Senior Specialist

**Passion for Innovation. Compassion for Patients.**: With over 120 years of experience and approximately 19,000 employees in more than 30 countries/regions, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering new standards of care that enrich the quality of life around the world. In Europe, we focus on two areas: The goal of our Specialty Business is to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe, and help patients who suffer from it to enjoy every precious moment of life. In Oncology, we are driving innovation in solid tumours and blood cancers, founded on breakthrough science from our own labs in Japan. We aspire to create better tomorrows for people living with cancer and their loved ones. Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have affiliates in 15 European countries and Canada. **Exciting Opportunities at Daiichi Sankyo's European DS GloBuS**: Join us at the forefront of innovation at Daiichi Sankyo's newly established European & Canadian Service Center (GBS ESC) as part of the Daiichi Sankyo Global Business Services (DS GloBuS), strategically located in the dynamic cities of Munich and Lisbon. We are on the lookout for highly motivated, experienced and talented individuals to become part of our pioneering and fast-growing team. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a global enterprise, where your skills and expertise will drive excellence, efficiency and innovation across international operations. Embrace the challenge and be a part of a collaborative, forward-thinking environment, where your career can flourish and where you can shape the future of Daiichi Sankyo and contribute to our mission to improve healthcare worldwide. **Senior Specialist (M/F/x) Plan to Forecast (P2F) - Product Costing & Cost Controlling**: **Purpose of the function**: - Execute and partly oversee the operational activities of the regional End-to-end process "Plan to Forecast (P2F)", especially Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Product Costing and Cost Controlling services in the regional scope of Global Business Services - Support and partly coordinate month-end Closing process and planning process with regards to cost allocations and Product Costing - Support and partly coordinate building up and stabilizing the new organizational set-up of the GBS ESC and the new end-to-end (E2E) processes in the defined regional scope of the GBS ESC - Closely collaborate and partly coordinate within the service line teams and support other GBS ESC service line teams as aligned with the responsible line manager, help to ensure that all interfaces are fully covered **Roles and Responsibilities**: - Operate and partly coordinate all transactions and activities related to the P2F, Cost Controlling and Product Costing scope in GBS ESC - Execute delivery of operational P2F, Cost Controlling and Product Costing process activities - Execute and partly coordinate the month-end closing process with regards to cost allocation and Product Costing (especially calculation and reconciliation of overhead, WIP and yield variance including COPA and BSC adjustments, settlement of production/ process orders and analysis of production variances) - Execute the development and update and support the management of budgets, planning, analyses and periodic forecasting - Cost analysis & Cost Controlling: analyze and constantly monitor cost structures, cost types and cost centers, gather data and measures for accurate budgeting and cost management including charges; ensure adherence to budgetary, forecasting and transfer pricing guidelines etc. - Identify discrepancies in costs, proactively derive, align and implement measure to ensure an exhaustive, timely and fully compliant P2F, Controlling and Product Costing service process according to agreed activity splits - Ensure a robust validation and reconciliation of data as well as full accuracy, correctness and timeliness of all reports in the scope of the regional GBS - Execute and partly coordinate the operational planning process for standard COGS; review, verify and adjust standard COGS and Variance values in the planning tool during budget and forecast periods - Calculate, maintain and verify unit COGS data, loss free calculation and product costs for new materials and create, verify and maintain material master data - Collaborate and proactively communicate with all relevant stakeholder and ensure that issues and measures are well understood, managed and integrated into all business areas - Ensure data accuracy and leverage tools and data analytics tools where applicable in the regional scope of GBS - Perform fully compliant performance and documentation of relevant J-Sox controls and internal controls in the regional scope of work and be the responsible contact person for internal stakeholders - Contribute to continuous improvement of end-to-end process in scope of responsibility and in close cooperation with G