What Finance Operations contributes to Cardinal HealthFinance oversees the accounting, tax, financial plans and policies of the organization, establishes and maintains fiscal controls, prepares and interprets financial reports, oversees financial systems and safeguards the organization’s assets.Finance Operations is responsible for the oversight and overall performance of core financial processes. This includes pricing administration, rebates, cash application, chargebacks, billing, accounts payable and employee travel & expense.

• Responsible for all financial and process leadership of Contract Management Financial Shared Services (Customer Contract Maintenance and Pricing Execution, Customer Rebates and GPO Admin Fees, and Supplier Chargebacks)

• Lead a global team comprised of ~200 onshore and ~500 offshore resources

• Accountable for driving performance and adherence to established KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) and SLA’s (Service Level Agreements); drive continuous improvement of the existing metric framework

• Develop strong cross functional partnerships, within and outside of the finance function, to drive collaboration and enhance the customer and supplier experience, serving as an escalation point for elevated customer and supplier issues

• Continuously assess and enhance financial, process and quality assurance (QA) controls

• Relentlessly drive root cause analysis, in partnership with upstream and downstream teams, to identify recurring themes and issues and prevent them from repeating

• Champion end to end standardization of internal processes to drive improved business outcomes

• Collaborate with global process owners, IT, operational excellence, and analytics to provide and execute on transformation opportunities

• 15+ years of experience in finance or accounting roles preferred

• 10+ years of experience leading people

• Basic accounting knowledge strongly preferred

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance preferred