Finance
The heart of our work
We aim to stay true to our mission and vision of helping to save and improve lives while continuing to adapt to the ever-changing scientific, social, economic, and technical environment. Our team is committed to ensure we provide outstanding business partnership and decision support for initiatives to drive optimization, pipeline commitments, medical needs, and capital builds. We embrace innovation to progress digital and analytics to improve decision making and drive value creation.
Our aspiration
To be recognized leaders in driving decisions, stewarding resources and providing clear, consistent and credible transparency into our business in support of the company’s aspiration to be the premiere research-intensive biopharmaceutical company.
Our purpose
To ensure company resources are accurately reported, safeguarded, optimally deployed and efficiently leveraged as the company uses the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world.
Explore multiple career paths
Client Facing Groups
The Finance client facing teams seek to ensure integration of financial perspectives into the company's strategic and tactical business decisions. It does so by providing divisional and corporate management with appropriate financial services, analysis, and advice, which are developed in the context of our ever-changing business environment.
- Animal Health (AH) Finance
- Corporate Financial Services (CFS)
- Human Health (HH) Finance
- Merck Manufacturing Division (MMD) Finance
- Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) Finance
Controllership
The Finance controllership team is committed to providing superior returns on the assets it manages. At the same time, it is responsible for maintaining the financial integrity of the corporation. This integrity is reflected in the soundness of our balance sheet, the quality of the financial information provided to investors and regulatory bodies, and the relevance of the financial information and advice provided to our management.
- Global Controllers
Functional Expertise
The Finance functional experts utilize state-of-the-art techniques in financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation to support strategic efforts in the specialized functions of Audit, Tax, Treasury, Global Business Services, and Investor Relations.
- Corporate Financial Evaluation & Analysis (FE&A)
- Corporate Tax
- Corporate Treasury
- Global Business Services
- Investor Relations
- Merck Corporate Audit & Assurance Services (MCAAS)
Flourish in a flexible environment
The Global Finance team embraces the Company’s initiative for a hybrid work model, where employees can collaborate with their colleagues in a flexible working environment, depending on business needs, and work remote when their presence is not required in the office. The Global Finance team primarily collaborates in an activity-based, open space, office environment, promoting an ergonomic and engaging workplace to interact with colleagues and business partners.
Empowering career growth
The members of our Global Finance organization are at the heart of the business, each possessing strong business acumen and work ethic. Individuals are offered growth opportunities to collaborate across multiple divisions, regions, and special projects. To increase diversity and representation, we partner with external groups to ensure an inclusive team environment.
• Global career opportunities
• A culture of continuous learning
• Development cross-divisionally with a breadth of skills
• Regional programs to foster networking across Finance
• Global career opportunities
• A culture of continuous learning
• Development cross-divisionally with a breadth of skills
• Regional programs to foster networking across Finance
Compensation & Benefits
Our company’s benefits & well-being programs focus on physical, mental, financial and social well-being. They draw from best practices to ensure quality, competitive value, protection from significant financial hardship, and access to tools and resources to support employees and their families at all stages of their career and their lives. We have a longstanding commitment to fair and equitable pay for all, consistent with our core values of integrity, fairness, and treating all employees with dignity and respect.