Corporate Finance Process Director (REMOTE)
Wilmington, MA, US, 01887 US
For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Overview
Provide strategic leadership for global finance business processes driving transformation through technology, ERP systems, and process standardization. Serve as the primary expert and business partner for Finance in defining, implementing, and optimizing global financial processes, systems, and initiatives.
Lead the development and execution of a global finance business process strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, integration of acquisitions, ERP implementations, and continuous improvement initiatives. Act as a key liaison between Finance, IT, business operations, shared services, Genpact and executive leadership to enable scalable, efficient, and compliant financial operations.
- Position will work remote from home office located in the US.
- This position requires domestic and international travel.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop and implement a strategic vision for a global finance business process team to support Global Finance and the business, including but not limited to: integrating acquisitions into all financial systems, supporting the future roll outs of the ERP system to legacy non ERP sites and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee the operations of the finance business process group, drive process improvement initiatives, and foster a customer service culture, including the development of tools and methods for project deliverables and reporting on KPIs.
• Gather requirements to define and own the roadmap for finance ERP enhancements and roll-outs of ERP to legacy businesses. Create a pipeline of continuous improvement opportunities to enhance efficiencies for business process and ERP utilization.
• Facilitate documentation of all business process work streams (O2C, P2P & R2R), partnering with the business, Procurement and Shared Service Centers (SSC) to create the network of SMEs who will actively participate in projects and create business process documentation working with the Business Process Analysts.
• Evaluate potential tools for process documentation repository.
• Develop a roadmap in collaboration with Corporate Finance, the Genpact team and SSCs’ for harmonization of process globally for O2C, P2P and R2R.
• Support the Genpact team to improve Shared Service process and systems.
• Collaborate with Master Data teams to ensure governance and data integrity in all finance systems.
• Partner with internal controls to ensure SOX compliance, control design, and monitoring across financial processes
• Provide leadership and development for the business process team. Establish & monitor departmental and individual goals and development plans.
• Oversee recruitment and develop a succession plan. Motivate & enable the team to achieve goals and objectives.
• Foster the spirit of communication, collaboration and continuous improvement within the organization leveraging new or existing business systems.
• Support due diligence and integration of acquisitions, including financial systems and process alignment.
• Conduct gap assessments and define integration roadmaps for newly acquired entities.
• Responsible for personnel management activities such as scheduling, personnel actions (hiring, promotions, transfers, etc.), orientation, training and development, providing regular direction and feedback on performance, disciplinary actions and preparing and delivering annual performance and salary reviews.
• Support the policy of equal employment opportunity through affirmative action in personnel actions.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Language: Fluency in writing and speaking in English
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance with a Master’s in Business Administration or advanced degree preferred
• Experience: 15-20 years of combined project management and Finance experience in a large or midsized multinational company. Broad and deep knowledge in finance business processes and technologies, including skills in SAP, and other financial consolidation systems, including global ERP implementations and business process architecture.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
• Other: Demonstrate a strong command of systems acumen with large ERP experience (SAP preferred). Track record of large transformation implementations. Strong customer service orientation with excellent oral and written skills. Excellent team building skills. Strong ability to collaborate, influents and build consensus.
• Travel: 10 – 25%
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, family status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
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