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Merck & Co, Inc
Senior Financial Analyst
Job Description
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.
Position Description:
The Human Health Finance Center of Excellence (CoE) is responsible for leading the financial planning, analysis, and reporting activities for the Human Health (commercial) division.
The Senior Specialist, Human Health Finance CoE position plays a key role as part of the Human Health CoE and the boarder Finance team. As a member of the COE team, this role is responsible for providing critical financial support for the Human Health Division to make informed business decisions and to help ensure accurate and thorough financial planning and reporting deliverables.
Successful performance within this function requires strong analytical skills, developing an in depth understanding of our Company’s actual and planning systems (FSA, HFM, BPC) and a desire to continuously improve processes.
Candidates must have the ability to analyze and succinctly present financial aspects of complex business issues with a high degree of accuracy and at times under very tight time constraints.
This position reports to the Director, HH Financial Planning and Reporting COE and is located in Kenilworth, NJ. The position is expected to relocate to Rahway, NJ in 2023.
Primary Activities, include (but are not limited to) the following:
Supporting the month-end and quarter-end actuals reporting process for Human Health
Supporting the roll-up and analysis of Human Health’s forecasts, tallies, and long-range operating plan
Creation of analytics, reports, and review materials to detail Human Health’s financials for senior management
Serving as the Finance point for Human Health Administration and Human Health Finance budgets and liaising with the budget owners
Helping coordinate other key financial activities including the intangible asset impairment process, headcount reporting, and SAP master data maintenance
Supporting or leading ad hoc projects and analyses in support of the Human Health division or Finance
Position Qualifications:
Education Minimum Requirement:
Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Degree in a related field
MBA, CPA, or CFA Preferred
Required Experience and Skills:
Minimum of 2 years of experience in Finance / Accounting, business analytics, or any other closely relevant experience
Strong communication skills and ability to succinctly explain key takeaways from large sets of data
Comfortable employing financial modeling methods, tools and IT applications to collect, analyze, synthesize and validate financial data to support complex business decisions
Understanding of data analysis that would allow for pre-emptive identification of issues and their implications
Ability to adopt and apply new technology and techniques
Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.
Who we are …
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for …
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
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1Requisition ID:R203813