Finance Lead, Alliance Management Reporting

The Finance Lead drives the financial planning and analysis processes and requirements across businesses supported ensuring compliance with financial policies, preparing financial analysis and implementing process improvements for direct area of responsibility. This role will also provide accurate and timely financial analysis and planning deliverables to meet organization requirements.

• Lead the JCC / FWG for the JBI collaboration, ensuring that appropriate collaboration-required reporting is completed.
• Validate quarterly, correctness of invoice payment to JBI.
• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close / reporting processes for OUS revenue ensuring accurate and timely reporting of results in accordance with GAAP and reporting requirements of Alliance Partners.
• Leads and develops monthly, quarterly, and annual Plan, LRP and LBEs as required, including P&L, headcount, balance sheet, expense and capital using planning system and incorporates review changes of both financial and operating management.
• Operates independently to prepare relevant variance analysis for each planning cycle and develops meaningful Management Reporting schedules for direct areas supported.
• Works directly with Accounting Shared Service contact on monthly close process and financial reporting to ensure complete, accurate and timely monthly actual results, including variance analysis and commentary for P&L, headcount, and balance sheet. Understands monthly results and communicates issues vs. benchmark to businesses supported to agree on resolution or action plan.
• Provides management with clear insights into drivers of business and financial performance and risk; assesses business/market opportunities and informs/recommends prioritization decisions.
• Leads financial reviews and approvals (purchase order requests and invoices).
• Leads ad hoc analysis, projects and process improvements as needed.
• May have supervisory responsibility for one or more direct reports

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting. CPA or MBA a plus.
• Minimum 6 years of progressive and related experience.
• Strong financial, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Proficient Excel skills required.
• Knowledge of SAP and TM1 a plus.