Finance Analyst

Job Description

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.

The Finance Analyst for the Israel Market will be a strong finance professional and act as a trusted business partner among commercial and finance colleagues to ensure a controlled environment in the Market and be part of the East Med cluster along with Greece and Cyprus.

The Finance Analyst will play a critical role in partnering with the local Finance Colleagues as well as the local commercial Team.  Reporting to the Cluster Finance Lead, he/she will be responsible for overlooking financial controlling and compliance aspects in the organization acting as a control/contact point for these matters. This also includes establishing and follow up of policies and procedures to ensure full compliance with our requirements. The successful candidate will gradually extend support to the rest markets of the cluster benefiting from valuable exposure and creating synergies and knowledge sharing.

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Responsibilities:

• Be the sparring partner of the Israeli Business Lead.

• Lead the financial planning process end to end by providing timely and high-quality analysis and data analytics to commercial leads and challenging the input from the area business leaders up to the final reporting.

• Monitor actual performance/forecast vs plan and recommend timely corrective actions

• Manage and provide recommendations to improve the P&L and Working Capital in the country on a day-to-day basis.

• Provide the necessary support to ensure that regional and local teams achieve their goals

• Provide value-added contribution to the East Med cluster in support of strategic business initiatives and financial performance improvement

• Support and implement division strategic and operational decision making

• Proactively manage the Risks and Opportunities.

• Active involvement in pricing and reimbursement strategies

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• Work in collaboration with other departments/divisions such as the local accounting team (shared service), Business Support Center (BSC), Center Of Excellence (CoE) & commercial operations.

• Ensure system and financial controls are in place and determine the operation’s consistency with company objectives and standards

• Ensure that new/existing Policies & Procedures, Internal Controls are adapted to local and business requirements and in line with our company standards

• Provide recommendations to improve Business efficiency measures through the optimization of resource allocation and P&L management

• Ensure requests, reports and presentations are submitted timely with high-quality comments

• Challenge the status quo and propose innovative solutions for efficiencies to streamline processes

• Participate in and lead cross-functional projects at different levels of the company

• Ensure financial statements fully comply with US-GAAP and local GAAP

Qualifications:

• Relevant university degree and other financial qualifications

• Solid and relevant finance experience of minimum 4 years

• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage

• Strong knowledge of Priority, SAP, BPC, Nexcast and MS Office applications

Skills/Capabilities:

• Strong interpersonal skills: inclusive, easy to get along with, optimist, passionate and above all team player.

• Strong communication skills

• Strong compliance mindset and experience

• Capacity to resist occasional pressure, deliver under tight timelines and resolve issues

• Capacity to create strong relationship ties

• Ability to clearly communicate in English, both orally and written

• Business acumen (e.g. knowledgeable in policies, practices, trends, technology and information affecting our Company business)

• Strong business understanding and strategic thinking / seeing the bigger picture

• Capacity to negotiate at various managerial levels of the company

• Good knowledge of US GAAP / IFRS

• Proactive and self-driven

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Required Skills:

Audits Compliance, Budgeting, Business Acumen, Capital Budgeting, Commercial Operations Management, Controls Management, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Data Analysis, Financial Analysis, Financial Controlling, Internal Control Procedures, Interpersonal Communication, Pharmaceutical Industry, Strategic Thinking, Variance Analysis

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

11/29/2026

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