The posting
Job Description
Senior Specialist, Digital Human Health (DHH) IT Financial Planning & Analysis
Key Responsibilities:
Business Partnership & Decision Support:
- Serve as a trusted financial partner to DHH IT stakeholders and assigned Value Teams, translating financial results, cost drivers, and forecasts into actionable insights to guide investment, workforce, resource allocation, and demand decisions.
- Advance IT financial management through rolling forecasts that connect financial planning with the evolving IT product model and business priorities.
- Align financial plans with business priorities and communicate key assumptions, performance drivers, risks, and opportunities to help stakeholders identify necessary actions.
- Develop Integrated Business Cases for technology investments in partnership with business stakeholders and divisional Finance, evaluating costs, benefits, assumptions, and risks to articulate expected value and support investment decisions within the company’s capital management processes.
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Manage Budget, Forecasts and LROP/LRCP for assigned Value Teams and collaborate with the DHH IT Finance Director and Singapore-based Finance team to consolidate and reconcile financial plans across the DHH IT division.
- Perform variance analysis of actual results against Budget and Forecast, identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities and communicating actionable insights to business stakeholders.
- Serve as a U.S.-based Finance liaison to the DHH IT Finance Director and Singapore-based colleagues, providing analysis, decision support, and issue resolution during U.S. business hours to ensure continuity across time zones.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis and decision support in response to requests from key stakeholders, including IT, Finance, and Procurement.
- Support process improvements and systems enhancements to strengthen the efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of financial planning, analysis, and reporting.
Qualifications:
Education:
- BS/BA degree required in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field.
- MBA or CPA preferred.
Required Experience and Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in finance, accounting, business operations, business strategy, investment management, or similar field.
- Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, with a solid understanding of financial planning and reporting.
- Demonstrated success serving as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to business stakeholders across a global, matrixed organization.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-support skills, including translating complex financial data into actionable business insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of financial evaluation methods, including return on investment and assessment of expected benefits and value realization.
- Initiative, curiosity, adaptability, and accountability, with a collaborative, customer-focused approach.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Strong organizational skills, with a track record of managing competing priorities and delivering accurate, high-quality work under tight deadlines.
- A combination of strategic thinking and hands-on execution skills to support assigned Value Teams and broader DHH IT priorities.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, with experience adopting new technologies and new ways of working.
Preferred Experience and Skills
- Experience using Apptio for financial planning and reporting.
Required Skills:
Finance Strategy, Financial Analysis, Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Planning Budgeting And Forecasting (PBF), Preparation of Financial Reports, Profit and Loss (P&L) Analysis
Preferred Skills:
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The primary location for this posting is:
USA - New Jersey - Rahway
Where required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below.
The salary range for the primary location of this role is:
$106,200.00 - $167,200.00
This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.
Additional location(s): Please note the salary range above applies to the Primary Location of the position. Where a role has other listed locations, different compensation guidelines may apply. You may find the salary ranges for additional locations below. If the salary range is not listed for the location you are applying to, our Talent Acquisition team will provide further information to you relevant to your location.
Additional location(s) Compensation Information:
San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Job Posting End Date:
11/12/2026
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