Manager - Commercial Finance & FP&A

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

As a Commercial Finance FP&A Manager you will be looking for finance business partner to Commercial (Sales) and BU teams, ensuring financial compliance and support commercial activities in the region as well as support day-to-day finance operations

Key Responsibilities:

• Takes a supporting role in the region and in Finance, to help deliver on business objectives and strategies.

• Organizes and drive along with RBU Finance the relevant planning and analysis processes such as long-term planning (BSR), annual budget, outlooks and forecasts for the region (commercial)

• Manage monthly closing and reporting, such as:

  • Monthly reporting

  • Monthly Pricing/Sales Performance (Price, Volume & Mix, FX), Sales and margins review, review of sales adjustments (rebates, etc.)

  • Co-ordinate regional cost control for Sales and Business Development

  • AR review

• Analyses business performance, recommends benchmarks, highlights key opportunities and risks and works closely with commercial function in developing plans to capture opportunities and mitigate risks.

• Supports RBU Finance in all commercial financial planning & analysis for the region.

• Collaborates with the Sub Regions and be key stakeholder in the S&OP process (validate volumes and prices with sales, monitor inventory levels and customer payment behavior).

• Acts as business partner and plays an instrumental role in connecting dots between sales marketing and business development.

• Provide recommendations for customer pricing & credit limits, involvement in regional pricing strategy and manage the approval process with global stakeholders.

• Shares global responsibility for CHI financial and management accounting in accordance with IFRS, the Lonza Finance Accounting Manual (FAM) and other required accounting principles.

• Collaborates with Group Finance Management in ensuring state of the art financial systems and processes that maximize functional efficiency.

• Perform other duties as assigned by RBU Finance head.

Key Requirements:

• ~10 years’ experience post CA / MBA Finance / CMA in business finance partnering, finance planning & analysis, sales/commercial finance etc.

• Industry preferred: FMCG, Pharma, Auto

• Working experience in a fast pace international environment – strong advantage

• SAP experience is mandatory – FI, CO. Business warehouse (BW) is good to have.

• Advanced knowledge in Excel. Power BI exp is good to have.

• Fluency in both spoken and written English.

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.