Senior Finance Associate

**HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?** If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us. **Accountabilities (South Africa)** Reports** **to Senior Finance Manager ELI & ZA (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran and South Africa) - Coordinates preparation of forecasts and budgets - Provides recommendations to BU based on analysis of deviations from budgets - Provides leadership, consultancy and financial support to various company functions, teams and departments - Acts as link between Finance and Business Units - Acts as link between Business Units and SCM (Production Planning) - Manages the reporting processes (Analytical Management) **Responsibilities (South Africa)** - Own the financial planning cycles and enable the right decision making by providing accurate and clear financial analysis, modelling of "what if" scenarios as well as coordination cross functionally to ensure the plan is driving the right and strong assumptions base. - Ensures timely production of monthly forecasts of sales trends in coordination with business analysts; supports production planning - Monitors actual and forecasted cost and revenues (on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis) as well as ensure the right controls are in place. - Leads long-term planning support activities. - Ensures all company data is collected, derived and consolidated data from all departments in order to produce reliable forecasting and plans - Monitors contracts (insurances, leasing, rents, etc.) - Leads F&A projects locally and may participate in International projects - Ensures budget data is accurately submitted in Anaplan/ Hyperion. - Communicates and provides direction to BU Managers about financial trends and their business implications. - Provides decision support to various stakeholders (BU’s, project teams, functions) **Authority** - Take decisions within the agreed company guidelines - Take the ownership and decide on the claims, DNs and CNs to vendors and distributors with its related payments - Decide on the best resource allocation to maximize business growth across the cluster **Outputs** - Financial Analysis for decision support - Budget, Latest Estimate (i.e., LE) - Sales forecasts for production planning - Long-range plan / Country Operating Plan - Management reporting to management team and the different departments - Presentations on demand of management team and the different departments - Management reporting to the parent company **Qualifications** **Minimum Requirements** - Degree in Economics or Business Administration - Experience of 5-7 years work in similar position/s in an international environment, preferably in pharma industry - Experience in accounting, budgeting and planning - Fluency in English, both in written and oral communication - Excellent user of Office Programs as Word, Excel, PowerPoint **Preferred Requirements** - Studies specialized in finance (financial analysis, controlling, accounting, consolidating) - MBA would be an advantage - Experience in various areas of finance and accounting - Experience of 2 to 3 years in a Management position within an international finance department would be an asset - Industry knowledge - Basic know-how of applicable laws concerning business admin, taxes (esp. VAT), accounting and consolidation - Basic knowledge of US GAAP - Experience with SAP - Experience with Hyperion, Anaplan COGNOS GPS planning and reporting (Powerplay) **Competencies** - Demonstrates advanced communication skills and abilities - Regularly represent the company and function internally and externally - Collaborates, negotiates and persuades others, both internally and externally - Demonstrates a strong customer focus in all activities - Analyses complex problems; integrates disciplinary and business strategy knowledge to develop recommendations - Demonstrates strong project management and planning skills - Learns quickly; motivates other to adapt quickly to new systems, processes and tools - Develops leadership and coaching skills - Develops management and delegation skills - Serves as a role model for Amgen Values **What you can expect of us** As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being. - Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization - Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act - Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits In our quest to serve patients abov