Director of Finance & Business Analytics

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Animal health is key to the health of the planet. Working at Virbac means taking part in a unique human adventure in which the engagement of each individual contributes to its evolution. Encouraging internal mobility between positions and countries, offering individual development plans and building a partnership based on trust between managers and employees are as many perspectives of motivation for our teams. We also offer them a work environment conducive to exploring new territories and balancing their professional and personal lives. Finally, fostering their engagement to animal health also means listening to them and helping them to acquire new skills, preparing them for the challenges of tomorrow and encouraging them to contribute to an ever more responsible approach to our business.  

The Director - Financial Strategy role will lead and drive enhancements in Virbac’s enterprise forecasting and financial analytics capabilities, delivering true decision support in the commercial finance realm in partnership with the FP&A organization. Acting as a strategic thought partner to the CFO and Commercial Executive staff  you will translate complex and detailed financial outputs into clear, decision-oriented narratives for executive leadership 

Leading by influence, you will project manage our efforts to build a more modern, bottoms-up forecasting engine and develop models that enable strategic decision making. This role also plays a critical role as we enhance our overall process rigor, defining ownership, driving governance, and producing a relative cadence with business partners. 

Responsibilities:

• Ensure existing data is converted  into actionable financial plans within the commercial realm (price realization vs. list increases, SiT trends, key account signals, rebate drivers) with executive-ready narratives and recommendations.

• Project manage and support our FP&A team as well as commercial the Rebuild the end-to-end forecasting routine (annual, quarterly, monthly) for the full P&L, which produces accurate executive-ready reporting for monthly/quarterly packs.

• Provide resource allocation guidance to budget owners beyond data delivered by FP&A (cut-off discipline for services and A&P, under/overspend insights, headcount and payroll bridges including vacancies and open reqs).

• Drive our Rebate governance rebuild and support Commercial into the review of rebate forecasts alongside revenue projections.

• Serve as product owner for analytics: define KPI catalog, calculation standards, master data needs, and single-source-of-truth governance across the IBA data warehouse stand up scalable dashboards for revenue, margin, SiT, GTN, and opex; ensure lineage and reconciliation to ERP.

• Institutionalize price/volume/mix (ASP) modeling at brand/channel/account levels, including in-market vs. ex-factory bridges and stock-in-trade (SiT) effects.

• Support FP&A and reinstate core internal controls: planned/committed/forecast/spent tracking, ownership, and cadence with business partners, to include influence on management of inventory programs and other critical components. 

• Upon request, represent finance on special projects e.g.  M&A,  business development,  financing projects etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related; MBA/CPA preferred.

• 10+ years progressive financial leadership experience, including 5+ years leading teams

• Pharmaceutical, Life Science or CPG experience strongly preferred.

• Financial and Commercial systems expert, including BI/Analytics, Tableau, IBA data warehouse; Anaplan/Hyperion (or similar); demand planning exposure (e.g. Colibri), ERP systems (M3 or SAP) and Excel. 

• Exceptional modeling skills; rigorous attention to detail and deadlines, customer-focused partner with impeccable ethics

• This role is hybrid and requires onsite work, Tuesday - Thursday

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