Job Summary

To ensure that business decision making , financial reporting and financial performance with respect to the Searchlight business can be supported by providing analytics, accounting and reporting for revenue activities focused on pricing and trade deal/fund management and execution.

The Analyst is responsible for working collaboratively and partnering with both Finance and Sales to set and maintain pricing and related reconciliations across the business.

Résumé du poste:

L’analyste en planification et analyse financières joue un rôle essentiel pour garantir des rapports précis et opportuns sur les performances de l’entreprise, ainsi que des prévisions financières complètes et fiables. Il s’agit d’un poste à forte visibilité, qui constitue une ressource clé pour le directeur de la planification et de l’analyse financières ainsi que pour les autres décideurs de haut niveau du secteur commercial.

Ce poste exige un grand souci du détail, de solides capacités d’analyse ainsi que d’excellentes compétences en communication orale et écrite. 

Le candidat idéal possédera une solide expérience en planification et analyse financières (FP&A), ainsi qu’une expérience pratique de la gestion d’un modèle financier d’entreprise, du partenariat avec les unités fonctionnelles et de la création d’outils d’analyse commerciale pertinents.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for the monthly and quarterly financial analysis for revenue and trade spend against forecasts and plans by molecule and customer.
• Responsible for the monthly and quarterly financial analysis and reconciliation of Rep Target performance as established in the Budget submission / Latest Forecast.
• Responsible for input into pricing decisions as needed.
• Ensures revenue reporting is in accordance with company policies including revenue recognition rules.
• Executes and maintains all accruals for gross to net calculations for sales discounts, allowances and trade programs and returns provisions.
• Verify and analyze sales, chargeback and upfront rates, wholesaler inventories, returns, in-transit shipments, and other data for accuracy and completeness to ensure appropriate reserves and resolve variances to forecast.
• Prepare monthly channel inventory rollforwards used to calculate channel accruals as needed
• Provide a variance analysis vs, plan/forecast and present sales and financial results for monthly and quarterly meetings
• Prepare and maintain journal entries posted for product revenue and gross to-to-net accruals
• Calculate and provide analysis for financial impact of price changes, returns reserves, chargebacks, and any other adjustments to revenue and gross-to-net assumptions
• Calculate channel accrual rates by customer and product as part of month-end closing
• Confirms the validity and appropriateness of payments and deductions
• Responds and complies with internal and external audit requirements
• Supports cost center reporting and analysis for the business
• Assists in the development of budgets and forecasts, including validating pricing and Net Sales assumptions for the IBP process.
• Works in a safe manner collaborating as a team member to achieve all outcomes.
• Demonstrate Behaviours that exhibit our organizational Values: Integrity, Courage, Teamwork, and Innovation.
• Ensure personal adherence with all compliance programs including the Global Business Ethics and Compliance Program, Global Quality policies and procedures, Safety and Environment policies, and HR policies.
• All other relevant duties as assigned.

Responsabilités inhérentes au poste:

• Effectuer une analyse mensuelle des écarts en comparant les résultats réels aux budgets et aux prévisions, et déterminer les principaux facteurs de performance
• Participer à l’élaboration des prévisions trimestrielles continues en collaborant avec les principaux partenaires commerciaux et en examinant les hypothèses actuelles
• Élaborer et maintenir des modèles financiers pour les prévisions et la budgétisation
• Animer les réunions mensuelles d’évaluation du service et fournir un soutien au besoin
• Préparer toutes les provisions des revenues et des calculs du brut au net, y compris les rabais des ventes, la rétrofacturation et les retours 
• Superviser les comptes clients et les flux de trésorerie, et être le principal point de contact de l’équipe de recouvrement externe
• Déterminer les occasions d’amélioration de l’efficacité grâce à l’automatisation, aux améliorations des systèmes et aux processus évolutifs

Job Requirements

• Education
  • University Degree in Business / Accounting or relevant field and Accounting Professional Designation preferred
    
    
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Knowledge of a sales organization’s business processes.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in the use of SAP, and BW modules as well as PC based analytical tools such as Access (databases), Excel (spreadsheets), Visual Basic, project management and word processing software.
  • Ability to make effective decisions in a timely manner with high attention to detail.
  • Ability to work with all levels within the organization in terms of people, processes and systems. Organizational agility.
  • Ability to understand the organizations vision and goals and the ability to communicate and actions them in an effective manner.
  • Excellent oral and written English communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
  • Strong command skills to support forecasting “watchdog” role.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to relate well to and collaborate with internal and external customers
    
    
• Experience
  • 3-5 years pharmaceutical or business experience (accounting with an emphasis on accrual management, data analytics, forecasting, financial analysis, statistical modeling and analytics)

Exigences du poste:

• Baccalauréat en finance, en comptabilité ou dans un domaine connexe et une désignation professionnelle (CPA, CFA, MBA)
• Trois années d’expérience en planification et analyse financières
• Maîtrise avancée d’Excel et de la modélisation financière
• Une expérience de travail avec SAP, les outils EPM (OneStream, Hyperion ou Anaplan) et les outils d’IA est préférable
• Solides compétences analytiques, souci du détail et capacité à prioriser dans un environnement dynamique
• Excellentes compétences en communication écrite et orale