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 highimpact
Manager Finance to lead financial planning, analysis, and reporting for
Distribution Business, Supply Chain Solutions, Sales and Master Data Management areas.
This role will be responsible for providing and leading financial decision support with business partners, researching and recommending options to improve business results, and delivering highquality insights to senior management. to scale processes, and support by delivering quick wins ,build advanced analytics, and work closely with senior stakeholders, and drive Strategic initiatives that impact Top as well as Bottom line (GM &AGM).Additionally this role will also drive endtoend data excellence, process governance, and analytical transformation across business functions as part of Master Data Management Support.
The role will specifically focus on Financial performance of Sales, Supply Chain Solutions and work closely with the VPs of Finance.
Key Responsibilities
- Distribution and Supply Chain Solutions, Commercial Finance:
- Own and execute Business as usual reporting and analysis responsibilities for Distribution and Commercial Business, ensuring timeliness and accuracy
- Identify, analyze, and clearly explain variances vs Plan, Outlook, and Prior Year, highlighting key performance drivers and risks.
- Create, maintain, and continuously enhance KPIs and dashboards.
- Own monthly financial reviews, present financial performance dashboards with commentary and insights
- Drive, and Lead the AOP, Plan and Outlook processes; work closely with onshore stakeholders while ensuring deadlines are met at all times.
- Ideate strategic initiatives that directly impact Medline's P&L.
- Work to scale up support by delivering quick wins, proactive analysis and point of views for the VPs.
- Create Operational efficiencies by looking for automation opportunities, consolidation and standardization.
- Act as a finance expert and trusted advisor to divisional business partners; ensure seamless coordination with stakeholders
- Master Data Management responsibilities:
- Drive endtoend data excellence, process governance, and analytical transformation across business functions.
- Facilitate critical thinking and ability to influence stakeholders
- Work closely with the onshore MDM team to present Business Cases needed for approval for change requests,
- Lead MDM strategy, architecture, and implementation across Finance domains working closely with the Tech Lead
- Oversee MDM workflows, stewardship, metadata, and lineage documentation.
- Collaborate with IT, Data Engineering, and Business teams to ensure a unified source of truth.
- 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.
Qualifications & Experience
- CA / CMA / Cost & Management Accountant or MBA from a Tier2 institute
- 12+ years of postqualification experience in management reporting, budgeting, and forecasting
- 4+ years of experience managing teams of 5+ members
- Strong handson experience with Oracle PBCS / Oracle EPM and SAP
- Advanced analytics experience using Tableau, Power BI, and/or Alteryx
- 4+ years of experience operating at FP&A Lead / Manager or above level
- Proven experience supporting senior leadership and complex, multistakeholder environments
Skills Required
Power Bi, Alteryx, Tableau, Sap
