AddressFinancial Analyst
Looking for a different challenge as a Financial Analyst whereby you can still utilise your skills?
Permanent Full-time position with competitive renumeration and benefits
Hybrid, work from home and office environment, with a dedicated and welcoming team
Join a growing, yet already successful market
Upskill and growth in an area your passionate about, whilst being fully supported and encouraged.
Join a Trusted Global Leading Animal Health organisation
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.
The Opportunity
The primary purpose of the role is to support various financial planning, analysis, and management reporting activities and to provide wide range of finance business partner support to the various Business Units. Key success criteria of the role are to form partnership with business stakeholders and foster collaboration with rest of FP&A team to contribute value-add support in decision making and help achieve financial goals.
This role supports Australia, part of the Australia and New Zealand cluster in the Asia Pacific & South Africa (APSA) Region for company Animal Health.
What You Will Do
Responsibilities include, however not limited to:
Demonstrate customer centricity, proactively seek to understand customer requirements and expectations to continuously enhance the support provided to the Business Units
Liaise with local finance and BSC teams and manage consolidation, analysis, and reporting of monthly/quarterly/annual sales, margins, and expenses
Analyse, seek feedback and prepare commentary on major variances to forecasts, budget & prior year actual results and assist in the understanding of key risks and opportunities
Support business review and analyse business performance against key metrics and assist in the understanding of key risks and opportunities
Support implementation of improvement initiatives around forecasting and reporting tools & systems, integration of systems, gross-to-net
Collaborate and support Finance Business Partner with similar tasks during peak season
Establish New Ways of Working through continuous review & improvement of processes, such as standardisation, simplification, and automation of time-intensive manual steps
Help to enforce financial controls within the organization, including assurance of financial integrity and accuracy around the monthly close process
Become proficient in using the financial applications and systems (e.g. Local Planning Tool, IFP, BPC, SAP, GP, Other Database tools
Any other tasks, projects or activities as may be required by Finance Business Partner Australia
What You Must have
Degree in Accounting/Finance; CPA is desirable
Demonstrated solid (5+ years) working experience in a similar Financial Planning Analyst role
Have experience &/or understanding on SAP; experience with Power BI is desirable
Possess outstanding analytical skills
Ability to provide technical expertise to support cross functional teams
Ability to plan, organise and prioritise
Ability to think beyond numbers and combine data with strategy and financial insight
Ability to influence stakeholders to meet deadlines & financial requirements within defined guidelines.
Ability to build strong relationships with commercial teams coupled with excellent communication skills
Experience within the pharmaceutical or Animal Health industry preferred but not essential; we welcome applications with backgrounds with Business to Consumer (B2C) such as FMCG
Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
What You Can Expect
Work autonomously whilst being supported, encouraged and being part of a trusted Global Leading Animal Health organisation
Exposure to upskill and develop in your role, whilst opening doors to other opportunities and skillsets
Fantastic opportunity to contribute to the continuing growth & successes of our Animal Health business
Collaborate with fellow finance colleagues in ANZ Cluster, as well as cross functional colleagues and leaders
Attractive Total Rewards Package offered that covers compensation, health, work life and career benefits
Joining a collaborative team of likeminded individuals
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
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