At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!
As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.
At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.
Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!
Your Role: Associate Finance
As associate finance, you will be part of finance team to deliver support for tasks related to P2P, R2R, O2C area.
Your Responsibilities:
- P2P area - Ariba user support (vendor registration, change, creating PR), vendor support (Ariba invoice, registration), support for invoice handling, training for new users, others.
- ·O2C area - point of contact for invoices, managing customer e mail address, delivering a few customer invoices, creating monthly discount, others.
- R2R area - a few accounting entries, others.
- Concur – concur check and support, concur user training, others.
- Others – handling delivered mail, filing others.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Skills/Requirements: communication skills (customers, vendor, other departments), basic accounting knowledge, read/write English (Basic is fine) and Japanese (Business level), Excel basic skills.
- Experience: training for users, creating manuals for users, booking journals into accounting system (SAP etc.).
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):
- Proficiency in SAP or similar large-scale ERP systems.
- Proven experience in creating and maintaining process documentation or user manuals for finance systems.
- A strong customer-service mindset when dealing with vendor and internal stakeholder inquiries.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities across different finance streams (P2P, O2C, R2R) effectively.
- Experience working within a multinational corporate environment.
Additional Information:
- Travel: Not required
- Location: Japan
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrecognized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!
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Skills Required
- Basic accounting knowledge
- Read/write English
- Japanese business-level proficiency
- Basic Excel skills
- Training for users
- Creating manuals for users
- Experience in booking journals into accounting system
- Experience in SAP or similar ERP systems
Elanco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Elanco and has not been reviewed or approved by Elanco.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off options are broad, including PTO, flexible leave, and the ability to purchase additional vacation. These provisions are highlighted as supportive of work-life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision alongside company-paid life, disability, and wellness support. Pet insurance and assistance programs reinforce a comprehensive wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a U.S. 401(k) and, for some employees, access to a defined benefit pension. These programs add meaningful long-term value to total rewards.
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What We Do
At Elanco, we work to improve the health of animals through innovative products and services for pets and farm animals around the world. As a global animal health company, we provide solutions that empower our customers to advance a vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life. Since 1954, Elanco has committed to empowering veterinarians, farmers, and all those who care for animals with the tools they need to help animals live healthy lives. Healthier animals are the key to making our lives better - This is the fundamental belief uniting all global Elanco employees. That’s why we are committed to the idea that our business can be a unique force for good for all in society. Through our Elanco Healthy Purpose™ framework of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments, we focus on delivering sustainable solutions to advance the well-being of animals, people and the planet. This program also enables our employees around the world to take paid time off to make an impact as a volunteer, offering their time or talent to give back to our customers, causes and communities. #ElancoHealthyPurpose #WeAreElanco
