Merck Looking for Finance Planning & Analysis Director Site Finance Lead at Wilson, NC Full Time

Job Description

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.

We are seeking a Growth and Improvement minded Finance Planning & Analysis Director | Site Finance Lead that can help drive our Strategic Operating Priorities.

• Invent | Pursue the Most Promising Internal and External Science to Address Significant Unmet Medical Needs

• Execute | Prioritize Resources Behind Our Key Growth Drivers (Oncology, Vaccines, Select Specialty Areas, Animal Health) While Optimizing Our Base Business)

• Adapt | Develop Our People, Culture and Business Model to Evolve with a Dynamic Landscape

• Diverse Talent | We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment with supporting leadership behaviors because having a high-performing, engaged workforce is critical to our ability to deliver innovative solutions to patients and customers around the world

• Values and Standards | Our Steadfast Commitment to Our Values and Standards will Continue to Guide Us as We Take on New Challenges and Will Always be Fundamental to Our Success – They are a Competitive Advantage for Us

Summary, Focus and Purpose

The Wilson site is responsible for packaging, storing, and shipping a variety of products for supply to the US and International markets. As the Site Finance Lead, the incumbent will work with the Site Leadership Team to develop and execute the site’s operational and financial strategy, ensuring planned investments are aligned with Company objectives and deliver intended value.

You will work with people at all levels of the organization to develop, report, monitor and manage key financial and non-financial performance indicators, and ensure that financial controls are maintained in accordance with our company’s policies and procedures and will have people management responsibilities and is accountable for establishing priorities and providing oversight of career development plans for their direct report. This position will also be responsible for managing the site relationships with internal stakeholders (Operation Unit leadership, various extended finance teams) and external stakeholders (auditors, partnership). The Finance Director develops and sustains a high-performance organization that is highly flexible and motivated to champion change and innovation and drive continuous improvement.

Key Functions

• Work Independently and as a Team member with Integrity | Precision | Accomplishment | Motivational Ambition | Respect | Inclusion

• Reports to the Manufacturing Division Packaging Platform Finance Lead and provides clear direction to Platform Leadership and the Manufacturing Division Finance COE on drivers of Wilson financial planning/strategy and actual performance against such plans

• Works with the Site Leadership Team to understand the short and long-term production volume profile at the site to inform strategies on capital investment/asset optimization, workforce planning, and productivity initiatives

• Partners with site Business Unit leaders to develop and manage plans for departmental staffing and spending including, but not limited to: contractor/temp support, maintenance and utilities, site services, warehousing/material handling/freight, and Quality lab administration and supplies

• Works with Operations and COSI to develop product cost standards and analyze variances

• Ensures site adherence to Inventory of Questionable Value (IQV) policy, and works with Operations to conduct root-cause analysis on potential discards and develop mitigation strategies

• Partners with project leads to assess capital project business cases and develop/manage spending plans | Develops site Depreciation and Property Tax forecasts based on planned investments and in-line asset book value

• As part of the site’s Hoshin strategy, models 5-year financial outlook including strategic investment impact, headcount planning, productivity initiatives, and long-range product cost forecasting

• Manages administration of financial terms within the site’s Master Supply Agreement with partnerships and leads monthly review of performance with the Team

• Ensures adherence to Company financial controls across all site operations and serves as the lead in hosting periodic audits from MCAAS and Wilson County

• Manages a Senior Specialist, ensuring roles and responsibilities across the team enable development opportunities while ensuring high-quality support to business partners

Education

• Bachelor degree

Required

• Ten years relevant finance experience

• Problem Solving | Analyze complex business situations, focus on critical variables and assumptions and translate those into meaningful financial analyses and presentations that can improve business outcomes

• Expertise | Solid understanding of financial modeling, product costing, accounting principles and controls, and a desire to learn more about our manufacturing environments

• Leadership | Collaborate with and influence finance and non-finance senior leaders in the organization to drive site operational and financial strategy

Preferred

• MBA or CPA

• Systems skills: SAP, BPC/LPT, FSA, Excel, PowerPoint

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us-and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

On-Site

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

Not applicable

Number of Openings:

1

Requisition ID: R218410