Business Analyst Emea/Latam Piacenza

Business Analyst Emea/Latam
Piacenza
Emilia Romagna, Piacenza

Locations: Piacenza, Italy; Elst, Netherlands**:

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ZOLL Medical is a growing, innovation-driven company on the forefront of delivering medical devices to save lives, and software solutions to improve efficiency.

With customers in more than 140 countries, we continue to expand our reach, as well as our product offerings.

Hospitals, emergency medical services (EMS), and others trust us to provide high-quality products and exceptional customer service.

ZOLL products are used every day across the globe to save the lives of people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest.

**Location: Elst or Piacenza (with Home Office)

**Reporting to: EMEAR Finance and Planning Manager

**Key Responsibilities

- To assist in developing EMEA Operation into a source of best practice in financial and administrative management.

- Provide business analysis to support optimal decision making by EMEA-LATAM Directors and management teams.

- Ownership of the Directors' report, producing and understanding all aspects of the financials.

Conducting a monthly review with senior Management highlighting trends, opportunities and threats.

Recording all progress against action points raised in the meetings.

- Conduct deal reviews.

Check pricing versus agreed contracts / pricing thresholds.

- Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and provide explanations of unexpected variances.

- Investigate and understand OPEX variances to budget by drilling down in Oracle accounts, utilising the 'day book' report, SmartView, ATLAS, and certify reports.

- Ownership of the segment budget process, producing all supporting documentation required for the process and ensuring all reporting deadlines are met.

- Take the lead in validating all Gross Margins (Price Discounts) of the business and ensuring all deals are within the Gross Margin hierarchy approval.

Provide assistance to quotes and tenders.

- Assist in the development of financial modelling, scenario planning and business case preparation to assist with strategic decisions.

- Ownership of weekly orders, shipments and backlog reconciliation demonstrating outstanding attention to detail and the ability to reconcile a large volume of data. Assist with month end closing of books.

**Knowledge Skills and Attributes

- Relevant accounting degree ideally first experience as a business analyst in a matrix organisation

- Familiar with programs such as Oracle, SAP or Hyperion

- Excellent excel skills including macro writing

- Confident creating and executing presentations

- Fluent English and one other European language

- Strong commercial judgement and acumen

- Proven ability to work automously and interact with various levels of a business