Details
Posted: 26-Apr-22
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Salary: Open
Internal Number: R01084465
Job Description:
BD Finance Leader, Corporate FP&A
Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World
Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it's equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 96,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.
"For more than 30 years at 3M, I've seen firsthand how it's a place where curious, creative and collaborative people thrive and build a rewarding career. As a leader in this company, my goal is to ensure each 3Mer sees and feels the positive impact we're making around the world" - Mike Roman, chief executive officer and chairman, 3M
This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military environments to a 3M career.
The Impact You'll Make in this Role
BD Finance leader, Corporate FP&A will work with the relevant finance teams in Corporate and Business Groups to create the overall finance framework for Corporate Development activities of 3M. The successful candidate will engage with different finance organizations to develop and maintain enterprise level and business level financial models related to corporate development scenarios.
- Develop and maintain an enterprise level financial model focused on growth, margin and cash partnership with Corporate FP&A teams. Develop and maintain a business level financial model focused on growth, margin and cash in partnership with Business finance teams.
- Partner with Corporate Treasury team to create an enterprise level capital structure model covering leverage, liquidity and rating agency considerations.
- Partner with Corporate Development team to develop scenarios and model impact of potential acquisitions, divestitures and investment transactions on the enterprise level financial model
- Collaborate with appropriate corporate and business teams including corporate development, integration management office on analyzing stranded cost in relation to modeled scenarios. Partner with relevant finance teams to ensure stranded costs and related cost reduction actions get factored into regular operating plan cycles.
- Partner with Controllership team on financial due-diligence items and transaction related financial actions including carve-outs, purchase accounting, gain/ loss accounting and finance integration
- Partner with Finance IT team to develop tools and data sets to drive visibility into financial and planning items. Develop and implement a strategy for self-serve data analysis tools.
- Conduct external benchmarking analysis of recent corporate development transactions and incorporate multiple valuation methodologies to support potential transactions. Develop financial KPIs/ benchmarks to ensure corporate objectives are within targeted ranges.
Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
- Ten (10) years experience working in finance organizations or advising CFOs on Finance transformation, process improvements, financial planning redesign, service delivery model design and implementation, and other essential elements of the finance team
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
- Master's degree in Finance or Business (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
- Experience with finance transformation and process improvement using leading edge technologies incorporating robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence
- Must have advanced knowledge with general accounting, processes and key terminology related to accounting concepts
- Understand advancements in technology and innovations which are happening across digital, predictive analytics, data visualizations, robotics and artificial intelligence to influence Finance direction
- Understanding of finance technologies (process, planning analytics, core Financial, BI tools) and ERP technologies (SAP), SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), Anaplan, Blackline, Robotic Process Automation (Blue Prism, etc.)
- Experience with finance operating models and supporting organization structures, and process best practices
- Experience with the design and implementation of financial systems
- Experience in continuous improvement programs, root cause analysis, and project management
- Outstanding integrity, initiative, creativity, and passion
- Project management for large scale business transformation
- Ability to assess, develop and have experience working with systems and implementing internal controls (Sarbanes-Oxley requirements)
Travel: Up to 15% domestic
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).
Supporting Your Well-being
3M offers many programs to help you live your best life - both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.
Resources for You
For more details on what happens before, during and after the interview process, check out the Insights for Candidates page at 3M.com/careers.
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Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.
Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M's business and performance goals. You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.
Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/
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