Associate Director Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

The Animal Health GMTS COE Finance role is responsible for supporting key financial planning, forecasting, management reporting and consolidation activities for the Global Marketing & Operations & Technology Solutions organizations. The role coordinates FP&A and controllership deliverables across multiple teams and regions, providing financial analysis and insights to support effective business decision-making.

Monthly Actuals:

• Coordinate the consolidation, analysis and reporting of total GMTS organizational spend across Atlas and non-Atlas entities, providing meaningful management reporting and variance analysis.
• Prepare monthly financial insights and key business drivers to support GMTS leadership reporting.
• Support monthly close activities, partnering across the team to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
• Coordinate controllership activities for GMTS non-Atlas entities, including financial reporting, validation and resolution of accounting issues.
• Partner with local finance teams to ensure accurate and timely reporting for non-Atlas entities.
• Support compliance with internal controls and financial policies for non-Atlas entities, including monitoring and resolution of open audit items.

Forecast and Budgeting cycles:

• Coordinate planning and forecasting activities across the GMTS organization.
• Manage planning calendars, templates, system submissions and key deliverables.
• Coordinate forecast submissions across teams, ensuring completeness, consistency and clarity.
• Consolidate forecast materials and perform variance, trend and driver analysis, highlighting key risks and opportunities.
• Prepare financial analyses, presentations and key messages to support leadership reviews and decision-making.
• Recommend and implement improvements to forecasting processes and planning tools.

Tools, systems and advanced business analytics:

• Partner with Animal Health COE Finance and other stakeholders to support accurate financial reporting and analysis.
• Develop and enhance reporting and analytics to improve financial insights and business decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve reporting capabilities and increase team efficiencies through available systems and digital tools.
• Participate in special projects and cross-functional finance initiatives as needed.

Minimum/Preferred Education:

• Minimum B.A./B.S. Degree

Experience and skills required:

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in finance, accounting, or financial analysis or similar role. 
• Strong focus on accuracy, quality, organization, detail, innovation, and continuous improvement. 
• Highly motivated, with strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks while producing high-quality results in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with tight deadlines. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to develop, articulate, and build support around sound financial analytics.  
• Innovative and strategic thinker with effective problem-solving skills. 
• Customer focused and collaborative: The ability to work well in a team environment and foster professional relationships. 
• Proficient computer skills: Microsoft Office suite, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint. 
• Working knowledge of our company's accounting, financial reporting and planning systems and processes. 
• Experience with financial systems and tools SAP, FSA, and BPC BRIDGES, Thinkcell.

Experience and skills preferred, if applicable:

• M.B.A. and/or C.P.A.   
• Familiarity with internal planning and reporting processes and systems.

Required Skills:

Accounting, Accounting, Adaptability, Animal Health Care, Business Analysis, Calendar Management, Cash Management, Corporate Decision Making, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Cross-Cultural Awareness, Data Visualization, Decision Management, Detail-Oriented, Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Financial Statement Analysis, Forecasting Models, Forecast Pro, Global Marketing Strategy, Headcount Planning, Leadership, Leadership Assessments, Leadership Reporting {+ 8 more}

Preferred Skills:

Current Employees apply HERE

Current Contingent Workers apply HERE

US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.

As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.  As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.  For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:

EEOC Know Your Rights

EEOC GINA Supplement​

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

Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts

The primary location for this posting is:

USA - New Jersey - Rahway

Where required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below.

The salary range for the primary location of this role is:

$129,000.00 - $203,100.00

This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

Additional location(s): Please note the salary range above applies to the Primary Location of the position. Where a role has other listed locations, different compensation guidelines may apply. You may find the salary ranges for additional locations below. If the salary range is not listed for the location you are applying to, our Talent Acquisition team will provide further information to you relevant to your location.

Additional location(s) Compensation Information:

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully 
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company.  No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. 

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

11/6/2026

*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.