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.
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Your role: Management Accountant
To prepare, analyse and interpret information to facilitate the most efficient and effective and accurate running of a manufacturing site.
Manage the company accounts, ensuring the control of company assets and compliance with corporate, local and fiscal requirements.
Develop and analyse strategic business/financial options. Recommend the best business option and gain approval for implementation from local and corporate management.
Functions, Duties, Tasks
- To be responsible for preparing the site’s financial accounts and to ensure that they present a ‘true and fair’ view of the company’s position. Complete financial close on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis to tight timescales
- As part of the monthly financial pack, provide commentary on manufacturing variances eg Use/Yield, Losses and Price Variance
- Lead the Inventory Slow Moving Processes, provide files for review, attend meeting and post a journal for movement in provision.
- Play a key role in the business planning processes, developing site goals, and objectives and ensuring focus on critical issues. This ranges from the strategic review to the more detailed 12 month plan and incorporates; demand requirements, comparisons with current and future capabilities, headcount, capital and expense requirements etc.
- Product costing – each year the standard costs are updated as part of the business planning process. This role is responsible for preparing data ready to load into SAP and successfully completing all steps in SAP to ensure costing is loaded accurately and in line with company policy
- Take a key role in determining the most profitable way to produce the company’s products. This involves ‘what-if’ analyses, with regard to alternate raw materials, equipment, cycle times and staffing, benchmarking against other sites and external manufacturers.
- Ensure all SOX controls are completed in a timely manner. This can range from Monthly to yearly.
- Work with the Engineering Team to ensure that capital spend is reported accurately and funding requested in line with company policy
- Ensure financial audits are performed in a timely manner.
- Coach and train non-financial staff on financial matters.
Minimum Qualification (education, experience and/or training, required certifications):
- Degree qualified with either financial experience or financial qualification
- Experience of working in manufacturing accounting
- Experience of product costing on a site with many different SKUs
- SAP experience preferable
- Experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry or other similar regulated environment preferable
- Experience of working in a global company preferable
Additional Preferences:
- Experience of working in a global company preferable
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrepresented 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!
Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and 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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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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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
