Senior Specialist GWES Finance

MSD • Rahway, NJ

19d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Specialist, FP&A for Global Workplace and Enterprise Services (GWES) supports financial consolidations, management reporting, and strategic initiative tracking, with a strong focus on digitalization, AI, and automation to improve efficiency and insight quality. They will assist with monthly/quarterly close and consolidation, produce executive-ready reporting, and partner with GWES Finance, Operations, and Global Real Estate to track and analyze enterprise-level initiatives. Working cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, Real Estate, and GWES Business Operations, ensures data integrity, timely reporting, and decision-focused analysis, while modernizing processes through intelligent automation and data-driven tools. This position reports to the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis supporting GWES Corporate &Technical, Operations (CTO).

Requirements

• Education: Degree or Certificate in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or similar.
• Minimum of two years of work experience in finance, accounting, financial analysis, or similar role.
• In depth knowledge of SAP, Bridges, Power BI and Appian.
• Experience building AI-enabled automations
• Demonstrated track record delivering measurable impact through automation
• Strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail.
• Self-Starter
• Flexibility to adapt to changing business support needs.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Capital BPC and Qlik Sense.

Responsibilities

• GWES planning and reporting: support the Long-Range Operating Plan, quarterly forecasts, and monthly reporting at the GWES level, including resource management and IFM vendor reporting.
• Close activities: journal and intercompany entries, review actuals, deliver variance commentary, analyze spend trends, and recommend corrective actions.
• Build decision-ready analytics: develop visual dashboards that surface performance drivers, risks, and opportunities to help meet financial targets.
• Partner with Global Real Estate: Lead, coordinate, analyze, and support business cases in support of global real estate transactions. Report on real estate driven initiatives to ensure accurate monitoring and transparency.
• Reporting & Tracking: support the tracking, consolidation, and reporting of GWES Transformation initiatives
• Manage assets: oversee asset counts and process asset changes in Appian.
• Advance digitalization: lead/assist projects in automation, AI-driven analytics, and continuous process improvement.
• Deliver on ad hoc needs: create analyses, processes, and tools to support change initiatives and evolving business requirements.

Benefits

• The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.
• Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.
• More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits .

What This Job Offers

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