Director, Business Finance – CrossLab Consumables & Services Divisions

Job Description

Serves as the primary Business Finance partner for the CrossLab Consumables and Services Divisions providing financial leadership and decision support to Division VP/GMs and their staff within the Divisions. Partners closely with commercial, product, R&D and functional leaders to drive business performance, investment decisions and profitable growth, while leveraging support from the FP&A Center of Excellence (COE) for standardized planning, reporting and analytics.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with Division business leaders to provide financial guidance, challenge assumptions and support operational decision-making across geographically dispersed businesses.
• Lead financial planning, forecasting, and performance management for assigned businesses, translating business drivers into actionable financial insights and recommendations.
• Support commercial, marketing, and service leaders to optimize recurring revenue through pricing, mix, customer retention, installed base penetration, attach rates, service contract performance and commercial investments.
• Monitor business performance, identifying risks, opportunities and actions to improve growth, profitability and resource allocation.
• Oversee business cases and financial analyses to support investments, product development, commercial initiatives and portfolio decisions.
• Collaborate with the FP&A COE to ensure high-quality planning, reporting and analytical outputs, enabling greater focus on forward-looking business partnering.
• Leverage data, automation and AI-enabled tools to improve forecasting accuracy, accelerate insights and enhance decision support.

Critical Competencies

• Strong business and commercial acumen.
• Strategic thinking and structured problem solving.
• Influencing and business partnership across global, matrixed organizations.
• Financial modeling and analytical rigor.
• Digital and AI fluency to enhance insights and productivity.
• Executive communication and stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or related field; MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience supporting consumables, services, life sciences, diagnostics, manufacturing, or other recurring revenue businesses within a complex global organization.
• Strong understanding of recurring revenue business models including pricing, service contract economics, installed base management, customer retention, product lifecycle management and margin optimization.
• Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders to shape strategy, evaluate investments, optimize resource allocation and deliver profitable growth.
• Experience leading financial planning, forecasting, business performance management and executive decision support in a matrixed global environment.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage digital technologies, automation, AI and advanced analytics to improve finance effectiveness and business insight.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to synthesize complex business issues into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

Additional Details

Travel Required:

10% of the Time

Shift:

Day

Duration:

No End Date

Job Function:

Finance

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