The Opportunity
This position works out of our Wiesbaden location - Abbott GmbH for Abbott's Diabetes Care business. We’refocused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provideaccuratedata to drive better-informed decisions.We’rerevolutionizing the way peoplemonitortheir glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
Your Responsibilities:
1. Monitor all aspects of the Order-To-Cash process of ADC Germany webshop, ensure all orders are processed and invoiced timely
2. Drive improvements to the cash collection process, to increase visibility, speed, and accuracy of collection
3. Act as a enabler for ADC Germany´s finance organization between technical reimbursement and cash collection process
4. Own the reconciliation process between internal general ledger and external sub-ledger
5. Escalate timely challenges to Senior Management
6. Ensure appropriate booking of bad debt reserve and sales allowances in anticipation of the cash collection risks incl. root cause analysis and derivation of improvement scenarios
7. Prepare the quarterly/annual Balance Sheet forecast with a high level of forecast accuracy through anticipation of challenges.
8. Balance Sheet reporting: ensure a clear and concise monthly reporting of actual vs benchmark
9. Act as financial business partner in meetings with Statutory Health Institutions
10. Drive the financial troubleshooting within daily operations
11. Provide ad-hoc business and project support related to all order-to-cash relevant topics
12. Review and approve all rebates agreements and actual disbursements
13. Coordinate internal & external audits and SOX requests
Qualifications:
14. Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Finance
15. Minimum 5 years of experience in finance consulting or business controlling
16. Knowledge of financial and accounting processes within a large corporation, multinational environment and heterogenous in- and external stakeholders
17. Experience in set up and steering of meetings with involved parties with hands on focus to ‘get the job done’
18. Flexibility on changing initial solution approach path in order to solve a problem (to think out of the box) and develop new processes and solutions
19. Capabilities to challenge data sets provided internally and by vendors and their implications on ADC Germany´s financial development
20. Make use of analytical skills to question the status quo and derive sound decision proposals
21. Experience and confidence to communicate and present to senior management as well as to vendors involved in the reimbursement and cash collection process
22. Fluent in German and English
23. Leadership & analytical skills
24. Self-Starter with problem solving skills and ability to meet deadlines by managing in- and external data sources incl. vendor management