Finance Associate

Finance Associate - AH Australia

THE OPPORTUNITY
- Great opportunity to join a **global Animal Health** organisation
- ** Permanent Full-Time** role at Macquarie Park or Capalaba

This role supports Australia, part of the Australia and New Zealand cluster in the APSA Region for company Animal Health.

The primary purpose of the role is to work with FBP and support Business Unit in the area of customer onboarding, ongoing customer engagement, credit term set up and financial analytics.

A key success criteria, is to form partnership with business stakeholders in order to contribute value-add support in decision making and help achieve financial goals

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

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
- Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:_
- Contribute & support integration of Commercial Business, Systems and Processes
- Liaise with local finance, BSC and Customer Effectiveness Teams for customer onboarding, ongoing customer engagement and credit term management
- Prepare / liaise with BSC & local controller organization regarding subscription revenue recognition, balance sheet deferrals and monthly reconciliations
- Maintain adequate information & documentation to support any manual adjustments to revenue or customer receivables relating to subscription model
- Collaborate with Support Finance Officer New Zealand with similar tasks during peak season
- Customer centricity, proactively seek to understand customer requirements and expectations to continuously enhance the support provided to the business unit
- Support Finance Business Partner with periodical financial analysis
- Establish New Ways of Working through continuous review & improvement of processes, such as standardize & simplify, automate time-intensive manual steps
- Help to enforce financial controls within the organization, including assurance of financial integrity and accuracy around the monthly close process
- Any other tasks, projects or activities as may be required by Finance Business Partner Australia

**WHAT YOU MUST HAVE**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- At least 5 years experience as a Finance Officer
- Demonstrated capability working in a team environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive ‘get it done’ attitude
- Superior communication skills
- Excellent organisation skills
- Ability to interpret company policy into routine finance control procedures
- Advanced Excel, Word and Computer skills mandatory
- ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics GP would be an advantage)
- Solid AP/AR experience Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
- Customer Focus

Our Support Functions deliver services and makes recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the experience of working at our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

**Who we are **

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for **

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us — and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

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**Requisition ID**:R238834