Director Finance

Director Finance

Location: Limoges, France

Position Summary:

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

Reporting to the Head of Finance BioProduct Delivery, this appointment is a key strategic partner role to the Site General Manager in setting and delivering the financial objectives of one of Strategic Catalent’s sites in Europe for Biologics business. Limoges site serves as the European Centre of Excellence for clinical biologics formulation development and drug product fill/finish of vials, syringes, and cartridges.

The Role:

• Create, drive, and implement the site strategic plan, setting financial milestones to set and deliver the annual budget. Develop and share financial insights that are easy for non-finance to grasp.

• Lead the monthly forecasting, working with leadership team and presenting to executive leadership.

• Set strong controls on base cost spending across the site & understand and educate performance drivers for site growth.

• Partner to track and realise the cost improvement targets through CI, TCE and Procurement & support global functions and contribute to process/system improvements and implementations.

• Lead the Limoges sites with the following relationships: Banking, Audit & statutory accounts, tax (direct and indirect).

• Internal compliance: Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Toll manufacturing Processes.

• Lead the Limoges team to deliver the internal three-day reporting deadline, ensuring adherence to the financial control framework, including first class supporting documentation, & focusing on working capital cycles to maximise free cash.

• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate:

• Expert knowledge in finance management concepts with a strong consultative but results-oriented approach within a manufacturing environment (Pharmaceutical industry experience preferred).

• Knowledge of SAP and/or OneStream an advantage.

• Demonstrable commercial delivery & knowledge of US GAAP revenue reporting are an advantage.

• Excellent negotiation and contracting skills. Ability to “get the job done” and take responsibility for results without direct authority. Ability to coordinate, facilitate, and organize resources.

• Analytical ability, both interpersonal and issue-related; good judgment and ethics; professional presence and demeanor; strong interpersonal skills; and political savvy.

Catalent offers enriching opportunities to advance your career Join the global leader in drug development and manufacturing and help us deliver over 7,000 products that save and improve the lives of patients worldwide. Catalent is an exciting and fast-growing international company where employees work directly with pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development through clinical trials and to market. Catalent produces over 70 billion doses annually, and each will be used by someone who relies on us. Join us to make a difference.

Personal initiative. Fast-paced environment. Meaningful work.

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Catalent is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on a protected characteristic under local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for part or all of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email and confirming your request for accommodation and including the job number, title, and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals needing accommodation due to a disability. The information received will be processed by a Catalent employee in the United States and then forwarded to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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