Job Description

You will be responsible for providing financial planning, analysis and reporting for Sales and Pricing. You will interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to expand gross margins, designing processes and KPIs to track the pricing actions and ad hoc initiatives globally.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the business finance leaders, central FP&A team to assess pricing opportunities, sales performance including risks and opportunities
• Partner with FP&A income statement & reporting leader drive visibility and accurate actuals/estimates with strong performance tracking
• Own and set up standard work and templates across functions and regions SG&A processes. Look for opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Set up and run trainings across the PDX finance teams for new P&L requirements
• Bring transparency of pricing assumptions, trends and sales forecast as part of Budget and Rolling forecast
• 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.
• Good communication and influential skills to challenge and drive change and opportunities
• Lean mindset and continuous improvement.
• Experience in digital solutions and platforms, process simplification, integration and automation.
• 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.
• 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.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 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.
• 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.
• A good level of English and a valid work permit