Senior Finance Manager

AstraZeneca • Frederick, MD

2d • Onsite

About The Position

At AstraZeneca, we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges with the utmost integrity. Our Frederick Manufacturing Center (FMC) is a biologics manufacturing site that makes a direct contribution to treating people with cancer, respiratory and autoimmune conditions across the globe. It’s challenging but highly rewarding work, involves more than 700 talented people throughout the manufacturing lifecycle and supporting office functions. We are dedicated to creating a culture of inclusion and collaboration, continuous learning, and offer ongoing skill building and training. The FMC is an award-winning employer, recognized as a ‘Top 50’ Business in Frederick and awarded Frederick County’s ‘Best Place to Work’ distinction in 2015 and 2019. As a Senior Finance Manager in Frederick, MD, you’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives. It offers one of the most exciting, fast paced, challenging, and rewarding work environments in the world of operations, supply chain and manufacturing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Economics, or any relevant field.
• 8+ years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Master or MBA

Responsibilities

• Reviews monthly financial results and variance analysis for the site manufacturing income statement in coordination with our center of excellence team
• Coordination in the compilation of a comprehensive monthly financial package
• Able to provide analysis on calculating accruals/reserves
• Provides guidance, insight and technical insight into the multi-year budgeting process
• Able to provide guidance, support and then effectively communicate to multiple parties the impact the cost changes in our annual product cost setting process
• Forecasting coordination with site leadership while making recommendations to support effective teams
• Compliance – assists in the development and review of internal controls on a monthly basis for financial compliance and testing by internal and external parties.
• Independently and timely performs non-recurring, one-off projects and other analysis as delegated by the site controller.
• Analysis of complex income statement transactions and balance sheet entries and reconciliations
• Reviews financial results monthly and provides variance analysis.
• Partners with an off-site accounting group to effectively manage month-end processes and multi-year budgeting scenarios.
• Works collectively with team to identify new processes and system improvement opportunities while working to resolve or escalates repetitive and/or complex discrepancies.
• Independently functions to analyze gaps / issues related to manufacturing variances.
• Partner with the site management to assess problems from multiple angles and develop recommendations.
• Communicates both basic and advanced financial information to senior leaders including potential impacts and actions.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement of 100% up to $10,000 each year
• Qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Paid leaves
• Health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage
• Short-term incentive bonus opportunity
• Equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles)
• Retirement contribution (hourly roles)
• Commission payment eligibility (sales roles)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior