Senior Specialist Controlling

What we offer:

• In 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!
  

Your Role:

The Senior Specialist Controlling 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 Senior Specialist Controlling pro-actively works 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. The Senior Specialist Controlling will be responsible for Serbia-Montenegro, South Adriatic countries (Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo) and Croatia and will be located in Belgrade.

• Maintain a Business Performance tracking framework including Key KPI’s and core financial reports already agreed by the region such as net sales, P&L, stock levels, DSO
• Maintain and drive monthly Business Reviews, ensuring complete, accurate and timely submission from Local to Regional
  
• Drive P&L management with focus on accurate Sales Forecasting, cost control and resource allocation
  
• Run the Planning and Forecasting processes in coordination with key stakeholders to deliver consistent, ambitious and reliable plans
  
• Challenge and investigate financial results with the objective of identifying performance gaps, checking progress towards budget achievement and recommending gap closing action
  
• 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
  
• Partnering in business development activities, owning the valuation tool 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
  

Who you are:

• Support business to meet operative plan
  
• Understanding pharma market specificities and evaluation processes, awareness of related legislation
  
• Ability to recognize problems, develop solutions and implement them within a complex environment
  
• Meet deadlines for all project deliverables with speed and accuracy
  
• Willing to take ownership for his/her work and challenge the status quo
  
• High quality and timely delivery of financial actual, budget and accuracy of forecasts
  
• Ability to build and maintain effective interpersonal relationships, and communicate effectively
  
• Team Player, Flexible and Can Do attitude
  
• Resilient and ability to work under pressure
  
• University degree in Economics / Finance
  
• 5 + 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 English
  

What we offer:

• Your possibilities to develop in our growing company are just as manifold as our product portfolio. We offer a modern and international working environment to unleash your innovative potential in diverse teams, and take responsibility for our employees, products, the environment and society.

Curious? Apply and find more information at www.come2merck.com