Associate Director – Manufacturing Finance(m/w/x)

# Associate Director – Manufacturing Finance **Germany, Alzey** | **Full time** **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. * **Site Process Support** – Coordinate and serve as subject matter expert on one or more site processes, including, but not limited to, site metrics, capital management, inventory management, and/or Sarbanes-Oxley financial controls. Develop/coordinate local processes to gather, analyze, and report data as required by corporate or site management to ensure proper controls and compliance and provide data for decision-making or performance assessment. **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 is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. 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.