Finance Manager, 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.
This role will support the capital planning process.  This includes the evaluation of financial implications of capital projects as well as acting as a liaison between project managers, local and corporate business partners, and approval committees.  This role also ensures that the capital planning and funding release processes are performed in compliance with all guidelines and educates project leaders on the CapEx process.  

Duties & Responsibilities

Leadership & Business Partnering:

• Serves as primary Finance business partner for assigned US BI functions.
• Supports developing strategies/plans to achieve functional/business objectives, risks/opportunities, and monitors progress against strategies/plans.
• Supports the Company's vision and strategy and to drive continuous improvement.

Planning/Budgeting, Reporting and Forecasting

• Supports US and global functional financial reporting requirements, in close collaboration with overall Finance & business team.
• As required, provides scenario analysis in support of the development of alternatives, including risk identification and related mitigation proposals.

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 assigned US function.
• Responsible for all intercompany accounting and transaction management related to assigned US function.
• Constructively challenges Business Partners, relative to marketplace and business trends, 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. 
• Participates in the verification & approval of (standard price) calculations results (also with governmental bodies where applicable).
• Participates in alignment and coordination with GBS where applicable.

Partnership, Alliance & Affiliates Controlling, International Projects

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

Operations / Manufacturing:

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

Audit / Compliance:

• Supports Internal & External audits.
• Helps develop and support execution of CoSeA.
• Supports periodic compliance reviews (ensure quality & risk management compliance for commercial/operations processes).

Requirements

• Bachelors, Masters, or CPA required in Finance, Accounting, or Engineering.
• Four to five (4-5) years’ work experience with increasing responsibility in Finance, Accounting and Operations. Previous experience in Pharma and as a Controller with P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility desired.
• Strong cross functional collaboration skills.
• Understanding of key business strategies.
• Ability to interact with the Business Partners so that financial/business advice, counsel, and recommendations can be made for the purpose of meeting financial/business objectives.
• Collaboration with functional management teams at the local and global levels required.
• Strong project management skills required to lead or participate in special projects/assignments as requested by Finance or business leadership.

Core Skills:

• Ability to visualize, articulate, and solve complex issues and make decisions that are sensible and based on available information.
• Ability to use a variety of techniques to influence Business Partners at all levels of global organization (including logic, storytelling, common vision, etc.)
• Ability to plan and manage multiple priorities under high pressure situations with tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage Business Partner relations and expectations.

Professional Skills:

• Ability to understand business risk and translate those risks to financial data and suggest mitigation strategies.
• 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.