Transcend: Project Financial Controller

**Job Function**:
Project/Program Management Group

**Job Sub**Function**:
Project/Program Management

**Job Category**:
People Leader

**All Job Posting Locations**:
Allschwil, Basel-Country, Switzerland, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Zug, Switzerland

**About Innovative Medicine**

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

We are searching for the best talent for a Transcend: Project Financial Controller to join our Team This is an onsite/hybrid role.

Titusville, NJ United States - Requisition Number**:R-022067**

Belgium and Ireland - Requisition Number**:R-021744**

Switzerland - Requisition Number**:R-021754**

Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational transactional processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform for growth and efficiency gains.

This program will simplify the Pharmaceutical ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes to have a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Pharmaceutical business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.

As a part of the Global PMO team, the Project Controller will support the Global PMO to enhance budget control in a complex, multiyear transformation program with established governance processes.

You will report to the Global PMO and be responsible for Controlling the program budget. You will achieve this by collaborating with Global Finance and Budget Owners in functional teams. Your role will involve identifying opportunities for process improvements, preparing detailed, evidence-based budget status reports for the executive and senior leadership, and owning the budget control for the program. Your ability to manage day-to-day operational aspects of projects will be crucial in this role.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support the Global PMO to manage and control the program budget, prepare evidence-based, executive-level reports and dashboards in Power BI or equivalent
- Identify opportunities for budget control and process improvements within the Global PMO and between the PMO, Global Finance, and functions
- Prepare and present project status reports, updates, and performance metrics to senior management
- Ensure cross-functional adherence to PMO governance, frameworks, and controls, including RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) logs, critical path tracking, and achievement management aligned with the wider program
- Coordinate the successful delivery of cross-functional teams through collaboration, structured resource and budget planning, initiative-taking dependency management, and disciplined execution oversight
- Effectively engage with and influence cross-functional teams to ensure integration of program activities and resource planning
- Support forward-looking scenario planning to address emerging risks and budget variations
- Monitor program budget progress and adjust plans and enhance processes as necessary to meet objectives

**Qualifications**:
**Education**:

- Minimum of a Bachelor's/University or equivalent degree is required

**Experience and Skills**:
**Required**:

- Minimum 6 years of experience controlling budgets in large-scale transformation programs, preferred in a highly regulated environment
- Strong collaborator engagement skills with a proven record of being able to deliver via influence
- Advanced proficiency in project portfolio tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA) and executive reporting tools (e.g., PowerPoint, Power BI)
- Proven experience in program and change management from a finance perspective
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and ability to effectively manage in a matrix environment
- Demonstrated success in delivering internal control implementation programmes or finance transformation initiatives
- Experience working with or within Internal Audit, Finance, Risk & Compliance teams is highly advantageous
- Proficiency in project management and business analysis techniques

**Preferred**:

- Demonstrated ability to use dashboards and PowerBI to interrogate data and provide meaningful reports to track and explain deviations in planned versus actual budget
- Recognized project/programme management qualification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, MSP)
- Finance qualification, MBS or equivalent
- Strong knowledge of the global MedTech industry
- Experience with process improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma

**Other**:

- Requires up to 10% domestic and/or international travel
- Requires the ability, through our flexible work policy, to work on-site a minimum