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Location - Bridgewater, NJ
Duration - 11 - 12 Months
Job Responsibilities:
Location - Bridgewater, NJ
Duration - 11 - 12 Months
Job Responsibilities:
- Strong financial analysis and excel skills and ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast pace environment to proactively analyze, reconcile, and understand financial results, provide clear and accurate commentary for key business drivers, and identify root issues and recommend/drive remediation.
- Strong and effective verbal and written communication skills with internal and external customers are required.
- External 3rd party customer interactions are required with multiple large customers within the scope of SBS NA CI2C along with external auditors.
- Internal communications and cross-functional collaborations are required with SBS NA and Global Finance, Group Corporate Headquarters, Treasury, Supply Chain, Chargeback Operations, Trade Commercial Operations, Marketing, Finance Controlling, SOX Internal Controls & Governance, and Information Technology.
- Establish trusted relationships with trade, direct (e.g. hospital, clinic, physician), international and contract manufacturing customers to ensure invoices are paid according to contractual terms & conditions.
- Daily review of orders placed on credit referral to determine if they can be shipped. Investigate the reason for the referral and take appropriate action to resolve the issue while balancing sound financial stewardship principles and supporting operational business needs.
- Provide on-going proactive feedback to management concerning customer accounts receivable and financial status, including a monthly aging summary report with commentary to ensure alignment and awareness of potential collection issues or credit risks.
- The ideal candidate will be required to work with internal and external customers and stakeholders to understand and analyze Sales, AR & GTN Deductions, Sales forecasts, Credit risk reports to assess customer liquidity risks and opportunities, and Customer financial statements (private and/or public) data in order to:
- Recommend credit limits adjustments for new and existing customers
- Assess and analyze blocked sales orders by working with 3rd party customers, marketing, and commercial operations
- Ensure 3rd party customer AR account statements and activity including GTN deductions and refunds are accurate and timely reported and reconciled in order to minimize past due balances
- Provide a high level of customer service/support which includes responding to customers inquiries to ensure alignment and minimize business interruption
- Support special projects (global and regional) that develop throughout the year
- Ability to understand the end-to-end CI2C process in order to proactively drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Continuous improvement LEAN, root cause, and end to end (E2E) process mindset
- Strong financial analysis to identify fact-based trends and explanations to continually enhance DSO and AR cash receipt forecast accuracy and optimize working capital
- Ability to efficiently and effectively multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- SAP and/or S4 Hana experience within the US Pharmaceutical industry is a plus
- Independent contributor with no direct reports
- Functional expertise in areas of financial analysis, credit risk assessment & collection, deduction management resolution.
- Proactively identifies issues or concerns and works with others to determine an effective course of action.
- Prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a timely and accurate manner.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbal and in writing and work as a team member.
- The high degree of independent problem solving, negotiating and decision-making skills.
- High proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office applications, specifically Advanced Excel and PowerPoint.
