Finance Manager
Full Time
Job Description
- Liaise with functional and regional finance managers accurately update weekly/monthly and quarterly closing estimates.
- Partner with FP&A income statement & reporting leader drive visibility and accurate actuals/estimates
- Look for opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Set up and run trainings across the PDX finance teams for new P&L requirements
- Assist with timely and accurate management reporting (regional and segment P&L’s) and communicate results to managers.
- Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise within their discipline. Requires pharmaceutical awareness, and is expected to influence the development of strategy within own area, including control of resources and influences policy formulation.
- Communicates difficult concepts and may influence others' options on particular topics. May guide others to consider a different point of view.
- Impacts the team’s ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives. Work is subject to functional policy objectives. Regularly advises management in the function and/or in the business. Has a supportive role in decision making about important subjects. High levels of evaluative judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.
- Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems that impact the function. Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
- Track progress against plan at a granular level.
- Maintain account & cost center mapping tables, implementing any changes in and timely and accurate manner
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or other business-related field.
- Significant progressive accounting or finance experience.
- Experience in a Pharmaceutical environment.
- Experience working in a global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate complex business issues in a clear/concise manner.
- Strong analytical skills: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change.
- Confidence/Assertiveness: strong influencing skills and ability to use data to tell a story.
- Clear thinking/problem solving: successfully led projects/process improvements within operations/finance functions; able to quickly grasp new ideas.
- Adaptable/Flexible: being open to change in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations.
- Integrity: accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions and when dealing with others.
- Experience working in a matrixed environment.
- Strong PC skills: experience with financial systems/applications (i.e.: Oracle, Business Objects, Hyperion, etc.), strong excel and access skills in data compilation and aggregation (i.e.: pivot tables, Vlookup and macros).
- Graduate of GE's Financial Management Program (FMP); or Corporate Audit Staff (CAS)/Operational Finance leadership program (OFLP); Experienced Financial Leadership Program (EFLP) or graduate of other financial leadership programs.
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