Finance Director
Description:
The Finance Director for South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa is a strategic business partner and a key member of the local country leadership team. This strong finance professional will play a critical role in providing strategic and operational leadership to the country organization, supporting a business of around USD150M-$200M. He/she will lead and develop a small team of Finance professionals, being responsible for Accounting, Financial Planning&Analysis and Internal Controls.
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.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop finance team
- Ensure financial statements fully comply with US-GAAP and local GAAP
- Ensure statutory tax compliance
- Support the implementation of Finance projects and ensure it is delivering timely and compliant services to the local organization
- Ensure that new/existing Policies & Procedures, Internal Controls are adapted to local and business requirements and in line with company standards
- Ensure efficient collaboration and process alignment with Shared Business Service teams
- Continuously challenge the status quo and provide innovative solutions for efficiencies to streamline processes
- Monitor actual performance vs plan and recommend timely corrective actions
- Provide recommendations to improve Human Health efficiency measures through optimization of resource allocation and P&L management
- Active involvement in pricing and reimbursement strategies
- Strategic input and active involvement in Business development deals
- Ensure requests, reports and presentations are submitted timely with high quality comments
- Provide strategic and operational business support
- Participate and lead cross-functional projects, also outside of core finance responsibility
- Have oversight on customer services and D&L topics (Route-to-customer, eIIMS, S&OP, etc.)
- Local oversight related to facilities management and car fleet management.
- Actively participate in local leadership team
- Financial stewardship
Qualifications:
- Relevant university degree and other financial qualifications
- Qualified Chartered Account CA (SA)
- Finance professional experience of more than 10 years
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage
- Strong knowledge of SAP, BPC and Office applications
Skills/Capabilities:
- Strong compliance mind-set and experience
- Ability to clearly communicate both orally and written
- Business acumen (e.g. knowledgeable in policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting the business)
- Capacity to negotiate at all levels of the company and particularly Senior Management
- Strong business understanding and strategic thinking / seeing the bigger picture
- Good knowledge of US GAAP
- Proactive and self-driven
- Capacity to solve complex situations
- Strong leadership skills to guide and collaborate with business partners
- Strong interpersonal skills: easy to get along with, optimist and passionate
- Strong people management skills
Our Support Functions deliver services and makes recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the experience of working at our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Shift:
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Number of Openings:
1
Requisition ID:R3903