Financial Manager, Licensing and M&A

Gr?nenthal GmbH; Aachen; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global pharmaceutical leader in Aachen is looking for a professional to join their M&A team. The role involves driving financial assessments of licensing and M&A projects, collaborating with various stakeholders, and managing impairment tests. Candidates should possess a degree in economics or finance, strong communication skills, and ideally relevant professional certifications. This full-time position offers a hybrid working environment, contributing to impactful corporate projects in pain management.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in economics, business administration, or finance required.
• Experience in Valuation, M&A, or Controlling is beneficial.
• Professional certifications (CFA, ACCA, CPA) preferred.

Aufgaben

• Drive and support financial assessment and analysis of M&A projects.
• Challenge business cases and foster project documentation.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage and perform impairment tests for the group.

Kenntnisse

Engagement and assertiveness

Understanding of complex economic relationships

Good communication skills

Persuasiveness

Fluent in business English

Ausbildung

University degree in economics, business administration or finance

Jobbeschreibung

Professional | Permanent | Full-time | Hybrid

Our Corporate Functions teams make sure everything at Grünenthal runs smoothly by bringing together people with a wide range of skills – from experts in finance, IT, HR, law and compliance through to business strategists and creative media minds. If you’re a great collaborator and a strong communicator, you’ll feel right at home here. Join our team and join forces with colleagues across our business to maximise our company’s positive impact on patients and their families.

What the job looks like

• Be part of Grünenthal’s M&A team – drive, coordinate and support financial assessment and analysis of licensing and M&A projects
• Challenge business cases, drive overarching comparisons and foster consistent project assumptions and documentation
• Collaborate closely with internal (e.g., Corporate Strategy, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Controlling) and external stakeholders (e.g., auditors, FDD consultants)
• Support the negotiation team in contract design from a financial/strategic perspective
• Manage and perform impairment tests of Grünenthal group
• Flexibly take on new tasks and challenges in a dynamic environment

What you’ll bring to the table

• University degree in economics, business administration or finance
• A high degree of engagement and assertiveness
• Excellent understanding of complex economic relationships and ability to model those reliably
• Good communication skills at all levels, high sense of responsibility and persuasiveness
• Ideally, relevant professional certifications (e.g. CFA, ACCA, CPA), relevant working experience (e.g. Valuation, M&A, Controlling) and experience in project management
• Fluent in business English, German is a plus

"In this position you will be supporting and consulting project leads and core project teams in all corporate driven business development, licensing and M&A projects."

Wojciech Musial, the Hiring Manager

Grünenthal is a global leader in pain management and related diseases. As a science‑based, privately‑owned pharmaceutical company, we have a long track record of bringing innovative treatments and state‑of‑the‑art technologies to patients worldwide. Our purpose is to change lives for the better – and innovation is our passion. We are focussing all of our activities and efforts on working towards our vision of a world free of pain.

Grünenthal is headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and has affiliates in 28 countries across Europe, Latin America and the US. Our products are available in more than 100 countries. In 2024, Grünenthal employed around 4,300 people and achieved sales of € 1.8 billion.