Global Finance Business Partner, Pharma Solutions
About The Position
The Global Finance Business Partner is the senior finance lead for Pharma Solutions and finance leader for the Alabaster site. The role provides independent insight, constructive challenge and decision support, connecting site performance with a global view of the business. It partners with the Pharma Solutions Vice President, the Alabaster Site Head and their leadership teams, and coordinates financial insight across the United States, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Korea. The position reports to the North America Finance Director and has no direct reports. It is supported by SAP data, site accountants and the broader Finance organization. The role leads global performance reporting and review, with a focus on sales, margin, profitability, cash flow, working capital, forecasts and capital returns. It supports business strategy and five-year plans, coordinates budgets and forecasts, advises on commercial contracts, and analyzes capacity, portfolio and investment trade-offs across sites. It also strengthens capital-project governance, including investments of $1 million or more, technology transfers and grant applications, and integrates Alabaster performance and investment decisions into the global business view. The successful candidate will build a consistent monthly performance-review rhythm, establish clear profitability visibility across products, portfolios and sites, align Alabaster site finance with global routines, and implement practical dashboard, automation and analytics improvements. This is a senior individual-contributor leadership role focused on influence and decision quality rather than managing a large organization. It requires balancing strategic perspective with hands-on analysis, working with limited oversight, and communicating financial implications clearly. This is an on-site position with associated travel, based at Croda’s corporate headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. The annual base salary range is $170,000–$210,000. Additional compensation, such as annual bonuses or other incentives, may be offered based on eligibility and company policies.
Requirements
- Senior finance business partnering experience supporting strategic and operational decisions in a complex business.
- Strong FP&A capability across budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, reporting and scenario analysis.
- Strong financial-accounting and data understanding, including the ability to investigate complex movements and explain their business implications.
- Experience analyzing sales, margin, profitability, cash flow, working capital, costs and balance-sheet performance.
- Experience supporting manufacturing or site leadership with cost analysis, investment decisions and operational insight.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate across functions, sites and geographies without direct authority.
- Strong analytical and presentation capability for finance and non-finance audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a relevant discipline.
- Ability to operate with limited oversight, balance strategic perspective with hands-on analysis, and provide independent challenge.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in pharmaceuticals, life sciences, biotechnology, specialty ingredients or multi-site manufacturing.
- SAP, enterprise financial data, dashboards, automation or analytics experience.
- Capital-project governance, investment appraisal, technology-transfer finance or grant-support experience.
- CPA, CMA, ACA, ACCA, CGMA or equivalent qualification.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the trusted finance partner to Pharma Solutions leadership, providing independent insight and constructive challenge.
- Connect financial performance, business priorities and long-term plans into clear recommendations.
- Support business strategy and five-year plans through analysis, scenarios and decision materials.
- Own and enhance global reporting for sales, margin and profitability.
- Lead monthly performance reviews, explaining results, identifying risks and opportunities, and establishing actions.
- Improve visibility of product, portfolio, site and global profitability.
- Review balance-sheet, cash-flow and working-capital performance.
- Coordinate budgets, forecasts and long-range plans, including clear understanding of assumptions and movements.
- Support sales management and forecasting processes.
- Advise on complex commercial contracts and their finance and accounting implications.
- Analyze capacity, portfolio optimization and investment trade-offs across sites.
- Strengthen governance for capital projects, including investments of $1 million or more, technology transfers and grant applications.
- Integrate Alabaster site performance, costs and investment decisions into the global view.
- Improve historical and forward-looking insight through dashboards, automation, analytics and appropriate AI-enabled tools.
- Establish a consistent monthly global performance-review rhythm covering sales, margin, profitability, cash flow, working capital and key drivers.
- Create a clear global profitability view across products, portfolios and sites.
- Align Alabaster site finance with Pharma Solutions global reporting, planning and leadership routines.
- Lead through influence across commercial, operational, site and finance teams.
- Investigate complex performance movements and explain their implications clearly.
- Remain close to analytical detail while helping shape the long-term direction of the business.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
