Merck Group

 RECRUTE

Commercial Finance Business

Partner North West Africa

 

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Description du poste

A career at Merck is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 50,000 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in healthcare, life science and performance materials. For 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.

Your role:

The Finance Partner is a key business partner, providing robust and insightful decision support to Business and Finance Management, to enable delivering on financial objectives both operational and strategic.The candidate will pro-actively work with Management to identify business risks and opportunities, find pragmatic approaches to challenges, implement gap closing actions and best practices across local organizations. Ensure financial transparency and disclosure of risks.

North West Africa cluster covers 8 countries and French Speaking Region, focus countries are Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. The Commercial Finance Partner reports to the Head of Commercial Finance MEA, and works in a matrix environment with commercial teams.

The main responsibilities will be to develop and maintain a Business Performance tracking framework including Key KPI’s and core financial reports such as P&L, Stock in Trade, NWC (special focus on AR). Design, maintain and drive monthly Business Reviews, ensuring complete, accurate and timely submission from Local to RegionalYou will drive P&L management with focus on accurate Sales Forecasting, cost control and resource allocation. Also run the Planning and Forecasting processes in coordination with key stakeholders to deliver consistent, ambitious and reliable plans, to which building a strong working relationship with Supply Chain is critical.

You will challenge and investigate financial results with the objective of identifying performance gaps, checking progress towards budget achievement and recommending gap closing action. He / She will engage with Business Stakeholders, with the objective to build insight into key business drivers and tactics, to identify opportunities and support solid business case preparation.

Your role will also involve partnering in business development activities, owning the valuation models to provide tested business assumptions for evaluating the opportunity, challenge financial evaluations to ensure most profitable outcome. Prepare monthly management reports together with qualitative performance insights. Pro-actively review and assess Business Performance Reporting landscape, driving changes and enhancement recommendations in collaboration with Regional Controller.The Finance Partner will support business to meet operative plan and will have a good understanding of the pharma market specificities and evaluation processes, awareness of related legislation. You will also have the ability to recognize problems, develop solutions and implement them within a complex environment.You will be willing to take ownership for your work and challenge the status quo. Meet deadlines for all project deliverables with speed and accuracy, deliver high quality and timely delivery of financial actual, budget and accuracy of forecastsThis role also to have the ability to build and maintain effective interpersonal relationships, communicate effectively and be a team player. Being flexible, have a can-do attitude and have the ability to work under pressure are key to this role.

Who you are:

•Hold a university degree in Economics / Finance with 7 plus years’ experience in financial reporting and business controlling

•Experience in Pharma/Biotech /Medtech environment preferred•Outstanding analytical skills and strong execution track records•Advanced financial modeling skills (Excel)•Knowledge with regards to ERP/Consolidation tools (SAP, Oracle, Scala, TM1 or similar).•Fluent French and English

What we offer:

At Merck, there are always opportunities to break new ground. We empower you to fulfil your ambitions, and our diverse businesses offer various career moves to seek new horizons. We trust you with responsibility early on and support you to draw your own career map that is responsive to your aspirations and priorities in life. Join us and bring your curiosity to life!

Curious? Apply and find more information at come2merck.com