West Pharma Manager FP & 

United States, Pennsylvania, West Whiteland Township 

501567336

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Key role in preparing slides and analysis for Board deliverables and internal management meetings
• Critical role in delivering analytics & data insights to our external reporting, tax and executive team in preparation for external filings, earnings release, legal entity forecasting and our internal management meetings. Scope encompasses sales, segment reporting, MD&A support, PwC requests and legal entity projections.
• Administrator of our BPC system which includes creating versions for forecasts and budgets, locking and unlocking periods, training users, maintaining our user guide, managing user issues/requests, loading data into HFM for consolidation and loading lower-level detail back into S4 for monthly detail reporting. This role is also instrumental in the design requirements for our updates/changes as well as new builds of data models working closely with D&T on a regular basis.
• Critical role in the forecast consolidation process gathering and coordinating data with Commercial, Operations, Corporate, Treasury and Tax to process inputs and get a consolidated forecast. Extensive knowledge of our systems is critical for this responsibility area.
• Develops & builds HFM SmartView and BPC reports as needed to drive insights & analytics for management and our FP&A partners in Commercial, Operations and Corporate functions.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of data in our financial systems
• Ad hoc analysis as needed

Basic Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's in Accounting or Finance
• Experience: 5-8 years of experience in Accounting and/or Financial Planning & Analysis
• Knowledge of Hyperion, SAP HANA, SAP BPC and SAP BW/BI is required.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• MBA Preferred
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization and promote a collaborative environment.
• Excellent oral and written skills; interpersonal skills, fact finder skills, active listening, critical thinking, time management, problem sensitivity and project management skills.
• Ability to leverage technology to improve, analyze and report results.
• Ability to present findings and industry insights to senior leaders across the company.
• Strong conceptual thinking aptitude and ability to persuade and influence others.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a complex, dynamic, and challenging environment with strong inherent project execution skills, including prioritizing tasks, balancing workload between multiple projects, anticipating next steps, adapting to changing situations and project scope.
• Excellent relationship skills and client-focused mindset.

Travel Requirements:

• Travel is not required.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

• Use written and oral communication skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills must be coupled with public speaking, quick decision making.
• Organizational skills will enable planning, prioritization & achievement of goals especially of importance for the successful execution of related activities.
• Position operates in a sedentary professional office environment with occasional standing or climbing up and down stairs.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.
• Read and interpret data, information, documents, analyze and solve problems.
• Must maintain the ability to work well with others in a variety of situations.
• Must be able to multi-task, work under time constraints, problem-solve, and prioritize.
• Ability to make independent and sound judgments.
• Must be able to step back and think big picture, when needed, to anticipate problems.
• Must maintain the ability to work well with others in a variety of situations.
• Sedentary - exerting up to 10lbs/4kgs of force occasionally, and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to life, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met