Finance Lead Animal Health Unit M/F/D

Job Description

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.

The Finance Lead for the Belgian Market Animal Health (AH) will be a strategic business partner and strong finance professional to ensure a controlled environment in the Market and be part of the Benelux team with an overall current business of over $70 mio (Benelux: 190 Mio USD)

The Finance Lead will play a critical role in partnering with the Belgian leadership team in strategic decision making for Business and Finance operations, financial planning, and other areas.

Finally, the person in this role will be responsible for overlooking financial controlling and compliance aspects in the organization acting as a control/contact point for these matters. This also includes establishing policies and procedures to ensure full compliance with our requirements.

Finance Lead Animal Health Unit M/F/D

Responsibilities:

• Be the sparring partner of the Belgium Business Lead

• Lead the financial planning processes by providing timely and high-quality analysis and data analytics to commercial leads and challenging the input from the area business leaders and recommend timely corrective actions

• Manage and provide recommendations to improve the P&L and Working Capital in the country

• Provide the necessary support to ensure that regional and local teams achieve their goals

• Provide value-added contribution to the Benelux Cluster in support of strategic business initiatives and financial performance improvement

• Provide strategic and operational business support

• Proactively manage the Risks and Opportunities

• Proactively manage gross to net sales drivers as key focus area for the Belgian organization and manage the ongoing recording, reporting & visibility of these drivers

• Liaise with Tax, Controllers team and Business to ensure local VAT compliance Be a key point of contact for external and internal auditors for local legal entity in relation to local AH Business operations

• Work in collaboration with other departments/divisions

• Active involvement in pricing strategies and policy

• Ensures system and financial controls are in place and determines the operation’s consistency with company objectives and standards

• Provide recommendations to improve Business efficiency measures through the optimization of resource allocation and P&L management

• Ensure requests, reports and presentations are submitted timely with high-quality comments

• Continuously challenge the status quo and provide innovative solutions for efficiencies to streamline processes

• Ensure that new/existing Policies & Procedures, Internal Controls are adapted to local and business requirements and in line with our company standards

• Ensure efficient collaboration and process alignment with the BSC and CoE

• Participate in and lead cross-functional projects at different levels of the company

• Ensure financial statements fully comply with US-GAAP and local GAAP

Qualifications:

• Relevant university degree and other financial qualifications

• Finance Professional experience of around 7 years

• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage

• Strong knowledge of SAP, BPC, Nexcast and MS Office applications

Skills/Capabilities:

• Strong leadership skills to guide and collaborate with business partners

• Capacity to resist pressure and work under tight timelines

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills: easy to get along with, optimist, proactive and self-driven

• Capacity to solve complex situations

• Strong compliance mindset and experience

• Ability to clearly communicate in Dutch, French and English, both orally and written

• Business acumen (e.g. knowledgeable in policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting our Company business)

• Capacity to negotiate at all levels of the company and particularly Senior Management

• Strong business understanding and strategic thinking / seeing the bigger picture

• Good knowledge of US GAAP / IFRS

Required Skills:

Achieving Objectives, Business Acumen, Business Decisions, Commercial Banking Relationship Management, Economic Research, Economic Studies, Financial Advising, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Statements, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), People Leadership, Planning Budgeting And Forecasting (PBF), Preparation of Financial Reports, Pricing Administration, Pricing Strategies, Process Streamlining, Professional Guidance, Profit and Loss (P&L) Analysis, Resource Allocation, Strategic Thinking, Tax Compliance, Trend Analysis

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Not Applicable

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Job Posting End Date:

06/20/2026

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