Director, Finance - Healthcare Commercial

 

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

 

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. 

 

Your Role:

As the Director, Finance - Healthcare Commercial, you will act as a strategic finance business partner to the US Senior Leadership Team, ensuring the integrity of financial information to support objectives and drive business performance. 

 

You will lead the Investment Controlling Team, overseeing optimal investment and resource allocation, delivering accurate and timely forecasting and scenario planning, and supports critical launch and business development activities. Additionally, you leverage technology to develop and implement streamlined, automated financial processes to enhance overall organizational effectiveness.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee all investment reporting and forecasting, ensuring optimal resource allocation across the portfolio, standardizing data and analytics to support the achievement of financial objectives
• Drive resource and headcount forecasting, tracking and reallocation for the US Commercial and Medical organization
• Identify opportunities to prioritize investment, enabling the funding of incremental investment opportunities and the reduction of management plugs
• Manage the investment controlling team, leading both direct local controlling resources and indirect offshore GES colleagues, enhancing employee engagement and reducing turnover in a complex matrixed environment.
• Provide direct strategic guidance and business partnering for critical business functions and US Senior Leadership team
• Ensure accurate and timely investment management, month end closing and forecasting
• Utilize data/AI and technology to drive end to end process efficiencies and automation
• Leverage existing and emerging reporting tolls to develop impactful reporting and insights
• Actively support launch activities, analyzing related impacts including reorganizations and synergy efforts.
• Support Business Development initiatives and integration efforts, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and facilitating smooth transitions.
• Lead the OpEx Committee to drive best practice across TA’s and functions, proposing and implementing process improvements to existing reporting, forecasting and investment analytics
• Deliver key investment & resource presentations with insightful commentary to Finance and Senior Leaders, to enable informed decision making and drive business performance.
• Own ad hoc projects and initiatives for Finance and US Senior Leadership Team.  Often the local lead on internal and global projects.
• Manage Internal / External investment related audit requests/outcomes

 

Who You Are:

Minimum Requirements:

• BS in Business, Finance or Accounting
• CPA and/or MBA or equivalent direct working experience in Pharmaceuticals
• Minimum 8 Years professional experience, preferably in an international, multi-currency, biotechnology, or pharmaceutical company; 15 years preferred
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills with an interest in identifying the root cause and resolution of complex issues and problems
• Proven track-record