Associate Director – Finance

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

The individual in this position will serve as a key financial business partner at the site. The primary focus of the position includes reporting, forecasting, and planning activities as well as business decision analysis. The ability to influence leadership and present complex financial information to non-financial personnel are key capabilities for this position. In addition, this position will be responsible for managing capital for the site.

• Planning – Development of expense plans, manufacturing throughput projections, product costs, and other site variances with business partners. Completion and submission of business plan templates. Accurate entry of plan information into site business systems.
• Forecasting – Development of updated financial forecasts with business partners as necessary, recommending adjustments and analyzing changes to previous forecasts. Experience with forecasting for expenses, absorption, and capital spending.
• Reporting – Coordination of the month-end close process. Analysis of monthly manufacturing results. Reporting of results to both manufacturing and financial management. Coordination of the reporting process for site performance metrics.
• Controllership – Ensure the proper development of product costs and the proper financial treatment of manufacturing activities, including the correct statement of site expenses and throughput, product inventories, and site variances. Work with site engineering resources to develop the site capital plan and monitor site capital spending. Serve as local resource for capital spending and fixed asset policies and practices. Plan and forecast depreciation expense as new assets are capitalized.
• Business Partnering - Active participation in flow lead teams, providing a financial perspective on business decisions of all types and education on financial principles. Measure operational performance and assess/implement improvement opportunities.
• Site Process Support – Coordinate and serve as subject matter expert on one or more site processes, including, but not limited to, site metrics, capital management, inventory management, and/Sarbanes-Oxley financial controls. Develop/coordinate local processes to gather, analyze, and report data as required by corporate or site management to ensure proper controls and provide data for decision-making or performance assessment.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Equivalent.
• Seven (7) years of finance/accounting experience, specifically planning, forecasting, and reporting activities.

Additional Preferences:

• MBA or CPA.
• Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SAP experience/knowledge.
• Demonstrated learning agility and ability/willingness to adapt to continual change within a startup environment.
• Pharmaceutical or manufacturing specific experience/knowledge.
• Cost accounting and capital management experience/knowledge.
• Ability to work effectively on cross functional teams as well as independently.
• Strong problem solving and prioritization capabilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience with creating and implementing visualization tools (innovation)

Other Information:

• The position is located onsite at the RTP site.
• This role is an individual contributor role.
• Periodic travel may be required to other sites (< 10%).

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Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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