Veeva Platform Financial Operations Lead
Merck•Rahway, NJ
1d•Hybrid
About The Position
Role Description The Financial Operations Lead translates platform spend into unit economics, ROI, and optimization opportunities. The role ensures disciplined investment governance and sustained value realization across the Veeva Platform. It provides enterprise-level cost transparency, financial governance, and value realization tracking for the Veeva platform. This position operates at the platform and process level, connecting cost, outcomes, and adoption across divisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics or similar)
- Minimum 7 years of experience in healthcare, biotech, IT, or the technology industry.
- Experience partnering with Procurement / vendor governance stakeholders and translating financial governance into practical operating mechanisms (Show back/chargeback recommendations, savings tracking).
- IT & platform FinOps
- Unit economics and TCO modeling
- Executive financial reporting
- Value realization tracking
- Procurement and vendor governance
- Accountability
- Acquisitions Divestitures
- Adaptability
- Analytical Tools
- Business Management
- Business Operations
- Communication
- Corporate Governance
- Cost Optimization
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Developing Proposals
- Environmental Scanning
- Financial Econometrics
- Financial Economics
- Financial Regulation
- FinTech API Platform
- Influencing Skills
- Managerial Economics
- Market Access
- Market Research
- Oncology Marketing
- Operations Management
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Product Governance
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree (MBA, MSc in Finance, Controlling or Strategy) preferred
Responsibilities
- Establish and manage platform unit economics and TCO baselines
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional leadership forums; comfortable driving transparency and cadence-based reporting.
- Lead cost optimization initiatives and optimization sprints
- Define showback and chargeback frameworks
- Streamline procurement processes and reduce change-order risk
- Define and track platform KPIs and OKRs
- Report value realization progress to senior leadership
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
