Country: Hungary
Functional area: Finance

Our client, a prominent multinational pharmaceutical corporation, is seeking a high-caliber Senior Global Commercial Controller to join their global finance division.

In this pivotal role, you will oversee and drive financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and strategic analysis across a dedicated portfolio of international countries, markets, and regional clusters. Operating as a strategic Finance Business Partner, you will collaborate closely with local finance leadership, commercial directors, and global stakeholders to optimize financial performance and support data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

  • Financial Planning & Forecasting: Oversee, guide, and critically evaluate the budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning cycles for financials and core KPIs across your assigned portfolio, ensuring high accuracy and corporate alignment.

  • Performance Management & Insights: Track and evaluate commercial performance against budget and historical data at brand, national, and cluster levels. Deliver clear variance analyses and translate complex data into actionable business intelligence.

  • Strategic Business Partnering: Serve as a trusted advisor to country and market finance directors. Work hand-in-hand with local finance teams to elevate reporting discipline, forecasting quality, and strategic support.

  • Affiliate Guidance & Governance: Counsel and constructively challenge market stakeholders on financial assumptions, processes, and outcomes, ensuring strict alignment with Group Controlling standards.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Group Business Intelligence, Supply Chain Management (SCM), BU Controllers, and other corporate functions to harmonize processes and support local affiliates.

  • Investment & Cost Control: Provide rigorous financial oversight on Gross-to-Net (GtN), Selling & Marketing (S&M), and G&A expenditures. Facilitate resource allocation optimization to maximize ROI.

  • Efficiency Drives & Modeling: Champion efficiency initiatives utilizing scenario planning, sensitivity analyses, and cross-functional cost reviews.

  • Systems & Digital Transformation: Contribute to the rollout and integration of modern financial tools, driving automation and advanced analytics capability.

  • Process Architecture: Actively participate in designing and continually enhancing commercial planning and reporting frameworks.

  • Risk & Opportunity Management: Develop an independent, objective understanding of market dynamics to challenge assumptions, identify commercial risks/opportunities, and escalate strategic insights to leadership.

  • Executive Reporting: Prepare high-quality management reports and ad-hoc financial presentations for senior executives and steering committees.

  • Business Development Support: Provide financial analysis and valuation support for designated M&A, business development, and post-merger integration projects.

Requirements

  • Education: Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field from a reputable university. Professional certifications (ACCA, CIMA, CPA) are considered a distinct advantage.

  • Experience: Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in Commercial Finance, FP&A, Business Controlling, or Finance Business Partnering within large, complex multinational environments.

  • Scope: Proven track record in a regional, multi-country, or global HQ capacity is mandatory.

  • Sector Focus: Solid experience supporting commercial, sales, and marketing operations (pharmaceutical or healthcare sector experience is highly valued).

  • Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to influence senior management within a complex matrix organization.

  • Language Skills: Full professional fluency in both English and Hungarian (written and spoken) is required.
     

Are you interested to hear more? Submit your CV and let us contact you to share more details about this opportunity!
 

Our client, a prominent multinational pharmaceutical corporation, is seeking a high-caliber Senior Global Commercial Controller to join their global finance division.

In this pivotal role, you will oversee and drive financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and strategic analysis across a dedicated portfolio of international countries, markets, and regional clusters. Operating as a strategic Finance Business Partner, you will collaborate closely with local finance leadership, commercial directors, and global stakeholders to optimize financial performance and support data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

  • Financial Planning & Forecasting: Oversee, guide, and critically evaluate the budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning cycles for financials and core KPIs across your assigned portfolio, ensuring high accuracy and corporate alignment.

  • Performance Management & Insights: Track and evaluate commercial performance against budget and historical data at brand, national, and cluster levels. Deliver clear variance analyses and translate complex data into actionable business intelligence.

  • Strategic Business Partnering: Serve as a trusted advisor to country and market finance directors. Work hand-in-hand with local finance teams to elevate reporting discipline, forecasting quality, and strategic support.

  • Affiliate Guidance & Governance: Counsel and constructively challenge market stakeholders on financial assumptions, processes, and outcomes, ensuring strict alignment with Group Controlling standards.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Group Business Intelligence, Supply Chain Management (SCM), BU Controllers, and other corporate functions to harmonize processes and support local affiliates.

  • Investment & Cost Control: Provide rigorous financial oversight on Gross-to-Net (GtN), Selling & Marketing (S&M), and G&A expenditures. Facilitate resource allocation optimization to maximize ROI.

  • Efficiency Drives & Modeling: Champion efficiency initiatives utilizing scenario planning, sensitivity analyses, and cross-functional cost reviews.

  • Systems & Digital Transformation: Contribute to the rollout and integration of modern financial tools, driving automation and advanced analytics capability.

  • Process Architecture: Actively participate in designing and continually enhancing commercial planning and reporting frameworks.

  • Risk & Opportunity Management: Develop an independent, objective understanding of market dynamics to challenge assumptions, identify commercial risks/opportunities, and escalate strategic insights to leadership.

  • Executive Reporting: Prepare high-quality management reports and ad-hoc financial presentations for senior executives and steering committees.

  • Business Development Support: Provide financial analysis and valuation support for designated M&A, business development, and post-merger integration projects.

Requirements

  • Education: Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field from a reputable university. Professional certifications (ACCA, CIMA, CPA) are considered a distinct advantage.

  • Experience: Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in Commercial Finance, FP&A, Business Controlling, or Finance Business Partnering within large, complex multinational environments.

  • Scope: Proven track record in a regional, multi-country, or global HQ capacity is mandatory.

  • Sector Focus: Solid experience supporting commercial, sales, and marketing operations (pharmaceutical or healthcare sector experience is highly valued).

  • Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to influence senior management within a complex matrix organization.

  • Language Skills: Full professional fluency in both English and Hungarian (written and spoken) is required.
     

Are you interested to hear more? Submit your CV and let us contact you to share more details about this opportunity!