Associate Director - Treasury Benefits

Our Support Functions deliver critical services and provide strategic recommendations that help enhance our workplace and strengthen our organizational culture. These functions include Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, and Administration.

Reporting to the Director, the Associate Director, Treasury Benefits Finance, is responsible for providing financial support for domestic and global benefits programs.

Key responsibilities include forecasting, financial analysis, accounting, reporting, compliance, and funding.

• Partner with and support Human Resources, Legal, Tax, and local finance teams on strategic benefit design changes and related initiatives.

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and monthly and quarterly close activities related to more than $1 billion in employee benefit expense.

• Ensure the efficient and compliant funding of more than $1 billion in employee benefits spend.

• Prepare schedules and analyses to support the Company’s quarterly and annual reporting requirements.

• Provide oversight of global and domestic third-party service providers;

• Maintain adherence to internal controls and support ongoing compliance requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• Minimum of five years of demonstrated experience in an accounting or finance role.

• Ability to work independently, accurately, and effectively under time constraints.

• Strong analytical, communication, organizational, project management, and collaboration skills.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and demonstrated ability to work with large data sets.

• CPA certification.

• Familiarity with accounting and financial statement preparation.

• Demonstrated client-facing experience.

• Audit experience preferred.

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The salary range for this role is

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this 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.

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.