Finance & Insights Manager at Teva Pharmaceuticals

Our Team, Your Impact

• The Finance & Insights Manager is responsible for providing strategic financial leadership, analytical insight, and strong finance business partnering support to the organisation.
• The role combines financial governance, performance management, and strategic decision support to enable informed decision-making, drive sustainable business performance, and ensure compliance with statutory and corporate requirements.

How You’ll Spend Your Day

People Leadership and Capability Development

• Lead, manage, coach, and develop finance team members with a focus on analytical and
  strategic capability.
• Foster a high‑performance, collaborative team culture with a strong focus on accuracy,
  accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Support knowledge sharing, upskilling, and adoption of best-practice finance methodologies.

Financial Leadership and Governance

• Drive finance operations, including month-end, quarter-end, and year-end processes,
  ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timely reporting.
• Review and approve journals, balance sheet reconciliations, income statements, and
  supporting schedules.
• Ensure compliance with statutory, tax, and corporate reporting requirements.
• Prepare annual financial statements and manage external audit processes, including BEE
  audits where applicable.
• Maintain strong internal controls and adherence to group finance policies and accounting
  standards.

Strategic Financial Planning and Performance Management

• Lead and support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes in alignment
  with business strategy.
• Prepare and present quarterly financial results and executive-level presentations.
• Analyze financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying risks,
  opportunities, and improvement areas.
• Provide detailed variance analysis, scenario modelling, and business performance insights to
  senior stakeholders.

Business Partnering and Decision Support

• Act as a trusted finance business partner to commercial, operational, and functional leaders.
• Provide financial insight, challenge, and recommendations to support strategic initiatives and
  decision-making.
• Support pricing, product profitability, and product P&L analysis.
• Assist senior leadership with ad hoc financial analysis, strategic projects, and corporate
  finance requests.

Tax, Statutory and Regulatory Compliance

• Review VAT returns and oversee the preparation and submission of provisional and annual
  tax returns.
• Ensure compliance with SARS requirements and manage correspondence and queries.
• Oversee statutory filings, including CIPC annual returns.
• Support transfer pricing processes, including annual calculations, true-ups, and
  documentation.

Corporate and Group Reporting

• Review and submit balance sheet and income statement reporting to corporate.
• Prepare highlights memos and technical summaries for accounting and tax matters.
• Engage with corporate accounting teams on policy interpretation, implementation, and
  compliance matters.
• Support internal audits and other corporate reviews as required

Systems, Processes and Continuous Improvement

• Maintain and enhance finance systems, including account mapping and version roll-overs for
  budgeting and forecasting cycles.
• Drive process improvements and efficiencies within finance operations and reporting.
• Support finance transformation initiatives and analytics enhancements.

Your Skills and Experience

• Chartered Accountant (CA(SA))
• Minimum of five (5) years’ management experience in a finance leadership role.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry (advantageous)
• Strong commercial and marketing finance experience.
• Experience in financial analysis, modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning.
• Experience in month-end processes and tax reporting within a multinational environment.
• Exposure to transfer pricing in an inventory-based environment (advantageous).
• Exposure to finance systems such as Sage and Cognos (advantageous).

Key Competencies and Attritubes

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
• High attention to detail with proven accuracy in reporting and compliance.
• Ability to perform effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables.
• Proactive, solutions-driven mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement.