About Medline:
Medline has a rich legacy of 100+ years of business in the Healthcare segment. We at Medline India have completed around 12 years of our operations and currently have a 1000+ strong and growing team of technology, finance & and business support professionals who support our businesses worldwide towards a mission to make healthcare run better.
We are an organization with a conducive work environment, ample opportunities to learn, contribute and grow and a highly empowered & engaged team. We encourage our people to share their best ideas and create new
opportunities for our customers and ourselves to work together to solve today's toughest healthcare challenges.
These are testimonies to Medline been consistently ranked as Best Employers in multiple categories by Forbes for the last couple of years. We have also been listed at #16 place on Fortune 500 list with $20 Billion sales last year. At Medline India # PeopleMatter
What do we offer :
- An employee-friendly work culture, fair & transparent practices, continuous learning and competitive pay and leading employee benefits.
- Encouragement to transition to different streams / roles as everything is in-house
- Prospects to work on latest & greatest technologies, value added analytics
- High focus on quality and dynamic work environment with abundant career development opportunities
- Flexible work schedule ensuring a perfect work life balance
- Ample employee-centric benefits fostering employee health and wellbeing
- Inspiration to create positive social & environment change.
Overview
Medline is seeking an experienced and high-impact
FP&A Manager to lead financial planning, analysis, and reporting for its
International Business.
This role is responsible for driving financial decision support in close partnership with business leaders, identifying opportunities to improve performance, and delivering high-quality, actionable insights to senior management.
The FP&A Manager acts as a critical bridge between US corporate strategy and regional execution, with a specific focus on Europe, Canada, APAC, and LATAM. The role extends beyond traditional financial reporting, focusing on building robust financial frameworks that enhance regional performance and drive enterprise-wide efficiency.
This position leads a team of finance professionals and plays a key role in transforming finance from a transactional support function into a strategic, data-driven value center, embedding digital capabilities, automation, and AI-led insights into FP&A processes to enhance speed, accuracy, and business impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Regional Financial Management
- Act as a trusted finance partner to International Finance VP, providing actionable insights that support business growth and operational decision-making.
- Partner in the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), long-range planning, and quarterly rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with global guidance.
- Oversee end-to-end P&L management across multiple geographies, including revenue, cost control, and margin optimization.
- Drive standardization of financial processes and reporting frameworks across regions to ensure consistency and comparability.
- Finance Transformation, Systems & Process Excellence
- Lead finance transformation initiatives aimed at simplifying processes, improving turnaround time, and enhancing accuracy.
- Drive end-to-end automation of management reporting by building scalable and standardized reporting structures across regions.
- Develop and implement automated dashboards and reporting packs using tools such as Power BI/Fabric, reducing manual intervention and dependency on spreadsheets.
- Continuously accelerate the management reporting cycle by streamlining data flows, eliminating redundancies, and improving data availability timelines.
- Leverage Oracle EPM tools including PBCS (Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service) and FCCS (Financial Consolidation and Close Service) to strengthen planning, consolidation, and reporting processes.
- Perform detailed reconciliations between Oracle systems (PBCS/FCCS) and management reporting outputs, highlighting variances and driving closure through structured root-cause analysis.
- Ensure alignment between financial systems and reporting outputs, maintaining data integrity and a single source of truth across platforms.
- Expand GCC capabilities by transitioning high-impact activities from regional teams into the centralized finance hub.
- Advanced Analytics & Decision Support
- Deliver in-depth variance analysis, focusing on root cause identification, forward-looking insights, and scenario planning.
- Shift from descriptive to predictive and prescriptive analytics using advanced data models and AI-supported techniques.
- Develop forecasting models that incorporate business drivers, macroeconomic trends, and risk scenarios.
- Partner with controllership and operations teams to develop robust reporting on working capital, including receivables, payables, and inventory KPIs.
- Enable data-driven decision-making through automated dashboards, KPI tracking, and real-time performance insights.
- Stakeholder & Leadership Management
- Lead and manage a high-performing team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Establish clear performance metrics, conduct regular reviews, and build strong succession and development plans.
- Navigate a complex matrix organization, balancing regional business priorities with global corporate requirements.
- Build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, including operations, sales, IT, and corporate finance teams.
- Champion a data-driven culture by enabling stakeholders with self-service analytics and intuitive reporting tools.
- Understand stakeholder requirements, set expectations, proactively address concerns, and escalate appropriately.
- Monitor progress against objectives and provide regular, actionable feedback.
- Digital Finance, AI & Automation Enablement
- Drive adoption of AI and advanced analytics to enhance forecasting accuracy, automate variance analysis, and improve insight generation.
- Identify and implement automation opportunities across FP&A processes including data extraction, reconciliation, and reporting (RPA, Power Automate, or native ERP capabilities).
- Build intelligent reporting frameworks integrating financial and operational data to deliver near real-time insights.
- Champion a data-driven culture by enabling stakeholders with self-service analytics and intuitive reporting tools.
- Explore and deploy emerging technologies such as GenAI-driven commentary, AI copilots, and predictive dashboards to improve productivity and decision quality.
Technical & Professional Requirements
- Chartered Accountant (CA) / Cost Management Accountant / MBA from Tier-2 Institute
- 12+ years of post-qualification experience, including significant exposure to GCC/GIC environments.
- Strong understanding of US GAAP and financial reporting for listed entities.
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems such as Oracle and SAP.
- Strong working knowledge of Oracle EPM tools including PBCS and FCCS, particularly in planning, consolidation, reconciliation, and reporting.
- Advanced data handling and analytical skills using Power BI, Power Query, Advanced Excel, Fabric, or similar tools
- Experience driving digital finance transformation initiatives within a GCC/GIC environment.
