Finance Business Partner Lead - Associate Director

Takeda•Thousand Oaks, CA

20d•Onsite

About The Position

The Finance Business Partner Lead is a seasoned finance professional that supports the Thousand Oaks Manufacturing site as the main business partner for the facility. This role is a high-level individual contributor and reports directly to the Site Finance Head. The role helps lead all Finance activities within the site, including business partnering, decision support, business cases and investment decisions, planning, forecasting, fiduciary and statutory responsibilities and obligations. This role is an independent thought leader providing strategic direction to Site/OpU/Region, with a deep understanding of the Site Manufacturing/Site Support Functions in achieving the site strategy. The role also aims to elevate financial capabilities within the Site Finance function and develop the next generation of leaders.

Requirements

BS/BA Degree in Accounting or Finance and 10+ years of relevant experience.
Strong financial analysis skills, and experience supporting cross-functional decision making
Excellent communication skills and strong executive presence
Problem solver with the ability to think strategically and be solution-oriented to support key business decisions.
Collaborator who can optimally navigate across a global, matrixed organization
Strong analytical skill with ability to synthesize large amounts of data and financial modeling
Experience in Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry
Experience in Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry, including cost accounting experience with exposure to manufacturing and/or supply chain.
Deep understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools, their business functions, and the interactions between those functions.
Experience with the following applications: SAP, JD Edwards, SAP Analytics Clouds, Blackline, Concur, Ariba, Qlik Cloud, ReportsNow, Invoicetrack and all Microsoft Office suite programs.

Nice To Haves

Relationship management – establish productive relationships with own group and cross-functional teams.
Ability to effectively articulate ideas and problem-solve across a variety of settings.
Enterprise mindset – ability to join the dots, think broadly and serve the best interest of the enterprise through own role and department.

Responsibilities

Help drive and lead the finance organization for the site, including decision support, budgeting, forecasting, and financial variance analysis.
Develop financial business cases and analyses for capital investments to justify the initiative by proving its value.
Work collaboratively with the site leadership team to provide financial insights on manufacturing performance, local risks and opportunities, predictive scenario planning, new products, and transformation initiatives.
Partner with key stakeholders to ensure budget accountability and proactively address financial risks and help determine how to offset cost overruns.
Maintain financial master data and ensures data integrity for financial tools.
Help perform annual standard cost calculations and monthly deviation analysis.
Continuously enhance the controls environment and ensure adherence to all policies.
Oversee local SOX & controls planning, implementation, remediation, and risk assessment.
Engage in collaborative relationships with internal and external partners.
Ensure the fiduciary and statutory responsibilities and obligations, by overseeing statutory reporting and compliance requirements, providing oversight of period end reporting, stats and tax returns submissions where required.