MSD Financial Planning & Analysis Manager 

Hungary 

393798093

Job Description

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as Business Partner and coordinates local financial performance reviews with management / leadership team to provide decision support and financial insights to Business Leaders, proactively facilitating resource allocation, identify risks and opportunities and provide suggestions on appropriate course of actions on a timely manner
• Lead the market effort of developing monthly and quarterly management reporting, Budgets/Forecasts, Long Range Operating Plans and review materials at appropriate level to facilitate performance management and decision making for the business.
• Ensure effective and timely communication with BSC, Regional / HQ COE's regarding key deliverables and support.
• Supports achievement of finance and business objectives through high quality finance support.
• Works closely with Managing director, Business Units, Business Support, and Market Access teams to:
  • Prepare mid-month, month-end, and quarter estimates and actual commentaries.
  • Coordinate the development and submission of financial forecasts, budget, 5-year plan.
  • Track performance against forecasts to understand and clearly articulate the drivers
  • Support continuous Gross to Net optimization and provide recommendations to country LT.
  • Prepare and present business review slides to local and regional senior leaders.
• Coordinates escalation/identification of issues and advise Finance leadership of potential business and/or operational risks.
• Identifies, designs, and installs process improvements for local financial reporting, forecasting and management related activities.
• Supports monthly close process inclusive of accrual evaluations, postings and balance sheet reviews and approves manual journal entries. Reviews and approves credit note requests.
• Support to and Partnership with local Accounting Lead to enforce financial controls, regulations and supports Audit requirements.
• Other business support: contributes to assessments of country business development projects, oversees credit limit reviews and receivable risks; supports other back-office activities related to facilities, fleet, telecommunications, etc.
• Provides financial and compliance consultation in reviews of vendors, customers and distributors.
• Provides financial literacy education for non-finance stakeholders, fostering a broader understanding of financial concepts and terminology, facilitating collaboration with stakeholders.
• Co-represents the company as an executive, registered in the Commercial registry.

Specific Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor/Master education in Business Economic, Finance, or Accounting
• Experience: 7-10 years of demonstrated experience in a finance or accounting role with business support, FP&A experience is preferred
• Systems: Solid knowledge of financial reporting and planning systems and processes, good knowledge of systems (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, SAP, Analytics, BPC, PowerBI)
• Language Requirements: English fluent, Hungarian is an asset

Strategy & Business partnering skills:

• Business Partnering:
• Business Insights:Identifies and understands competitive trends, employs curiosity, financial acumen and business knowledge to proactively identify opportunities to shape and improve business outcomes and solutions.
• Financial planning:Ability to employ financial planning principles to forecast and/or facilitates the local businesses’ forecast to ensure appropriate allocation of resources. Ability to recognize and communicate potential business / financial risks and/or opportunities to adequately characterize the quality of financial forecasts. Delivers findings and reports in a timely, clear, meaningful, and action-oriented way.
• Data storytelling:Communicates and delivers the financial data effectively and creatively so it is clearly understood and resonates with various stakeholders. Adjusts to audience as necessary.

Enterprise Leadership Skills – Individual leader

Our Company has a standard set of Enterprise Leadership Skills, that is available and required to all employees. Out of these the following are critical for success in the role.

As an Individual Leader Leads their own specific tasks and responsibilities within a team, prioritizing time and effort towards important deliverables and producing high-quality work, while also contribute to the overall goals of the team by excelling at their individual role and taking initiative to improve their own skills.

• using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to influence, partner and collaborate with other colleagues within and outside their team, to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcome.
• Business savviness:Understanding the business; building and applying one’s knowledge of company operations, financial performance, and the industry to improve individual, work group and/or organization results.
• Decision making:Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
• Diversity & Inclusion:Valuing differences; working effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, interpersonal styles, perspectives, motivations, or backgrounds; seeking out and including unique abilities, insights and ideas from diverse mix of individuals.
• Execution excellence:Taking prompt action to accomplish work goals, per compliance standards; taking action to achieve results beyond what is required; being proactive.

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Job Posting End Date:08/09/2024

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