.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for all accounting, reporting, analysis and statutory compliance activities for ANZ. This includes direct and indirect taxation, banking, treasury, internal/external audits.

  • Advise general manager and commercial leaders on financial and operational issues

  • Set finance strategy to optimize business processes by assessing business needs and developing, proposing and implementing solutions

  • Partner with APAC Controller and FP&A head on implementation of best practices and leveraging the Business Service Center in Kuala Lumpur

  • Act as liaison to Corporate functions and Business Unit leaders in headquarters’ office in Irvine.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required

  • Advanced degree and/or professional certification (CMA, CA, CPA)

  • 10+ years progressive experience in leadership and people management positions

  • Healthcare or regulated industry and/or international experience preferred

Additional Skills:

  • Entrepreneurial spirit; thrives in high-energy, fast-paced environments

  • Excellent knowledge of financial accounting and accounting standards

  • Experience working in a medium size global business

  • Resourceful, independent, critical thinker

  • Strong communicator skilled at messaging through data-driven insights

  • Expert understanding of accounting and financial processes and curiosity to look beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems

  • Transparent leader with a high level of integrity and track record of building trust-based relationships internally and externally

  • Adaptable change agent who activates team to drive Finance transformation

  • Proficiency in financial systems and tools and ability to leverage technologies

  • Recruit, retain and develop a bench of agile talent, incl. high potential employees

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