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AD, Financial Controlling

Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Associate Director, Financial Controlling will lead and direct the Financial Controlling function responsible for supporting the US portion of BI's Global Functions Controlling and Allocations process.

In addition to the leadership responsibilities with respective functional business partners the position may include strategic and operational tasks as follows:

• Acting as key Finance Business Partner to local and global management of respective US elements of BI Global Functions.
• Ensuring effective local and global partnership model by providing management with decision relevant financial and strategic guidance and financial transparency; challenging business partners/functional units appropriately in a market focused, solution oriented, and communicative approach.
• Partnering with functional leadership and Finance/Controlling leadership in development and implementation of local/global functional strategies.
• Responsibility for the accurate and timely development of functional project plans, budgets, and forecasts consistent with global/local strategies.
• Managing preparation of timely and accurate controlling reports.
• Ensuring compliance with BI and external standards and supports audit activities.
• Overseeing coordination of EF allocations and consolidated reporting for all US entities.

Duties & Responsibilities

Leadership and Business Partnering:

• Serves as primary controlling business partner for US portion of BI Global Functions.
• Provides financial leadership for US element of BI Global Functions; developing strategies/plans to achieve functional/business objectives; identifying risks/opportunities, and monitoring progress against strategies/plans.
• Provides leadership to support the Company's vision and strategy and to drive continuous improvement.

Planning/Budgeting, Reporting and Forecasting:

• Provides strategic direction for US portion of BI Global Functions financial reporting matters, in close collaboration with overall Finance & Controlling Team.
• Supports scenario simulations and development of alternatives including risk identification and related mitigation proposals.
• Leads, directs, coordinates, and enhances all financial reporting matters for responsible areas.
• Drives process improvements and spirit of continuous innovation by challenging status quo.

Management Accounting (incl. Closing), Cost Analysis and Product Costing

• Provides comprehensive, timely analysis, with business specific interpretation (written commentary) to assist in smart business decision process.
• Completes P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility for the area of responsibility.
• Responsible for all intercompany accounting and transaction management related to business units.
• Constructively challenge Business Partners, relative to marketplace, production volume & capacity assumptions and business trends, for optimum decision making to achieve financial objectives/targets.
• Provides timely, transparent, right-first-time, management reporting and analysis related to financial performance, headcount, CAPEX, etc.
• Ensures verification & approval of (standard price) calculations results (also with governmental bodies where applicable).
• Ensures alignment and coordination with GBS where applicable.

Partnership, Alliance & Affiliates Controlling, International Projects:

• Leads/participates in (international)projects as needed and ensure local implementation and integration.
• Key Finance stakeholder for US piece of BI Global Functions projects; establishing/measuring KPIs, leading/managing planning processes, and supporting global agreements.
• Ensures cross-functional and global alignment and adherence to goals.

Operations / Manufacturing:

• Leads financial oversight and support development of contract manufacturing agreements.
• Supports local negotiations with purchasing & local vendors.
• Ensures alignment of manufacturing schedule with forecast (optimize utilization).
• Ensures support and execution of key operations processes like inventory count / cycle counts, contract manufacturing agreements.

Audit / Compliance:

• Supports BU Business Partner / OPU Central Controlling in Internal & External audits.
• Ensures and supports execution of CoSeA.
• Leads and supports periodic compliance reviews (ensure quality & risk management compliance for commercial/operations processes).

Requirements

• Bachelors, MBA or CPA in Finance, Accounting or Engineering.
• Six-plus (6+) years' work experience with increasing responsibility in Finance, Accounting and Operations. Experience in Pharmaceutical or Scientific Financial area with responsibilities in Pharma and knowledge of Boehringer Ingelheim processes a plus.

Differentiating skills and competencies:

• Expertise in data and analytics capabilities, including experience with data transformation, modeling, visualization, dashboarding and translating complex datasets into actionable business insights.
• Demonstrated proficiency with modern data and/or planning and reporting technologies to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and decision support.
• Strong intellectual curiosity and continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to challenge and improve existing processes, identify automation opportunities, and leverage business intelligence and analytics best practices to bridge finance, business operations, and technology teams.

Core Skills:

• Good organizational, communication and planning skills with effective time management.
• Ability to work under pressure, make good decisions and to multi-task and meet deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to exercise critical thinking skills, proactively identify issues and address with solutions-oriented approach.
• Ability to manage business partner relations and expectations.
• Ability to focus on key issues and provide strategic alternatives/options.
• Good interpersonal skills.

Leadership Skills:

• Ability to handle conflict resolution and negotiate difficult issues.

Professional Skills:

• Ability to understand business risk and translate those risks to financial data and suggest mitigation strategies.
• Ability to understand the value chain quickly and incorporate that acumen into value-added recommendations.
• Ability to traverse the intersection of business, medicine, science, and technology.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

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