Senior Finance Associate

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role:

As part of this journey, Elanco is looking for experienced financial leaders with strong leadership and business partnering skills to help Senior Management make well-informed, data-driven decisions.  This position will serve as an analyst for the broader US entity but primarily focusing on the Commercial business and report to the US Controller.  Specifically, the role requires strong knowledge of accounting, controls, SOx compliance understanding, and technology while working effectively as both a preparer and a teammate to achieve the accounting goals for the organization. 

Your Responsibilities:


* Help prepare several areas of accounting, controls, and SOx activities for the US legal entity potentially including the following:
+ Performing key month-end close activities (e.g., posting journal entries, performing financial statement analysis, preparing account reconciliations, etc.)
+ Assist in preparation of trial balance reviews as part of monthly close
+ Assist in the financial support of commercial teams; focused on sales analysis and governance of net sales processes & financial controls.
+ Assist in preparation of automation efforts across the US Commercial enterprise to more efficiently and accurately produce deliverables
+ Performance of SOx controls focused on maintaining financial excellence within the US affiliates’ rebates process
+ Assist in preparation of Ad-Hoc management internal reporting materials.
+ Work with the business process outsource team (responsible for the transaction accounting for O2C, P2P, product costing and R2R) to answer questions, elevate issues, etc.

This position works frequently with employees in Elanco support centers located in Warsaw, Poland and Guajajara, Mexico.



* Provide financial insights and recommendations to help organization make informed decisions and achieve superior results; lead ad-hoc business cases and projects which have enterprise impact where required



* Serve as liaison to stakeholders suppo...