[Hiring] Digital FI Innovation Senior Specialist @Bayer

Role Description

The primary responsibilities of this role, Digital FI Innovation Senior Specialist are to:

• Partner with Business & Functional leaders to uncover digital financial innovation opportunities.
• Lead development activities during the entire life cycle of product delivery, with a special focus on predictive planning & forecast automation.

Digital Financial Innovation:

• Develop and deploy cutting-edge solutions that drive company growth through advanced data models, AI techniques, and process automation that unlock business insights.
• Demonstrate strong EPM experience, preferably with Anaplan.
• Partner with stakeholders at local and global levels (Finance, Commercial, PS, IT).
• Employ a 'fit-for-purpose' approach to deploy innovative technologies that enable future sustainability and global scalability.
• Transform how teams work by promoting AI and digital technologies that streamline workflows and team activities.
• Demonstrate business savvy by developing strategies to senior management that create new ways to deliver value to the organization.
• Constantly seek to develop digital skills through self-development and proactive behavior.

Lead Planning & Reporting processes by:

• Partnering with Finance team leads to explore and deploy new product, process, & AI innovation.
• Leading and supporting digital planning activities throughout fiscal planning cycles.
• Developing planning & predictive models that drive strategic efforts to steer the business.
• Establishing a global innovation coalition within the Finance community that drives a digital mindset agenda.
• Promoting process improvements and technology opportunities by showcasing success.
• Enabling country and functional technology adoption through training and continuous support:
• Divisional Finance Business Partners
• R&D and Product Supply Controlling
• Functional Controlling

Continuous Improvements:

• Business insights by seeking out new AI & digital solutions to pioneer innovation.
• Business partnering by establishing team as a pinnacle partner in digital design and deployment.
• Technical skill development via a relentless pursuit of self-development.
• Innovative mindset by thinking outside the box to create new value via advanced solutions and techniques.
• Cutting-edge technologies by constantly seeking out new technologies in the market.

Key Value Add:

• The organization requires this role to identify potential AI & digital automation opportunities by partnering with business & functional leaders.
• This role is a key enabler of Bayer's ongoing strategic efforts to leverage technology in the areas of planning, reporting, and operational activities.

Qualifications

• MBA and/or a CPA or CMA.
• Bachelor Degree in Finance or IT related discipline required.
• Seven (7) years of relevant professional experience including working knowledge of SAP, SAP-BW, Anaplan, Azure, databricks, Microsoft Power Platform, and related BI technologies.

Requirements

• Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $105,200 to $157,800.
• Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant).
• Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.
• This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.
• This posting will be available for application until at least 5/22/2026.

Benefits

• Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs.