Company
Viatris is a global healthcare company that bridges generics and brands, supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.
Job Purpose
Ensure the smooth and effective operation of the financial control function. Ensure compliance with legal, internal and external audit rules. Manage FP&A as a business partner to support business decisions.
Carry out all activities in accordance with VIATRIS policies / guidelines / SOPs and local regulations and laws. Providing timely information to the related manager and / or management by assessing the risks in the area of responsibility in advance.
Key Responsibilities
•Lead US GAAP reporting and financial close activities, including the preparation and reconciliation of monthly, quarterly, and annual provisions, and ensure that accruals are accurately recorded in compliance with company policies and procedures.
•Drive financial performance management by monitoring and analyzing key financial and operational KPIs, identifying performance trends and providing actionable insights to senior management.
•Lead the preparation and delivery of monthly financial performance packages and management reports for the local leadership team.
•Lead comprehensive P&L analysis across all key financial areas, including Sales, Product COGS, Other Costs, Freight & Distribution, and SG&A, identifying and explaining key drivers and variances versus Prior Year, Forecast, and Budget.
•Analyze actual financial performance against Budget, Forecast, and Prior Year, ensuring that key deviations, risks, and opportunities are clearly identified, assessed, and communicated to senior management to support timely decision-making.
•Oversee the monthly update and analysis of US GAAP profitability reporting following Viatris Global consolidation activities and ensure the accuracy and consistency of reported results.
•Lead Product Volume, Price, and Mix analyses on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis to identify key business drivers and support commercial and financial decision-making.
•Partner with the Head of Finance to lead the quarterly forecasting, annual financial planning, and long-term strategic planning processes, ensuring alignment with Global and Local Management priorities and guidance.
•Lead and coordinate Forecast and Budget processes across functions, including the preparation of presentation materials and reporting templates, ensuring the timely collection, validation, consolidation, and submission of financial information.
•Provide strategic financial analysis and decision support on Sales & Marketing and General & Administrative expenses for senior management and Global teams.
•Act as a strategic Finance Business Partner to Marketing and other commercial functions, providing financial leadership for new product evaluations, business cases, sales and cost analyses, and other strategic initiatives.
•Lead and contribute to key Finance transformation and integration projects, including initiatives related to the Viatris merger, organizational changes, and process improvements.
•Act as the primary Finance contact and lead internal coordination for external and independent audit processes, ensuring the timely and accurate fulfillment of audit requirements and effective resolution of financial matters.
•Lead Net Working Capital and Balance Sheet planning and performance management, including Actual, Forecast, and Budget reporting, variance analysis, and identification of risks and opportunities affecting cash flow and overall financial performance.
•Ensure the accurate and timely completion of Global financial planning and reporting submissions, including GPR, P&L, Workforce Planning, and One-Time submissions, while maintaining strong governance and data quality.
•Oversee CAPEX planning and performance, ensuring approved capital expenditure budgets are effectively monitored, controlled, and aligned with business priorities.
•Drive Finance digital transformation initiatives, enhancing reporting, analytics, and decision-making capabilities through the development and implementation of Power BI and other digital tools.
Minimum Qualifications
•Education: University graduate / Master's degree (preferred)
•Language: English (Advanced level)
•Work Experience in similar role: min. 6-7 years
•Certificate: n/a
Key Leadership Behavioral Competencies
Responsible, decision maker and taking initiative, analytical and strategical thinker, able to work under stress and reaching stretch deadlines, team player, result-oriented, planned, careful.
Other Requirements
Advanced Windows programs (Excel, Word, Power Point), SAP FI, CO experience is a must.
