Today Lonza is a global leader in life sciences. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

Lonza’s Capsules & Health Ingredients business is the trusted partner for innovative products, including capsules and health ingredients, customization services and end-to-end dosage form solutions for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies.

Colmar, France | Lonza is currently looking for a Commercial Finance Manager for EMEA, who is the finance business partner to the Sales and BU teams to ensure financial compliance, support commercial activities in the region and support day to day finance operations.

Key responsibilities:

• Takes a supporting role in the region and in Finance, to help deliver on business objectives and strategies.

• Organizes and drive along with RBU Finance the relevant planning and analysis processes such as long term planning (BSR), annual budget, outlooks and forecasts for the region (commercial)

• Manage monthly closing and reporting, such as:

• Monthly reporting

• Monthly Pricing/Sales Performance (Price, Volume & Mix, FX), Sales and margins review, review of sales adjustments (rebates, etc.)

• Co-ordinate regional cost control for Sales and Business Development

• AR review

• Responsible for monitoring and tracking the rebates accruals vs expectation in collaboration with the sales teams

• Drives the monthly risks and opportunities process in collaboration with the Sales teams

• Collaborates with the Sub Regions and be key stakeholder in the S& OP process (validate volumes and prices with sales, monitor inventory levels and customer payment behavior).

• Provide recommendations for customer pricing & credit limits, involvement in regional pricing strategy and manage the approval process with global stakeholders.

• Shares global responsibility for CHI financial and management accounting in accordance with IFRS, the Lonza Finance Accounting Manual (FAM) and other required accounting principles.

• Perform other duties as assigned by RBU Finance head.

Key requirements:

• Bachelor degree / Professional Finance Qualification

• Advanced knowledge in Excel

• Knowledge in SAP is a nice to have

• Fluent in English and knowledge in French is a nice to have

• Advanced experience in finance and in product based business

• The person will be based in Colmar and will have to go 3 to 5 times per month to the site of Basel.

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.