Job Description

For more than 130 years, Eli Lilly and Company has been dedicated to meeting the health care needs of people in the United States and around the world. We address these needs primarily by developing innovative medicines—investing a higher percentage of our sales in research and development than any other major pharmaceutical company. If you are interested in being considered for employment with a “Best in Class” Pharmaceutical company, please review the following opportunity:

Capital Project Financial Controller

Lilly’s Capital Controls and Audit (CCA) organization partners with global manufacturing sites and corporate procurement, engineering and financial organizations that are responsible for delivering capital projects (up to $500M) to ensure capital projects are delivered in an environment of good
financial control. CCA manages 2 critical processes to provide assurance that capital projects are financially controlled:  Audit Function and Capital ProjectControllership Function.

KEY OBJECTIVES/DELIVERABLES:
     Responsible for leading CCA’s Capital Project Finance Controllership Function, but with up to 25% time dedicated to audit activities and
     other project initiatives.
     Assist manufacturing plant site’s financial, engineering, and procurement functions to ensure local capital planning and delivery processes are        adequately controlled and in compliance with corporate policies, guidelines and expectations.
     Assist and train financial controllers of major capital projects toensure project financial control processes are maintained and
     effective.
     Represent finance on Task Teams led by Engineering to standardize and improve efficiencies of local capital planning and delivery.
     Manage CCA controllership processes which monitor financial compliance of key major capital projects and continuous auditing
     processes of key capital vendors.
     Share knowledge globally, to ensure capital control process best practices are leveraged worldwide.
     Lead or assist partners (manufacturing sites, corporate engineering,and corporate procurement) in special projects to improve the
     business process control of local- and major-capital processes

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
     Bachelors required
     Understanding of accounting principles and SAP (or other enterprise management experience) accounting transactions.                                        At least 5 years experience with construction project management processes for both large, complex major-capital projects, and local-capital          projects Capital prioritization and planning processes                                                                                                                                            Capital execution processes including procurement, construction contracts and contracting, scheduling, quantity surveying, change
     order management, construction project owner risk mitigation processes.
     IT knowledge
     Ability to utilize SAP (or other enterprise management experience)  – both financial and project management modules
     Ability to learn ACL for data mining.
     Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States.                                                                                        

      Eli Lilly and Company does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for thisemployment position.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS/PREFERENCES:
     Professional certifications (CIA, CPA, CFM) preferred
     Influence and Leadership – role requires working cross functionally with other groups as well as with third party vendors and thus
     individual must be able to influence both internal and external partners.
     Strong understanding of construction project owner risk areas, contract interpretation and execution, procurement processes,
     construction vendor business processes and risks
     Strong understanding of financial controls as they relate to construction projects and construction project vendors.
     Strong analytical skills - to understand, and evaluate issues, prioritize and implement action plans to control capital costs and to
     manage continuous auditing program.
     Excellent communication skills both oral and written to ensure linkages are made between site and corporate on projects and in
     communicating best practices.
     Ability to design and implement business and control processes in existing or new capital business processes
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
     Based in Indianapolis
     Interplant travel within Indiana likely.
     Travel required for professional development training, controllership, audits and project related work outside Indiana (US
     or OUS). 10-25% of time.

Lilly credits its exceptional employees for its successes, and knows the key to ongoing achievement lies in attracting and retaining the best
people. A company rich in heritage, Lilly employs individuals, conducts research and markets products worldwide.  By providing for the unmet needs
of our customers through a continuous stream of innovation, we will outgrow all competitors.

Lilly earns consistent and wide recognition for creating an exceptional
work environment:
     Business Week magazine 50 Best Places To Launch A Career™
     FORTUNE America’s Most Admired Companies™
     FORTUNE 50 Best Companies for Minorities™
     Working Mother 100 Best Companies for Working  Mothers™
     Industry Week magazine 100 Best-Managed Companies™
     Business Ethics magazine 100 Best Corporate Citizens™
     Science magazine Best Companies for Scientists™
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

TO APPLY, PLEASE VISIT:
https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_lilly/external/gateway.do?functionName=viewFromLink&jobPostId=21489&localeCode=en-us

Amie Stansberry, CIR, CDR
The Right Thing, Inc
3401 Technology Drive
Findlay, OH 45840
419.420.1830 Ext. 4371
Amie.Stansberry@rightthinginc.com

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