Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

The Finance Analyst will provide financial planning, analysis, and reporting support for the Research & Development (R&D) and Scientific Affairs functions. This role is responsible for ensuring accurate budgeting, forecasting, and cost management to enable strategic decision-making and operational efficiency within these visible and critical business areas

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Finance Analyst role will make an impact:

• Gather data from various sources, help understand and analyze the data to generate desired information on complex analytics.
• Assist to, maintain, build, and analyse budget and forecast models for expenditure increases/decreases. Understand data analytics requirements with respect to inputs/process/outputs
• General financial accounting such as journal postings, balance sheet reconciliations, capex management, accruals, and provisions
• Coordinate the general ledger month end activities and reconciliation to reporting systems
• Prepare financial reports with reliable conclusions that management can use to implement more effective operational strategies
• Submit financial reporting in line with Regional and Corporate requirements.
• Hands-on in the processes to gather and consolidate financial and non-financial information including FTE related data and provide other, line-specific analysis and support as required
• Support the R&D Verticals and R&D Lead with analysis and interpretation of business performance, analytics, and analysis to help the Function Leads and LT understand the drivers of P&L performance, defining implications to the business and suggested actions.
• Ensure accuracy of the information generated based on the assumptions made on all data analytics, and circulate the information generated to the desired audience and participate in reviews.
• Compile and analyse financial data and provide insightful commentary on variances and discrepancies that require senior management’s attention

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Qualified, studying, or considering studying towards an accountancy qualification or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, with finance, accounting, or related experience preferred.
• Previous experience in Reporting & Planning, Business Partnering, and providing finance support to multiple client groups is required.
• Strong analytical thinking with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, with experience using other Microsoft Office packages, particularly PowerPoint and Word.
• Comfortable working with large datasets.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage time effectively and meet tight deadlines.
• Able to prioritise and manage multiple simultaneous deliverables.
• Knowledge and experience of Hyperion would be a plus.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

What we offer:

• Top Employer Accreditation, demonstrating that we provide excellent people policies and practices
• Competitive compensation package inclusive of annual discretionary bonus
• Focus on career progression with growth and development opportunities
• Hybrid work model
• Emphasis on Health and Wellness programmes
• 100% paid medical insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
• Life cover
• Excellent employer-matched pension scheme with Viatris contributing up to 11%
• 2 paid volunteer days per year

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.