.Company Overview:If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!**BASIC PURPOSE**:The position works closely with the plant manager and the leadership team in driving key initiatives and helping the Company to achieve its goals and maximize returns on investment. The Business Partner will use data as a strategic asset to provide decision support, accurate planning and forecasting, and operational productivity and efficiency analysis. Further, this position will ensure accuracy and completeness in income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement planning and forecasting as well as timely variance analysis.**PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES**:- Own and drive financial performance (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, ROIC)- Work closely with the Plant Manager in monthly financial reviews to ensure revenues and margins are appropriately estimated for use in financial statement forecasting.- Analyze financial results and identify and communicate deviations to plan and forecast. Make recommendations for potential solution and improvements. Promote the active use of financial data to drive business success, and continuously identify and make visible all potential risks and opportunities.- Actively support and challenge/drive management team to grow enterprise value (growth > market, > margins, > ROIC, > FCF). Work alongside business partners to achieve outcomes.- Provide trusted finance decision support, including regular and ad hoc analysis to key stakeholders. Deliver insight into trends, risks and opportunities.- Actively collaborate with accounting, shared service, treasury and tax peers to ensure finance & accounting processes are executed and the function achieves its objectives. Seek out ambiguity and clarify. Identify areas lacking role clarity and provide solutions, escalate where required- Oversee the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes for the business, ensuring that gaps are identified and communicated early and that appropriate actions are taken to meet the business financial commitments.- Identify / highlight performance trends, high & low performing products. Recommend and target actions and projects in collaboration with management team to improve product volumes and profitability- Lead monthly project reviews (in partnership with management team where projects exist)