Finance Business Partner

AstraZeneca•Philadelphia, PA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you ready to turn operational data into critical actions that elevate performance and strengthen our supply of medicines to patients? In this role, you will partner closely with site leaders to connect financial clarity with manufacturing excellence—bringing discipline, foresight, and challenge that advances both short-term results and long-term value. You will be part of an agile, high-impact team that is integrated with the business. Together, we focus on what matters most: reliable supply, productivity improvement, and smart capital deployment. How will you apply your analytical difficulty to enable swift progress while maintaining oversight and help the site deliver on its ambit

Requirements

Proven experience delivering timely, accurate close aligned with US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley, with strong documentation and control evidence.
Demonstrated ability to prepare management reporting documents (P&L, Capex, benchmarks) featuring clear variance analysis and actionable insights.
Hands-on governance of site KPIs including OEE, yield, throughput, scrap, labor productivity, and inventory turns; tracking drivers and enabling corrective actions.
Expertise in forward-looking outlooks and rolling forecasts; clear communication of risks, mitigations, and scenarios to senior leadership.
End-to-end planning, budgeting, and forecasting across volumes, standard costs, COGM, OPEX, headcount, and productivity with stakeholder alignment through Finance.
Experience building and updating standard costs in accordance with manufacturing frameworks and franchise guidelines, encompassing alterations to bill of materials, routing sequences, and overhead rates.
Strong partnering with Supply/Operations to align S&OP to financial plans, identify plan integrity issues, and propose resolutions.
Deep knowledge of product costing analysis and breakdown of cost variances (PPV, labor/overhead absorption, mix, yield/scrap) with root-cause action planning.
Proficiency in tracking inventory valuation drivers (cycle counts, write-offs, obsolescence, aged stock, NPI) and supporting working capital targets.
Business partnering with ELT and functional leaders, preparing financial models and scenarios for decision-making with appropriate challenge to assumptions.
Capital spend tracking, forecasting, and capitalization policy compliance; benefits realization analysis; budgeting, hazard evaluation, and return on investment tracking.
Operational Excellence approach; ability to identify automation and standardization opportunities, implement improvements, and embrace technological and intelligent systems evolution.
Dedication to cGMP, they, and standards outlined in the Conduct Guidelines; strong audit coordination capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience coordinating with global finance services to execute accounting actions required by operations.
Track record of communicating risks and mitigations to SLT and ELT, enabling timely decisions.
Background in manufacturing finance within complex supply environments, including NPI and working capital optimization.
Proven success driving continuous improvement across cross-functional workflows and sharing standard processes in a broader operations finance community.
Comfort with scenario-based decision support for capital and operational initiatives, including benefits realization and post-implementation review.

Responsibilities

Financial Stewardship and Compliance: Ensure monthly, quarterly, and annual close is timely and accurate, aligned with US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, and company policies. Maintain standards for documentation and control evidence. Coordinate audit requests and uphold cGMP, safety, health, environment, and Code of Conduct requirements to protect the business and maintain trust.
Management Reporting and Performance Insights: Prepare clear, decision-ready management reporting packs (P&L, Capex, important metrics) with variance analysis; lead site benchmark governance across OEE, yield, production flow, defect rates, workforce efficiency, and stock turnover to identify drivers, risks, and opportunities; deliver insights and recommendations that prompt action.
Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: Coordinate site inputs for annual and quarterly forecasts covering volumes, standard expenses, manufacturing output costs, operational expenditures, staffing levels, and efficiency; drive alignment across collaborators for Finance approval; support standard cost builds and updates, including BOM, routing, and overhead rate changes, aligned to manufacturing models and franchise mentorship.
Financial Stewardship and Compliance: Costing, Inventory, and Manufacturing Finance: Perform product costing analysis and variance decomposition (PPV, labor/overhead absorption, mix, yield/scrap); coordinate root-cause action plans; supervise inventory valuation drivers (cycle counts, write-offs, obsolescence, slow-moving items, NPI) and support working capital targets to optimize cash and cost.
Collaborate with ELT and functional leaders to develop arguments and ongoing improvement initiatives. Build financial models and scenarios. Apply analytical rigor and constructive challenge to assumptions to ensure decisions are made quickly with control and quality.
Capital and Project Portfolio Governance: Coordinate capital spend tracking and forecasting; ensure adherence to capitalization guidelines; prepare status updates and benefits realization analyses; support engineering and operations leaders on project financials, risk assessment, and value tracking to improve returns from investments.
Ways of Working and Continuous Improvement: Champion Operational Excellence across finance processes and cross-functional workflows; identify automation opportunities and standardization; implement improvements and adopt Digital and AI transformation; contribute to community initiatives by sharing best practices across the network.