Finance Controller / Business Partner

Job Purpose:

To act as Finance Business Partner, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to Leadership Team; to support core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information, ensuring pro-active cross-functional liaison with Regional Financial Planning & Analysis Team, local business and commercial teams.

Major accountabilities:

To drive improvement of financial performance via:

• Planning: To manage annual budgeting, recurrent Strategic Planning processes as well as other planning cycles / forecasting requests
• Reporting: period end closing activities in SAP (all P&L areas), monthly package upload and verification in SAP / BPC / BW, intense interaction with regional FP&A and local Leadership team
• Analysis: to provide accurate and relevant business analysis on full set of financial data; making recommendations relevant to the matter; resource allocations and Brand P&Ls monitoring, risk and opportunities watch out and so on
• Systems and controls: budget control in respective areas, active involvement in systems roll-outs / project activities locally and on regional level

Responsibilities

• Providing management with accurate, relevant business analysis to support monthly operational reviews and ad-hoc requests on revenues, expenses, customers, product and sales channels, Management Cash Flow, Profit and Loss (P&L) by area and shared service cost allocations.
• Challenging budgets and projects within given assumptions and to maintain valid financial plans.
• Performing analysis to evaluate risks or opportunities; making recommendations to mitigate these risks.
• Ensuing on-going business performance is appropriately monitored and measured, and drives early warning for re-direction of resources with Business Partners.
• To manage annual budgeting, recurrent Strategic Planning processes as well as other planning cycles
• Supporting monthly closing procedure and management reporting packages.
• Analyzing investments and sales to provide resource allocation recommendations.
• Continually improves and streamlines management reporting processes and systems to meet the changing demands of the business.
• Adopting a partner and challenger role when evaluating projects/budgets and Product Business Plans. Support managers in the formulation of their business and financial plans. To fully understand key business issues and cost drivers, including headcount and proposed capital/revenue expenditure feeding those plans.

Background:

• Education: University degree in economics, business or related field
• Languages: English, fluent written and spoken

Experience/Professional Requirement:

• >2 years experience within international financial environment or comparable position ( only pharmaceutical companies)
• Experience in financial planning / and-or controlling positions is a must
• Experience designing and operating financial reporting and forecasting systems
• Excellent analytical ability
• Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to clearly present financial data in reports distributed internally
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Advanced PC literacy, experience with SAP / BW / BPC, familiarity with 1C might help

We offer successful candidates:

• Stable salary, payment of bonuses based on the results of work
• Corporate training programs and the opportunity to develop professional and personal competencies in various formats
• Institute of mentors - experienced employees who will help newcomers adapt faster
• Flexible schedule, ability to manage your work&life balance
• Accident Life Insurance 24/7
• COVID-19 Employee Care and Prevention Program
• Benefit Constructor – the possibility of using flexible benefits or VMI in the preferred proportion
• A laptop, a corporate mobile communication tariff (according to the company's policies)
• Annual salary review