Leadership Opportunity: Head of GBSO Finance for Swiss Commercial Entities
Lonza is a global leader in life sciences with operations across three continents. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together to devise ideas that help businesses improve people's lives.
We are seeking a senior finance professional to drive the finance transformation as part of our Global Business Services Organization (GBSO). This role will enable you to excel your leadership and navigate an exciting and complex organization at all levels.
Key Responsibilities:
* Financial Oversight and Reporting: Monitor the financial health, integrity, and compliance of Lonza AG and Lonza Sales AG, ensuring adherence to legal regulations.
* Financial Risk Management: Manage risks, ensure financial compliance, and implement internal controls.
* Review Financial Accounts: Regularly review accounts prepared by the Shared Service Center in GBSO, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of internal and external reporting.
* Audit Management: Ensure successful external audits, manage issue resolution, escalation, and reporting, and implement mitigating actions for audit misstatements.
* Internal Audit: Work with internal auditors to identify root cause analysis and implement mitigating actions for audit observations and recommendations.
* Business Understanding: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand how business activities reflect in financials.
* Treasury and Tax: Work with Corporate Treasury and Tax for all treasury and financing matters related to the legal entity.
* Process Improvement: Support ongoing process and internal control improvements and S/4HANA implementation project.
Requirements:
* SAP Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or equivalent.
* Fluent in German and English.
* Masters in Economics & Business Administration, specializing in accounting, auditing, and taxation.
* Advanced experience in Finance, including extensive financial accounting and reporting experience in a multinational environment.
* Leadership experience in teams across different locations.
* SAP competency an advantage.