Associate Director

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

**Key Responsibilities For Position**
- ** Business Partnering** - Active participation in flow lead teams, providing a financial perspective on business decisions of all types and education on financial principles and accounting policies. Measure operational performance and assess/implement improvement opportunities.
- ** Planning** - Development of expense plans, manufacturing throughput projections, product costs, and other site variances with business partners. Completion and submission of business plan templates. Accurate entry of plan information into site business systems.
- ** Forecasting** - Development of updated financial forecasts with business partners as necessary, recommending adjustments and analyzing changes to previous forecasts.
- ** Reporting** - Coordination of the month-end close process. Analysis of monthly manufacturing results. Reporting of results to both manufacturing and financial management. Coordination of the reporting process for site performance metrics.
- ** Controllership** - Ensure the proper development of product costs and the proper accounting treatment of manufacturing activities, including the correct statement of site expenses and throughput, product inventories, and site variances. Work with site engineering resources to develop the site capital plan and monitor site capital spending. Serve as local resource for capital spending and fixed asset policies and practices. Plan and forecast depreciation expense as new assets are capitalized.

**Requirements For Position**
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or an equivalent area.
- At least seven (7) years of finance/accounting experience, specifically planning, forecasting, and reporting activities** in a**manufacturing environment
- Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, prioritization, and analytical skills, with the ability to influence diverse groups
- Demonstrated learning agility and ability/willingness to adapt to continual change within a startup environment.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross functional environment as well as autonomously, and be action oriented
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SAP experience/knowledge.
- Fluent in English and German.
- Onsite attendance is expected.

**Additional Skills/ Preferences For Position**
- Master’s degree, MBA, CPA or equivalent
- Life science specific experience/knowledge.
- Cost accounting experience/knowledge.

**Other Information**
- The position is located onsite at the Alzey Site, Rhineland-Palatinate
- This role is an individual contributor role
- Periodic travel may be required to other sites (up to 10%).

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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