Director of Finance & Business Analytics

Virbac • Westlake, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Experiencing together a unique human adventure Animal health is key to the health of the planet. Working at Virbac means taking part in a unique human adventure in which the engagement of each individual contributes to its evolution. Encouraging internal mobility between positions and countries, offering individual development plans and building a partnership based on trust between managers and employees are as many perspectives of motivation for our teams. We also offer them a work environment conducive to exploring new territories and balancing their professional and personal lives. Finally, fostering their engagement to animal health also means listening to them and helping them to acquire new skills, preparing them for the challenges of tomorrow and encouraging them to contribute to an ever more responsible approach to our business. This role will lead and drive enhancements in Virbac’s enterprise forecasting and financial analytics capabilities, delivering true decision support in the commercial finance realm. You will convert data into crisp diagnostics and actions, teaming directly with Commercial, Industrial Operations, R&D, and IT leaders to translate financial metrics into dependable operational plans and executive-ready narratives. Leading by influence, you will build a modern, bottom-up forecasting engine; deliver clear, actionable insights (not just data); and restore robust governance (including system enhancement) across revenue and our commercial finance reporting. Serving often in a “deputy” capacity you will require significant influence and business acumen to drive change in and outside the Finance function. We are seeking a proven leader and systems enabler who can drive cross-functional collaboration and process excellence. This role will lead and drive enhancements in Virbac’s enterprise forecasting and financial analytics capabilities, delivering true decision support in the commercial finance realm. You will convert data into crisp diagnostics and actions, teaming directly with Commercial, Industrial Operations, R&D, and IT leaders to translate financial metrics into dependable operational plans and executive-ready narratives. Leading by influence, you will build a modern, bottom-up forecasting engine; deliver clear, actionable insights (not just data); and restore robust governance (including system enhancement) across revenue and our commercial finance reporting. Serving often in a “deputy” capacity you will require significant influence and business acumen to drive change in and outside the Finance function. We are seeking a proven leader and systems enabler who can drive cross-functional collaboration and process excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related; MBA/CPA preferred.
• 10+ years progressive financial leadership experience, including 5+ years leading teams
• Financial and Commercial systems expert, including BI/Analytics, Tableau, IBA data warehouse; Anaplan/Hyperion (or similar); demand planning exposure (e.g., Colibri), ERP systems (M3 or SAP) and Excel.
• Exceptional modeling skills; rigorous attention to detail and deadlines, customer-focused partner with impeccable ethics

Nice To Haves

• Pharmaceutical, Life Science or CPG experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Convert existing data into actionable financial plans within the commercial realm (price realization vs. list increases, SiT trends, key account signals, rebate drivers).
• Rebuild the end-to-end forecasting routine (annual, quarterly, monthly) for the full P&L, which produces accurate executive-ready reporting for monthly/quarterly packs.
• Provide resource allocation guidance to budget owners (cut-off discipline for services and A&P, under/overspend insights, headcount and payroll bridges including vacancies and open reqs).
• Serve as product owner for analytics: define KPI catalog, calculation standards, master data needs, and single-source-of-truth governance across the IBA data warehouse stand up scalable dashboards for revenue, margin, SiT, GTN, and opex; ensure lineage and reconciliation to ERP.
• Institutionalize price/volume/mix (ASP) modeling at brand/channel/account levels, including in-market vs. ex-factory bridges and stock-in-trade (SiT) effects.
• Reinstate core internal controls: planned/committed/forecast/spent tracking, ownership, and cadence with business partners, to include influence on management of inventory programs and other critical components.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees