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Director, Transformation and Mergers NORAM

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, United States Position Type: Unfixed Term Job Function: Finance

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A world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics for more than 60 years, bioMerieux provides diagnostic solutions which determine the source of disease and contamination to improve patient health and ensure consumer safety. In North America we have more than 6,200 team members across 11 sites or subsidiaries, including Salt Lake City-based BioFire Diagnostics and one subsidiary in Montreal, Canada. Come and join a family-owned global company with a long-term vision, and a human-centered culture.

Description Position Summary: This position will be responsible for the establishment, with departmental heads, to drive process improvement activities and initiatives across the organization to create best in class processes to create efficiencies and eliminate non-value added activities, redundancies in work, with an emphasis on sustainable improvement. At times, this position may act in an advisory capacity in such process improvements and at times they may act as the lead in such improvements and initiatives.  This Director will work with other functions and champion an environment of both transformation and continuous process improvement in an effort to create a competitive advantage through financial and business excellence.

This individual will also liaise with others on global initiatives driving surrounding process performance improvement and transformational initiatives to increase overall effectiveness, efficiency, and necessary controls.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee process improvements within accounting and finance for North America, working closely with internal control.
• Identify process improvements needed in cross departments as it relates to internal controls and elevating current processes to best in class.
• Create, track, and drive KPIs for continuous improvement results in North America within the finance team and cross functional teams for finance driven strategies.
• Performs gap analysis to identify deficiencies in business processes and programs and recommends countermeasures to address gaps.
• Leads cross-functional project teams formed to implement change and drives continuous improvement.
• Establish and oversee the post -close transition process. Facilitate post close due diligence with data collection and organization as well as identifying short and medium term action plans.
• Perform various analytical and quantitative financial modelling for post-merger analysis.
• Plans budget and manages costs related to process improvement initiatives.
• Manage oversight of necessary ERP implementations and mergers between acquired company systems and SAP and other Biomerieux systems. Oversee training schedule of newly acquired employees on new platforms.
• Builds project plans, including resources, timeline, critical paths, etc.
• Manages, trains and mentors team members in cross departments and within finance.
• Mentorship of direct team and guide team members' goal development.  Responsible for hiring, training, and conducting performance reviews.
• Address and resolve conflicts or discrepancies between entities and departments, promoting a spirit of cooperation, mutual understanding, and shared goals.
• Create and maintain an action-oriented atmosphere in which team members have clarity on their objectives, are supportive of shared success, and challenge and motivate themselves and their team
• Other projects as assigned. Education, Skills, and Experienc e:
• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting and minimum five years of... For full info follow application link.