Finance & Accounting Analyst

at  Catalent Pharma Solutions

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference to the health of millions of people globally. Your expertise, coupled with Catalent’s advanced technologies and collaboration with thousands of innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents , ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. Interested in learning more about life at Catalent? Start here

POSITION SUMMARY

Catalent is looking to recruit a Finance & Accounting Analyst to be an integral member of the Finance team which directly supports the New Product Development (R&D) o rganization along with Fixed Asset accounting for the Woodstock, IL facility.
The Finance & Accounting Analyst will be instrumental in financial planning & budgeting, accounting, project cost analysis, customer billing, internal controls, SOX compliance, preparing management presentation materials, and other ad-hoc analysis/support.
The Finance & Accounting analyst role is critical to our patients. This position is key in our efforts toward continuous improvement of our processes & information which will allow quality drug products to reach patients safely and efficiently. The candidate that will be successful in this role will possess these key traits: financial aptitude, integrity, change agent, and a team player!

• Prepare monthly financial forecast and management presentation material for the R&D organization; oversee R&D departmental cost budget and prepare Annual Budget for R&D project costs
• Coordinate with Business Development and R&D to review customer contracts to determine appropriate Revenue Recognition treatment of projects
• Assist in the preparation of capital authorization requests (C.A.R.’s) and detailed justification analysis for operational projects
• Conduct Fixed Asset physical inventory per policy and forecast depreciation expense
• Ensure construction in progress account (CIP) is correct and test assets for impairment
• Assist corporate finance in the development, adaptation, or revision of accounting systems to meet the needs of the site
• Prepare accurate customer invoices for R&D projects and monthly close journal entries & balance sheet reconciliations