About This Role
The Finance Business Partner Manager acts as an agile thought partner and trusted advisor, supporting Finance Business Partners, Site Function Heads, and managers in financial planning, forecasting, and analysis, as well as monthly close processes. This role ensures compliance with SOX, IFRS, and other regulations, and supports continuous improvement of processes, controls, systems, and tools. You will collaborate with various departments, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and R&D, to establish and determine product costs, with responsibility for analysis, reconciliation, and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Administer semi-annual financial planning processes and provide supporting analyses to the Finance Business Partner(s), Site Function Heads, and managers
- Assist in developing value-added financial models and analytical tools to support function objectives and projects
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively solve discrepancies, and with local and regional Finance teams to develop detailed explanations for variances between actual and plan
- Support the development, deployment, and use of the financial planning system and financial models
- Manage the monthly financial close process and collaborate with Takeda Business Solutions to initiate entries on an ongoing basis
- Perform variance analysis such as manufacturing variances, cost revaluation, and work order variances
- Prepare and distribute monthly reporting packages and analyses, identifying opportunities for streamlining and enhancement
- Educate functional management on the use of reporting tools and Finance concepts
- Perform product costing analysis and support, including updating product costs for the annual cost change and monthly analysis of work order variances and costing for new products where required
- Support local fixed assets, asset tagging and verification, project support, and controlling needs for strategic capital projects
- Ensure SOX controls compliance and audit support where required
- Assist with and ensure successful internal and external audits
- Designated as super user on TM1 and SAP applications
Requirements
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting; master’s or CPA preferred
- 5+ years of experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, decision analytics, or related finance roles
- Experience in Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry, including cost accounting experience in operations
- Analytical software skills (TM1, SAP, Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Office Suite – Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access)
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including written, verbal, and presentation communication and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
