**Job Description**:
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.
**Position Mission**:
To be responsible for financial management activities, ensuring accuracy and integrity of budgeting, reporting, investment analysis, billing and compliance with corporate policies at strategic levels. Active role in Human Health Management Team, assisting and developing company strategic plan and support the senior team.
**Responsibilities**:
- Acting strongly as a financial partner to the Business Units and General Manager;
- Responsible for managing and securing the entire FP&A activities on timely, such as short-term Budget review, long term Strategic Plan, monthly forecast, consolidation and management reports;
- Responsible for Sales and Commercial Discounts management;
- Validate planning assumptions and ensure all planning inputs (gross to net, pricing, volume, PGM and expenses) are delivered and accurately reflected in systems.
- Provide inputs in the development of business and financial strategies and plans that will effectively support both short and long-term financial;
- Responsible to provide an accurate latest update on business performance. Closely monitor all revenues and expenses and report potential gaps to Senior Team.
- Coordinate timelines and deliverables with Regional/Corporate Finance.
- Ensures compliance with Brazilian generally accepted accounting principles and US GAAP, corporate finance policies and procedures, internal control processes, risk management and finance reporting requirements.
- Identify underlying performance issues and initiate appropriate corrective action to keep the company on its target earnings course.
- Monitor P&L by product, Business and Subsidiary ensuring all entries are posted.
- Support pricing process including annual price increases and volume/price analysis.
- Manage discount and Promotional planning, true-up/accrual process.
- Process improvement responsibility and act as gatekeeper for data and system accuracy.
- Create effective and efficient ways of working with Business Units, Regional, Corporate, and Business Operations.
- Establishment of controls to guarantee compliance locally.
- Support internal and external audits.
- Ensure the team delivers the highest standard of departmental and cross departmental customer service.
- Ensure optimal deployment of resources to achieve business goals.
- Lead and develop business analytics staff.
**Requisitions**:
- Bachelor degree in Finance, Business, Engineering or similar.
- Significant analytical skills, including utilization of BI and reporting tools would be a plus.
- Excellent Microsoft office knowledge, especially Microsoft Excel. VBA and SQL would be a plus.
- Multinational pharmaceutical industry experience desirable.
- Mandatory fluency in Portuguese and English. Spanish desirable.
- CPA and/or a MBA would be a plus.
- Experience in the Financial area. Relevant experience in FP&A.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with partners at all levels of the organization.
Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.
**Who we are**
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, 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**
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
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 emp