Financial Planning & Performance

About the job

Our Department:

The direction GBS = Global Business Services in CHC Finance Direction provides Global services to the whole BU : Finance, Human Resources, Project management.

The department CFFS = Central Finance Flows and Solutions in GBS stands to facilitate all central finance operations involving the French companies notably entrepreneur (Opella Healthcare Group) and manufacturing & worldwide distribution one (Opella Healthcare International).

Our Team:

You will join the team IFSA = Intercompany Financial Solutions & Analytics : this is a global organizational unit covering:

• the definition and management of Intercompany financial and operational framework over the world ;
• the realization of those intercompany transactions ;
• the contribution to projects (acquisition, divestment, organizational changes, product launches…)
• the production of related analytics & deliverables.

This team is also from international culture (~10 different nationalities) and has currently 15 team members.

Main responsibilities:

Stakeholders Management:

• Maintain a strong link between Opella's main cross functional and cross boarder stakeholders, especially A2R, Tax and IFSA teams
• Empower local stakeholders on models (Royalties, Central Costs, R&D-innovation costs…) knowledge

End to end management of worldwide interco royalties paid within the Group and the follow-up of models with Tax/TP Stakeholders :

• Maintain referent data : Intellectual Property Owner (“IPO” legal entity), royalty rates, agreements/contracts
• Ensure quarterly communication with all stakeholders including commitment on referent data and reminders on global rules and model
• Provide quarterly (+ True-Up) calculation, booking instructions processing for direct approval from stakeholders, systems posting integration checks

End to end management of worldwide central costs model :CHC central for global & regional / R&D costs reinvoicing :

• Maintain & run the central costs mechanisms for quarterly (+ True-Up) calculation and bookings in the appropriate tools
• Drive / implement the model evolutions/continuous improvement
• Support internal and external audit
• Global and Local Service Agreements from non-CHC affiliate
• Maintain & run the GSA-LSA invoicing mechanisms for monthly (+ True-Up) calculation and bookings in the appropriate tools till move to TSA in 2025.
• Support internal and external audit

Participate to Projects:

• Coordinate the IFSA continuous improvement initiatives
• Contribute to projects impacting the Central Costs / Royalties / R&D-innovation model (Acquisition, Divestment, license, Business development etc.),
• Contribute to organizational programs and projects such as PLATINUM to ensure Tax and Transfer Prices impacts

About you

• Experience: Strong Accounting and Controlling background with experience in business and financial analysis
• Soft skills:
  • Business Partner Mindset, service oriented
  • Ability to transversally interact with stakeholders across all levels and in an international environment
  • Proactive, self-driven and able to work in an autonomous environment
• Technical skills:
  • Operational Expenses management
  • Priority management to be able to reach deadlines
  • Excellent use of Excel, Power BI, IBM Cognos TM1
  • Good knowledge of SAP CO & FI modules.
  • Main professional relationships: Ensure strong and efficient transversal relationships with other stakeholders, mainly:
    • Tax and TP Corporate, regional or country tax managers
    • IFSA team
    • GBS, SBS Accounting, mainly Interco and A2R
    • Finance teams (Corporate, GBUs, IA, Alliance, R&D)
    • Treasury
• Languages: Fluent in English. French is a plus.

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