Finance Analyst - Manufacturing Finance (Lebanon, IN)

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

For 140 years, Lilly has manufactured medicines that improve people’s lives around the world. We produce our medicines using some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards. Lilly Manufacturing strives for excellence in its process, standards, procedures and behaviors to develop medicines with safety first and quality always.

Lilly is currently constructing an advanced manufacturing facility for production of API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) molecules located in Lebanon, IN. This facility is Lilly’s largest investment in manufacturing capacity and is intended to provide APIs for current and future products, including new modalities. This is an outstanding opportunity to be a part of the startup team for a greenfield manufacturing site, and the successful candidate will help to build the processes and facility to enable a successful startup into GMP manufacturing operations.

This position is a member of the Lebanon API Finance, Procurement and CCI team and serves as a Finance key business partner for the manufacturing site’s operational and functional leadership. Key responsibilities of the position include financial 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. Additionally, the role will have responsibility to influence the site to be more cost effective and work with new sites to seek best practices.

Do you have experience in cost accounting in a manufacturing or regulated environment? Bring your finance skills and join a dynamic and growing team and company!

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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 accounting 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 contribution in flow lead teams, providing a financial perspective on business decisions of all types and education on financial principles and accounting policies. 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/or 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 compliance and provide data for decision-making or performance assessment.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related business field and 2 years of experience in Finance or related role
• Pharmaceutical or manufacturing specific experience/knowledge as well as cost accounting experience/knowledge highly preferred.
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization and/or visas for this role.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• MBA or CPA.
• Excellent communication / facilitation and influencing skills with ability to translate complex financial topics simply
• Analytical & organizational skills

Additional Information:

• Travel <10%
• Location: Lebanon, IN (will be temporarily located at Lilly Corporate Center while site is under construction)

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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

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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