Senior Financial Analyst

Our Frederick Manufacturing Center (FMC) creates life-changing medicines for people around the world and has been recognized by our local community as being a Top 50’ Business in Frederick and awarded Frederick County’s ‘Best Place to Work’. This distinctive biologic manufacturing facility, with over 800 employees, makes a direct contribution to treating people with cancer, respiratory and autoimmune conditions across the globe. We work hard to deliver life-changing medicines to patients, and we take time to have fun and celebrate our accomplishments. From catered site festivities to competitive events, community outreach activities, environmental and wellness showcases and team-building functions, we take time to recognize our achievements and celebrate our diversity. We are dedicated to creating a culture of inclusion and collaboration and are committed to continuous learning by offering ongoing skill building and training for our staff. Fueled by our aspiration to deliver accelerated growth for our company and to make people’s lives better, there’s never been a more exciting time to join the team and shape the future of AstraZeneca Operations.

Join us as a Senior Financial Analyst in our Operations department, where you'll be routinely reviewing data to identify trends within Finance. You'll support variance analysis through data analytics for manufacturing variances, volume trending, and deferred variances. This role also provides support for manufacturing costing through SAP and Manufacturing Accounting software.

Accountabilities:

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you'll be responsible for reviewing manufacturing process order variance data, calculating yield variance reports, preparing site cost summary reports, and arranging property tax payments. You'll also support the Senior Finance Manager and Site Controller with various ad-hoc finance requests and lead the Inventory Provision report for month-end close alignment with site Finance, GFS, and SCO team.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• 5-7 years of progressive costing experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics.
  
  
  

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• 4 years experience in QA preferred.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Strong data analytic focus with solid experience in quality systems (deviations, change control, document management, metric reporting).
  
  
  

At AstraZeneca, we're pioneering new approaches and processes across our sites, empowering our teams to foster a Lean mindset and sustainable practices. We're adaptable and agile, open to others' views, and draw on the diverse expertise of our teams. We're always willing to listen, taking ideas from anywhere and giving others ownership to make their idea a reality. We understand the importance of getting our teams' buy-in to our decisions. Our work helps give people with diseases a fighting chance. Every day is a challenge but that's what keeps us going. There's an indescribable buzz when we get to meet patients we have helped.

Ready to foster trust and get the best out of others? Join us today and help make our sites more than a place to work, but a home for our 'family' where you feel supported and can have fun whilst working on interesting challenges!