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This role provides financial decision support on a wide scope of operational and strategic matters across Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay, being responsible for planning, controlling, and steering the business to meet its financial objectives.

This position will be a key member of the Local Leadership and Regional Controlling teams and will collaborate closely with local, regional, and global stakeholders, leading cross-functionally to ensure profitable and sustained financial growth. This position will support the Healthcare business in the South Cone region, with ~90 FTES and ~110 mEUR in sales per year.

**Your Role**:





- Support the Managing Director in their delivery of business results by having a deep understanding of strategy and anticipating the needs of both operations and management.
- Drive P&L; management with a focus on accurate Sales/OPEX forecasting, monitoring, and strict control.
- Run the Planning and Forecasting processes in coordination with key stakeholders to deliver consistent, ambitious, and reliable plans.
- Maintain a Business Performance tracking framework including Key KPIs and core financial reports such as P&L; and NWC.
- Prepare monthly management reports together with qualitative performance insights, collaborating with the business.
- Provide forward-looking and ad-hoc financial analysis to address risks and opportunities. Present the findings and insights to the relevant stakeholders adequately.
- Contribute to Business Reviews, being responsible for building, presenting, and defending figures to the Regional and Global teams.
- Provide financial information to assist the leadership team in resource allocations and meeting business objectives and financial targets.
- Support major finance and regional/global business projects and initiatives through investment appraisals, and modeling scenario planning.
- Participate in the assessments of expanding Healthcare portfolio in the markets under his responsibility, by leading and recommending from a financial point of view new launches feasibility.




- Build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders and their teams to actively influence day-to-day decisions, shaping strategy and the direction of the business, with a problem-solving mindset. Be able to challenge and coach.
- Lead and manage all aspects of people processes - organization, staffing, talent management, and performance management to meet objectives.
- Lead and develop further an environment of strong team spirit, timely and effective communications, a sense of urgency, high motivation and inspire teams to achieve goals in the immediate and longer term. This role leads a team of 1 analyst and reports to the Regional Controlling Director (based in the USA).

**Who you are**:

- You have a University Degree in Finance or Economics (MBA or other relevant postgraduate qualification).
- You have 10+ years of professional experience working in a Finance environment along with a strong and proven Business Partnership experience.
- Outstanding financial analysis skills. Strong business acumen and judgment, and current knowledge of company markets/products and pharma industry trends in a highly challenging macroeconomic environment.
- Excellent strategic thinking, outstanding business analysis, and reporting skills that generate business insights that add measurable value.
- You have excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate complex controlling topics and to contribute to discussions and decision-making at various levels of the organization.
- You are experienced in people management. You have the experience to motivate your team by embracing and demonstrating our Leadership Behavior each day and acting as a role model in leadership.
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and challenging macroeconomic environment.
- Skilled in Excel, Power Point, TM1

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📌 Controlling Manager South Cone Latam (Buenos Aires)
🏢 Merck
📍 Buenos Aires