Controller

Aptar Digital Health (ADH), a division of Aptar Pharma, is a manufacturer of cutting-edge software and physical medical devices that enable patients to become more autonomous and to be supported in their care directly from their smartphone. Quality, patient safety and excellence are at the heart of what we do.

Job Overview 

The Controller is responsible for ensuring all general and cost accounting activities are performed in accordance with regional accounting principles and Aptar policy; internal controls are properly established and being actively monitored; and financial reporting is complete, accurate and timely.  They will ensure the oversight of controlling cost, accounting record keeping in the other business functions and ensure financial controls are adequate to safeguard from loss or other impropriety in fixed assets record record keeping and labor/overhead usage.

Principal Duties and Accountabilities 

• Partnership – Provide guidance and support to the management staff as well as other functional activities to ensure transaction processing, labor costing and overhead are understood.  Deliver first-level support for Voluntis operations team for all finance and accounting questions. 
• Reporting and analysis– Provide bridges and explanations to Division Controller for snapshot and forecast, with analysis of the results vs budget, forecast and last year. Prepare the financial reporting and provide information for the consolidation of the services by Division.
• Forecasting activities – Elaborates the monthly / quarterly snapshot forecast or ad-hoc forecast to ensure an accurate revenue / EBITDA. Expenses are reviewed and estimated versus actual and any operational challenges / opportunities.
• Monthly closing – Elaborates the monthly closing tasks, supervises accounting entries (mainly managed by our global business services based in Czech Republic), and make sure they are properly entered and balanced. Perform analysis of the expenses versus projection and budget and propose corrective actions to managers. Prepare monthly FISL / posting in SAP and performs load in BPC. Prepare monthly schedules in accordance with Aptar deadlines and policies.
• 5-year plan and Annual Budget Process – Lead the annual 5-year plan revision as well as the site revenue and cost center budget process.  Collaborate, review and challenges numbers with BDM and cost center managers to create the total site budgets.
• Internal Controls – Ensure the ongoing control over Aptar assets is achieved by establishing a culture and environment where all functional departments (finance, sales, IT, HR, etc.) provide strict adherence to Aptar Standards of Internal Control. They act as the reference source and owner of all written policies for campus personnel.  Lastly, and equally as important, the controller function is responsible for ensuring accounting and reporting is complete, accurate and timely (including month-end close accounting).  Maintain adequate reporting for key SOX controls.  Provide support for internal and external audit requests.
• Management Information Systems – Continual support of developing management reporting efficiencies.  Train and delegate other resources to ensure accurate electronic transaction processing occurs in SAP and other software packages (materials requirement, quality, etc.).

Position Qualifications

• Extensive experience inclusive of accounting and or financial analysis experience.

• Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills and able to partner with key operations management on a daily basis.

• Highly motivated person who is willing to learn and be challenged by learning / spending time with project teams to understand specificities related to this environment.

• Strong working knowledge and experience of using accounting SAP software, Microsoft Excel. Power Bi knowledge is a plus.

• Must have recognised Professional Accountancy Qualification or Qualified by Experience.