Senior Specialist Financial Planning & Analysis

Did you always want to work in a company where your work can have a real impact on people’s lives? Are you ready to Invent, Impact, Inspire? We would like to meet you!

We have an exciting new job opportunity at our Dutch location in Boxmeer and are looking to hire a

Senior Specialist Financial Planning & Analysis

Purpose of the role

Your role at our company is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. We’re inventing for life.

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives. The Senior Specialist Animal Health Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) will provide planning, financial analysis and reporting support to the Boxmeer and Global Research & Development (R&D) operations.

Welcome in our team

The Global Finance (R&D) Team is a small but enthusiastic international team based in both Boxmeer, The Netherlands and Madison, USA. You will be interacting with leading research scientists as well as the local Finance Accounting Team in Boxmeer and the Regional European Shared Service Center in Prague. The lines in our Finance Team are short and give a good opportunity for a proactive mindset to think along in ways to improve our service to the business.

Main responsibilities

• Act as a business partner to the Dutch R&D Management and establish creditability quickly through understanding of business issues and providing sound financial analytical support;

• Lead Dutch R&D month-end closing & reporting activities including cost center tracking and prepare monthly drivers commentary to enable business to make appropriate decisions;

• Analyze actual spending vs. budget and forecast on a cost center basis to ensure forecasts are met and provide financial support on the forecast and budget process for the Dutch R&D organizational and capital expenses and headcount. Review Study Spend accruals to ensure Department Heads are in-line with progress and spend rate of external study spend.

• Provide support for the R&D Biological and Pharmaceutical grant authorization request process used to initiate new external studies;

• Provide business case support for Dutch R&D capital investment projects;

• Coordinate and support the Dutch based R&D subsidies, in particular the WBSO subsidy;

• Collaborate with the Prague Business Support Center to coordinate between business and shared accounting administrative services;

• Identify process improvements to streamline month-end close and other activities to decrease time and complexity of tasks;

• Complete ad-hoc FP&A activities as needed.

What we offer

We welcome you to a truly global, dynamic and challenging environment with great opportunities for personal development. Our benefits are very competitive, and the summary below will give you an idea of what you can expect.

• Competitive salary and a 3% year-end allowance;

• 35,5 days of leave;

• Attractive collective health care insurance package with considerable reduction rates;

• Solid Pension Plan;

• Annual bonus based on own and company performance

• Company fitness;

• Travel allowance for commuting;

• Numerous training, coaching and e-learning modules for long term job opportunities and development.

For questions about this vacancy

Please send an email including the vacancy number and job title to the following email address: RecruitmentNL@MSD.com

Animal Health Division

Our Animal Health division is a trusted global leader in veterinary medicine, dedicated to the health and well-being of animals. We are a global team of professionals working together to make a positive difference in animal care and the world’s food supply and have a deep sense of responsibility towards our customers, consumers, animals, society and our planet. We offer one of our industry’s most innovative portfolio of products, services and technologies that serve to prevent, treat, and control diseases across all major farm and companion animal species.

Who we are…

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing for Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

INVENT.

IMPACT.

INSPIRE.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.