Finance Business Partner Ireland

About Convatec

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch :
Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care, Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Infusion Care. With more than 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in around 90 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs.

Convatec’s revenues in 2024 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE : CTEC). To learn more please visit

Every day, our products improve the lives of millions of people around the world. We’re hugely proud of this, which is why we’re transforming our business to reach millions more. Join us as a Finance Business Partner, UK & Ireland and you’ll drive progress that really means something.

The Finance Business Partner, UK & Ireland is a key role within the Europe Finance team. Acting as co-pilot to the business leader(s), your key accountability is to partner with your Commercial Business Director, Advanced Wound Care to drive commercial performance outcomes against plans, forecasts, and strategic objectives. This is an individual contributor role and reports to the Senior Finance Director Advanced Wound Care, Europe.

You will be a trusted and relied upon partner, respected for your commercial acumen and your ability to provide succinct but powerful storytelling, with actionable insight.

You will be the face of Finance for your business stakeholders, connecting them, where appropriate, with your finance colleagues within CBS (Convatec Business Services) or the wider Finance team to solve the problems that don’t fall within the accountabilities of the FBP, statutory accounting, tax and controlling activities. You will be an advocate for the Finance Service Delivery Model, helping your stakeholders understand the new ways of working in Finance.

You will be a leader within the Finance organization, pro-actively sharing your business knowledge and commercial acumen with the FP&A team members to build enduring capability.

• Collaborate with the Commercial Director to deliver sustainable and profitable growth for the business unit, jointly driving P&L performance, Sales, EBIT, revenue growth, cash flow optimization, and overall commercial outcomes against plans, forecasts, and strategic objectives.
• Partner with the Commercial Director Advanced Wound Care and BU leadership to develop the long-term Strategic Plan, Annual Operating Plan (AOP), budgets, and forecasts; provide strategic direction on goals, risks, opportunities, and tactical initiatives while ensuring robustness of plans to Senior Finance Director Advanced Wound Care Europe.
• Translate strategy into short-, medium-, and long-term financial and non-financial targets and KPIs; establish clear frameworks for patient modelling, lead indicators, competitive benchmarking, and a balanced scorecard approach to monitor performance, identify gaps, and drive timely interventions.
• As the face of Finance to the BU, connect business stakeholders with the appropriate people in CBS (Convatec Business Services) or wider Finance. The CBS RTR, PTP and OTC teams take care of all accounting operations. Control issues are managed by the BU Controller. The FBP is not responsible or accountable for solving accounting (or tax / treasury) issues, but does act as a conduit between the business, external authorities and wider finance team.
• The CBS FP&A team will prepare annual operating plans (AOP) and forecasts. The FBP will provide direction on strategic goals, opportunities and risks as well as input on any other strategic or tactical initiatives that the FP&A team are not aware of. The FBP will also provide assurance of the robustness of the AOP / forecast to the VP Finance.
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