Financial Analyst Iii

In Ferentino, Italy, we are is responsible for the development and commercial production of drugs improving the life of millions of patients. Poised by significant investments, strong domain knowledge & unmatched quality system, we are targeting double-digit growth & strong margin expansion in the next few years.
To achieve this ambitious goal we’re looking for a **Senior Finance Analyst **to support our Commercial & Development operations in one of our largest & most successful sterile injectable sites.

The position reports to the Sr. Finance Manager, provides business partnership to our commercial and development functions leaders ensuring strong financial controls, compliance, and timely and accurate financial reporting. Overlooks at operations involving more than a thousand employees & generating Revenues in excess of $300M.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Forecast processes and cost saving initiatives;
- Period-end closure: consolidate, report and analyze P&L results, etc.; recommend accruals to ensure accurate reporting and identify anomalies and propose remediation actions;
- Develop, standardize and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights to support forecasting process; Drive improvements and accountability for Gross Margin (Price, Volume Mix, Net Productivity); Review key balance sheet metrics;
- Preparation of Monthly/Quarterly Business Review (MBR/QBR) with Leadership team in order to provide business insights and financial analysis;
- Promote preventive and corrective actions on the key competency areas, support improvement initiatives with active involvement in multi-site focus groups;
- Partner with the other Business Units finance representatives, with project managers, manufacturing and other functional areas to develop and track operational performance;
- Support cross functional projects such as the yearly Product Costing review;
- Participate as Finance Leader in practical process improvement (PPI) projects and develop the ability to communicate and illustrate accurate financials analysis to management;
- Provide ad-hoc analysis as required by Finance leadership on near-term business decisions and update dashboards and other business intelligence tools;
- Proactively learn and adopt both Company existing tools and new systems to improve analytics capability and accuracy;

As a team, we will create significant value for the dedicated Business Unit, helping to drive growth, improve productivity reducing complexity and improving transparency for the results of the division.

**Requirements/Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- 3+ years of relevant Finance work experience in a Manufacturing Company (Pharmaceutical sector is considered a plus but similarly regulated sectors - food, food testing and diagnostic - are positive as well)
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and BI Tools
- Having passions and being curious to business with high level of energy
- Finance professional knowledge and strong in financial reporting
- Excellent analytical and modeling skills
- System knowledge (SAP, HFM, Hyperion) is preferred
- Fluent English is required
- Limited travel involved, less than 10% of total time
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