ED, US AH Commercial Controlling

Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Executive Director, US Animal Health Commercial Controlling will act as key Finance business partner to AH Commercial business management (inc. FAD and CMD) and interface to Corporate/Global BU in all financial matters related to US Commercial Business. This role will ensure effective partnership by providing financial and strategic guidance, financial transparency, challenging business partners and units appropriately.

The ED, US AH Commercial Controlling will lead the AH Commercial Controlling team. The incumbent will provide financial leadership as a member of the Animal Health Commercial Leadership Team; partnering across AH functions to develop and implement business plans, analyze performance, prioritize investments, and ensure proper and optimal alignment to achieve strategic business objectives. This role is responsible to monitor progress against strategic business objectives as well as identify and recommend solutions to business and financial opportunities and risks. The incumbent will ensure an effective partnership model across all business segments by providing financial and business guidance in support of realizing strategic business objectives.

The ED, US AH Commercial Controlling provides financial transparency and challenges business partners in a market-focused, solutions-oriented, collaborative, and communicative manner. The position holder will lead the accurate and timely development of financial planning and performance reporting, related forecasts, and supporting analyses as well as drive business and financial integration across the value chain

Duties & Responsibilities

Business Partnering & Leadership:

• Aligns planning cornerstones with OPU/BU management. Lead (incl. collect/challenge/enhance) BU planning process and challenge local mgmt.
• Generates documentation, comments, and presentation etc. for discussions and meetings, i.e. Annual Discussion.
• Submits planning data.
• Supports updating BU risk & opportunities list.
• Monitors, tracks, and challenges local KPIs.
• Interprets financial information, identifies, and analyzes trends/deviations for defined KPIs & measures.
• Defines measures/corrective actions and evaluate impact for defined KPIs.
• Ensures proper implementation of corporate reporting requirements.
• Performs market and business case evaluations (incl. operational decisions).
• Performs/comments on (ad-hoc) analysis.
• Performs monitoring and deviation analysis on cost object/cost element level.
• Responsible for opportunity analysis and risk monitoring/evaluation (evaluate impact and define measures/corrective actions).
• Performs internal/external benchmarking.
• Defines local specifics (translate local business to data model) and provides information for GBS processing.
• Actively participates during Internal & External audits (support central controlling in compliance matters).
• Controlling accountability for US AH income statement from Gross Sales through CCMIIIA.
• Drives implementation of target profitability guidance.
• Provides transparency for investment trade-offs and decisions; optimizes resource allocations accordingly across all spend categories.
• Evaluates and approves contract proposals for managed market accounts.
• Ensures proper and sufficient accounting of sales rebate and discount provisions.
• Represents AH business financial/ business activities with other F&C functions.

Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting:

• Drives the development of all financial forecasts; Outlook, Long Term Forecasts (LTF), and Budget for the AH BU Commercial Business.
• Drives collaboration with business partners to ensure cross-functional alignment and risk-balanced plans.
• Collaborates with respective local and global stakeholders in Annual Review Cycle (ARC) led by global teams.
• Interprets financial plans to enable proactive decision making.
• Provides constructive challenge to Business Partners using insight from market developments and learnings from experience.

Analysis and Reporting

• Tracks performance against business plans, strategic business objectives and related financial targets.
• Oversees financial reporting to stakeholders (both local and global) that enables easy understanding of the key drivers of business performance.
• Develops, recommends, and implements solutions to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensures transparency of financial performance at AH business level and across segments, brand business teams.
• Evaluates strategic business opportunities (incl. new product launches, line extensions, product/business acquisitions, partnerships/alliances).

Governance & Policy:

• Responsible for integrity of financial data across processes and systems within AH business.
• Provides support for internal, external, and alliance/partnership audits.
• Decides report recipients, content, frequency.
• Defines local target KPIs.

Partnerships, Alliances & Affiliates Controlling:

• Provides financial and operational guidance and support (including reporting) to all co-promotion partnerships, partnership/collaboration agreements and other alliances.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Finance/Accounting required.
• MBA in Economics and/or Business Administration preferred.
• CPA and/or Professional Training preferred.
• Ten-plus (10+) years’ work experience with increasing responsibility in Finance, Accounting and Operations.
• Previous experience as a Controller or Finance Director with P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility highly desired.

Core Skills:

• Demonstrated SAP knowledge, strong financial planning and analysis skills, and related systems/tools knowledge.
• Demonstrated advanced knowledge of financial accounting and reporting principles.
• Demonstrated senior level business experience and acumen.
• Ability to visualize, articulate, and solve complex issues and make decisions that are sensible and based on available information.
• Ability to use a variety of techniques to influence Business Partners at all levels of local and global organization.
• Ability to plan and manage multiple priorities under high pressure situations with tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage Business Partner relations and expectations.

Leadership Skills & Demonstrated Experience:

• Ability to build and share a long-term vision and to translate vision into action.
• Ability to lead and manage people individually and in a team setting.
• Ability to develop team members in professional, leadership and core competencies.
• Ability to handle conflict resolution and negotiate difficult issues.

Professional Skills:

• Ability to use information to accelerate decision making, improve processes and solutions, and drive business value.
• Ability to understand business risk and translate those risks to financial data and suggest mitigation options.
• Ability to understand the value chain quickly and incorporate that acumen into value-added recommendations.
• Ability to traverse the intersection of business, medicine, science, and technology.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

Additional Duties & Responsibilities:

Talent Management:

• Leads talent management within AH Business Controlling to ensure that talent is appropriately developed and adequately matched with responsibilities and business needs.
• Creates opportunities to challenge and develop team in preparation for new/expanded roles and responsibilities.
• Provides coaching, training, and support to encourage the development of both controlling and business expertise.

International Projects

• Represents Commercial Finance and Controlling as a key stakeholder on (international) projects related to the AH business.
• Oversees business support and guidance to the management team in efforts to project management and controlling including business specific interpretation.
• Ensures cross-functional and global alignment and adherence to project timelines and objectives.

Service Design & Execution

• Tracks and executes measures defined by BU (business unit).
• Delivers BU country-specific information.
• Renders local specifics reports (exception) and generates OPU/BU specific management reports.
• Generates commentaries for period end.
• Addresses (master data) requests to GBS.
• Collects provision information for BU specific issues from business partners.