Senior Financial Controller

Job Description:

At Ferring Pharmaceuticals, we help people around the world build families and live better lives. We are entrepreneurial and innovative, with a global team focused on scientific advances in the areas of reproductive and women’s health, gastroenterology, and urology. Ferring + You is all about working together and sharing ideas, so that we can bring science to life for patients around the world.

Our Commercial teams collaborate as trusted partners with patient groups, clinicians, policy makers and the scientific community to identify and develop new opportunities to help patients. Customer centric, we offer an empowering, entrepreneurial culture – and a place to thrive and grow.

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The role contributes to the definition, development and management of a planning and management control system able to ensure the company achieves its business results, through the coordination of the budgeting process, the collection, assessment and analysis of results, and support to the interpretation and making of decisions. The role reports to the country Finance Director.

Your day at Ferring

Working in close collaboration with the country Finance organization and ensuring timely achievement of the below tasks:
Period end closing and reporting:

Ensure key controlling task and analytical processes in our month closing (e.g., Purchase order accruals, right postings and accuracy and other ensuring high quality)

• Perform analytical review

• Perform Internal Controls

Inventory management and validation:

• Coordinate with supply chain accuracy for the forecasting process in coordination with the business, FD and Regional SNO team.

• Provide financial advice about the potential financial effects of not having the product supplies on time. Help to build back up plans in coordination with logistics.

Financial budgeting and planning:

• Contribute to achieving financial ambitious goals and targets; and challenge budget of other departments and of other organizational units if applicable.

• Forecast P&L and cash flow.

• Coordinate with the FD the budget, forecast, business plan processes.

• Ensure high level of forecast financial accuracy and meet working capital targets.

Costing:

• Perform variance analysis.

• Support FD to analyze Transfer price schemes in coordination with CoE (Lisbon) and FD.

Management reporting and forecasting:

• Prepare period financial forecast.

• Analyze on a month basis product P&Ls and ensure and heads up as needed the right allocations vs planned.

• Evaluate financial performance by advise and challenge the business with timely and proactive analyses, assessments of variances to the plans, financial impacts and risks; provide management information to other departments; inform timely on any unexpected issue impacting potentially the financial performance of the Country and Area, propose/implement corrective actions; identify areas of improvement in business and organization and propose implementation plan, monitor key ratios; identify & implement synergies across the country; propose efficiency improvement measures.

Projects and improvements:

• Support Regional WEC/HQ/Corporate Finance in the implementation of corporate Finance programs, processes or procedures which are to be locally applied.

• Contribute to performance management and drive continuous improvement initiatives e.g. propose standardized and coordinated use of financial information systems, identify and propose optimization measures.

Compliance and integrity:

• Strict implementation and adherence to internal guidelines (ICS matrix), instructions, processes and systems, local as well as global.

• Contribute in internal audits and external in the controlling area.

• Strict adherence to the local fiscal and finance related regulations of the respective country.

• Risk management: Inform relevant parties timely on potential issues, assess the risks and propose corrective measures.

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with the CoE in all accounting and analytical processes.

• Collaborate with SDM’s to ensure smooth service delivery.

• Collaborate with GPO to work on continuous process improvements.

• Collaborate with BPO to ensure a smooth relationship and a seamless delivery of the in-scope finance activities.

Finance strategy and business partnering:

• Advise and challenge business with timely and proactive analyses, assessments of variances to the plans, financial impacts and risks.

• Provide Management Information to other departments.

• Inform timely on any unexpected issue impacting potentially the financial performance of the Country and Area.

• Propose/implement corrective actions.

• Identify areas of improvement in business and organization and propose implementation plan.

• Monitor key ratios.

Finance Policy:

• Strict implementation of IFRS and internal guidelines across the entities (and others if applicable).

• Adherence to the local fiscal and finance related regulations of the respective country.

• Inform timely on potential issues, assess the risks and propose corrective measures.

Behind our innovation…There’s you

• University master’s degree in finance or economics.

• 7- years’ experience in Finance and at least 2 years’ working experience as finance analyst in a multinational environment.

• Demonstrated understanding of financial and accounting principles and processes.

• Demonstrated experience in leading teams, on- and offshore.

• An analytical mindset and be a self-starter, being able to see opportunities and solve problems independently.

• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, being able to work with both management and employees in the organization.

• Presenting your views and being challenged.

• Work independently with the ability to influence multiple stakeholders

• Ability to work in decentralized finance structure.

• Ability to set long-term financial targets and sponsor performance improvement projects.

• Professional business English (oral and written) as well as local language as required.

• IFRS knowledge.

People come first at Ferring

• Get inspired from our commitment to advocate for everyone’s right to build a family, no matter who you are, where you live or who you love.

• Our inclusive support package – “Building Families at Ferring” provides equal and accessible policies for all employees who wish to start their family journey, ensuring a global standard, irrespective of location and role.

• Parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents.

• Extended support on family building journey.

Making a difference in the life of millions of people means we succeed by working together. Our diverse backgrounds, experiences, expertise, and perspectives enable us to find solutions to even the most challenging problems, and our success is tied to each team member’s contributions. Imagine the power of your career when it’s Ferring + You.

Behind our purpose… There’s you

If our mission and your vision are aligned, please apply!

We strive to build and maintain an inclusive and diverse workplace with equal opportunities and mutual respect for all employees regardless of their backgrounds and socioeconomic status.

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Location:Ferring Spain