**Job Description**:Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.This role is responsible for executing financial planning, analysis and reporting activities from the Americas Business Service Center (BSC) to a specific set of markets, regions and divisions.**Primary responsibilities**:- Support the achievement of finance and business objectives by providing high quality FP&A support as defined in BSC scope of services to assigned divisional, regional & local finance clients- Work collaboratively with business and finance partners to provide planning and reporting services for assigned markets / divisions on monthly actual results and periodic forecasts.- Participate in certain budgeting and forecasting processes in collaboration with respective finance clients in markets and regions- Prepare ad-hoc reports & analysis using company financial reporting tools and enterprise systems- Enhance budgeting and forecasting processes through continuous improvement efforts while contributing to ongoing Merck/MSD efficiency and continuous improvement initiatives.- Maintain consistent and efficient processes to maintain and produce standardized FP&A services while ensuring compliance will all quality and control requirements and be accountable for accuracy on all defined KPIs and SLA's- Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures, with a high degree of integrity and personal ethics while supporting company mission, vision & values.**Education Minimum Required**:- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration or Accounting- Business Level fluency 90% (oral and written) in English language.**Experience Required**:- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Financial Planning and Analysis supporting financial planning and analyses, forecasting, and management reporting and analytics- Strong FP&A planning, analysis and reporting skills- Working proficiency of US GAAP**Experience **Preferred**:- Professional experience at an organization with operations across multiple countries- Experience with internal controls and process standardization preferred- FP&A support for Sales and Marketing organizations- Pharmaceutical industry experience- Migrations experience- CPA or MBA- Business Level fluency (oral and written) in Portuguese.**Technical and Soft Skills Requirements**:- Experience with Large ERP's and query tools, especially desirable would be experience with SAP, BPC, PBI- Intermediate to Advanced PC skills (MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint) required- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret corporate financial statements- Works effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, results oriented, with a sense of urgency, knowing how to prioritize.- Team player with a focus on collaboration, effective communication and interpersonal skills, and with ability to create rapport with stakeholders.- Strong organization skills to coordinate and manage multiple projects and activities- Demonstrated commitment to education and professional development- Ability to operate independently and navigate through change or uncertainty- Problem solving and analytical skills with a proactive management style to implement new processes- Process improvement orientation, innovation and change agent.Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.**Who we are** We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.**What we look for** Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.**We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to break
