Transformation Business Partner
Unilabs
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Amsterdam • Netherlands
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About the role
- The Transformation Business Partner plays a critical role in supporting Unilabs Netherlands during periods of post-merger integration (PMI) and strategic transformation.
- The role is responsible for ensuring robust financial governance over transformation initiatives, tracking savings and value creation, and acting as a key finance business partner to the Transformation Office.
- The position combines classic controlling responsibilities with a strong forward-looking, change-oriented focus, enabling management to make fact-based decisions and ensuring that transformation benefits are transparently tracked, realized, and sustained.
- Provide financial oversight and control for PMI activities, including integration costs, synergies, and one-off restructuring items.
- Establish and maintain clear financial tracking of PMI-related benefits and risks.
- Support the preparation of PMI business cases and monitor actuals versus plan.
- Ensure alignment with Unilabs Group PMI standards, policies, and reporting requirements.
- Act as the dedicated finance partner to the Transformation Office, supporting strategic initiatives across operations, commercial, and support functions.
- Translate transformation initiatives into measurable financial targets and KPIs.
- Challenge assumptions, validate business cases, and provide scenario and sensitivity analyses.
- Support prioritization of initiatives based on financial impact and feasibility.
- Design, implement, and maintain a structured savings tracking framework covering cost savings, efficiency gains, and revenue improvements.
- Track savings from identification through validation, realization, and run-rate sustainability.
- Reconcile reported savings with financial results (P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow).
- Ensure transparency and auditability of savings reporting.
- Act as a trusted financial advisor to transformation leads, functional heads, and senior management.
- Provide actionable insights to support decision-making and performance improvement.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between Finance, Transformation Office, and operational teams.
- Communicate complex financial topics clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- Prepare high-quality reporting for local management and Group, including dashboards, executive summaries, and deep-dive analyses.
- Support monthly closing activities related to transformation and PMI items.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting standards, and Unilabs Group policies.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- >10 years of relevant experience in controlling, finance business partnering, or consulting or M&A
- Proven experience in PMI, transformation, restructuring, or large change programs.
- Strong track record in savings tracking, business case development, and value realization.
- Experience in a complex, matrix-driven, international organization is preferred.
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to challenge constructively and influence at senior levels.
- Highly structured, detail-oriented, and results-driven.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
- Proactive, independent, and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
- Experience with ERP systems and BI/reporting tools (e.g. SAP, Power BI) is an advantage.
Benefits
- A market-competitive salary, based on the Hospital Collective Labour Agreement (CAO Ziekenhuizen), including 8.33% holiday allowance and an 8.33% year-end bonus;
- Employment conditions in accordance with the Hospital Collective Labour Agreement (CAO Ziekenhuizen), including 63 PLB hours, an excellent pension scheme, travel allowance, etc.;
- Unilabs actively supports training and development, combined with a coaching program with your manager. In addition, Unilabs offers extensive growth and development opportunities, for example towards senior finance leadership or commercial executive roles, both domestically and internationally;
- The opportunity to spar, challenge, and help shape commercial growth, with intensive collaboration with the operations team and headquarters;
- An independent and strategic role within an innovative medical organization working on the healthcare of tomorrow;
- A beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Amsterdam with excellent accessibility and a pleasant working environment, as well as the possibility to work from home. A minimum of three days per week in the office is required.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial governancesavings trackingfinancial modelingbusiness case developmentvalue realizationcost savingsefficiency gainsrevenue improvementsP&L reconciliationauditability
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationconstructive challengeinfluencedetail-orientedresults-drivenproactiveindependentmulti-priority managementcross-functional collaboration
Certifications
Master’s degree in FinanceMaster’s degree in AccountingMaster’s degree in Economics