Director Financial Planning & Analysis HF

MSD; Paris; Hybride; EUR 80 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking a Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Lead located in Paris, France. This role involves providing key financial insights and decision support to the organization. Candidates should possess strong leadership skills, a minimum of 10 years of experience in controlling, and be bilingual in French and English. This full-time position offers opportunities for innovative financial reporting and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Controlling
• Proven successful team management experience required.
• Bilingual in English and French.

Responsabilités

• Provide decision support to management.
• Manage and coordinate market planning and reporting activities.
• Collaborate on financial presentations.

Connaissances

Analytical Thinking

Financial Planning

People Leadership

Relationship Building

Change Management

Formation

Bachelors degree

Masters degree

Outils

PowerBI

Dataiku

Description du poste

Job Description

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Lead is a pillar of the local Finance organization and a critical partner to the Business. The incumbent is a member of the Finance Local Leadership Team and as such contributes with his / her financial expertise to the decision-making process and strategic direction of the local organization. The incumbent should quickly adapt to new ways of working and technologies to help drive innovative solutions.

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making.

The FP&A Lead provides ongoing finance business support to the local organization by managing and overseeing all local planning forecasting & reporting activities and providing insights into key business drivers. Through his / her unique position the FP&A Lead sees the organization end to end which enables him / her to monitor the financial state of the business utilizing appropriate KPIs evaluating risks and opportunities as well as providing guidance on expense management.

What we look for

Must have excellent leadership skills a strong focus on quality and ethics as well as multi-tasking capability.

Must be analytical, innovative, confident and influential.

Communicate new ways of working / strategies throughout the Finance organization and throughout the business.

Contributes to the building of capability within her / his organization in the continuous improvement of Finance division namely in what regards new digital tools.

Participate actively in any improvement discussions contributing as per experience of any internal challenges in her / his field and outside her / his organization.

Major Activities :

• Works closely with Finance Director Managing Director and Leadership Team on short and long-term direction of the local organization by providing decision support and collaborating in the management of the subsidiary.
• Manages and coordinates all market planning and reporting activities and cooperates with regional Business Support Center in Prague as needed to complete tasks.
• Manages and submits forecasts and associated supporting documents and ensures guidance and timelines are followed.
• Manages budget and strategic planning efforts generates and delivers content for local market reviews.
• Manages and leads a high performing group of Local FP&A.
• Actively explore new ways of working within his / her Team in collaboration with other areas that can drive value for our customers focusing on Business Support / analytics.
• Pursue automated solutions that can speed execution time by reducing manual efforts for the FP&A Team.
• Collaborates on financial presentations to local and regional leadership to inform on the financial state of the business.
• Manages monthly actual reporting dashboards and KPI measurements.
• Manages execution against financial targets and communicates in a timely manner in case of necessary corrective actions.
• Financial Evaluation of Business Cases and ad hoc financial analysis based on business needs.
• Proposes action plans and strategies to optimize local P&L : challenges status quo constantly searches for opportunities.
• Supports monthly close procedures in strong collaboration with Controller Accounting Lead managing monthly Sales and Expenses accruals.
• Oversees local eIIMS process and local demand forecasting process.
• Takes the responsibility for forecasting accuracy of local subsidiary.

Skills and Experience required :

Fast learning curve

Ability to self-train in any innovative solution to meet the financial needs of the next generation.

Ability to build innovative reports (PowerBI Dataiku).

Ability to drive automation significantly daily and monthly routines.

Ability to interact negotiate influence within a matrix organization at different levels of the company.

Complete understanding of why simplification or new innovative methods as well as forecast accuracy are important in the work.

Bachelors degree such as Business School Masters degree preferred. Minimum 10 years of experience in Controlling Successful team management experience required.

Ability to interact and negotiate at all levels of the company particularly with Senior Management inter-division and at the Corporate level.

Very good relationship skills.

Ability to have a strategic vision to interact and negotiate with external partners (Joint Ventures Business Development Auditors etc.).

Ability to manage the complexity of a matrix organization and to manage uncertainty and ambiguous situations.

Good oral and written communication.

Bilingual in English and French.

Good knowledge of French and US accounting rules.

LANGUAGES :

French and English

Required Skills :

Adaptability, Analytical Thinking, Business, Financial Planning, Change Management, Decision Making, Economic Research, Finance, Financial Acumen, Financial Evaluations, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Investments Analysis, People Leadership, Pharmaceutical Industry, Preparation of Financial Reports, Relationship Building, Strategic Business Advice

Preferred Skills :

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Employee Status :

Regular

Relocation :

VISA Sponsorship :

Travel Requirements :

Flexible Work Arrangements :

Hybrid

Shift :

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Job Posting End Date :

12 / 8 / 2025

A job posting is effective until 11 : 59 : 59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

Required Experience :

Director

Key Skills

Bidding, Customer Service, B2C, Account Management, Bus Driving, Fire And Safety Engineering

Employment Type :

Full-Time

Experience :

years

Vacancy :

1