Head of Finance Lonza Ag

vor 8 Stunden

Basel, Schweiz Lonza Vollzeit

Switzerland, BaselToday, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. 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.

This is a unique opportunity for a senior finance professional to join the Lonza Finance team and drive with us the finance transformation. This role will be part of the Global Business Services (GBS) leadership team. The GBS team vision is to provide superior customer experience through process excellence and insights generation for the business. In this role you can excel your leadership, navigating in an exciting and complex organization at all levels.

As the Head of Finance Lonza AG* you are responsible for the complete financial management of the two most important & complex operational companies in the Lonza Group. The accountabilities include the monitoring of the financial health of the entity, financial risk management, internal and external reporting, ensuring successful internal and external audits and external stakeholder management.

On top you will be the Global Process Owner (GPO) for the Finance Legal Entity Responsible (FLER) set-up, including hosting the Corporate Customer Board.
- The Head of Finance Lonza AG & Lonza Sales AG; GPO FLER

Key responsibilities:

- Monitoring of the financial health of the legal entities and ensuring compliance with legal regulations
- Managing the financial risks of the entity, ensuring financial compliance and that internal controls are in place, enforced and periodically reviewed. This includes ensuring Segregation of Duties
- Regularly review of the financial accounts for the entities prepared by the Shared Service Center in the Global Business Organization. Ultimate accountability for the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the legal entity's internal and external reporting.
- Ensuring successful external audits: Management representative for the external auditors. Ensuring systematic root cause analysis for audit misstatements is performed and mitigating actions are defined and completed. Ensure control weakness are getting addressed.
- Ensuring successful internal audits: Management representative for the internal auditors. Ensuring systematic root cause analysis and implementation of mitigating actions for audit observations and recommendations in the finance area.
- Management point of contact for external stakeholders (banks, authorities, insurance companies etc.)
- Works closely with the internal stakeholders to gain a complete understanding how the business activities are reflected in the financials.
- Works with Corporate Treasury for all treasury and financing matters related to the legal entity.
- Works with Corporate Tax for all tax matters related to the legal entity.
- Closely works with the GBS Organization to ensure all process provided by GBS in the financial area are effective and efficient.
- Acts as the Global Process Owner for the financial legal entity management and defines the standard together with the other finance legal entity responsible worldwide.
- Hosts the corporate customer board

Key requirements:

- Masters in Economics & Business Administration, specializing in accounting, auditing and taxation
- Fluency in German and English is required
- Qualified Accountant, CPA or equivalent qualification
- Advanced level of experience within Finance is required

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.

**Reference: R50318**:

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