R&D Finance Enterprise Partner
About The Position
Roche is seeking an R&D Finance Enterprise Partner to play a critical leadership role in optimizing funds for R&D investment. As the innovation pipeline grows, Finance must ensure relentless investments in areas that drive step change. The R&D Finance Network supports core Research business units (pRED, gRED & PD) and focuses on Finance Enterprise Partnering, building trustful relationships with a shared commitment to delivering greater impact for patients. This role operates within a newly created R&D Finance operating model, enabling Finance Enterprise Partners to work as a network in one team. These partners are business-savvy professionals who understand stakeholder needs, drive integrated solutions across Pharma, Diagnostics, and Insights, and catalyze cross-collaboration between R&D units. They bring a holistic, end-to-end view across the enterprise, combining technical skills with communication and storytelling to challenge the status quo, have eye-level conversations, and navigate complexity.
Requirements
- Bachelor degree is required, MA/MBA is a plus
- A minimum 5+ years of relevant finance experience, ideally including several years of experience as business partner or global controller
- Excellent ability to interact with and influence decision-making at senior management levels, strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to synthesize complex analyses into pragmatic and actionable guidance for business partners
- Ability to network throughout a global, complex and matrixed organization and able to bring a dynamic and entrepreneurial mindset, seeking continuous opportunities and improvement
- Strategic agility to develop flexible scenarios and solutions; anticipate changing internal and competitive landscapes, envision the future state of finance and the business and lead team(s) to develop and execute long-term initiatives
- Passion for the drug development process and ability to work with ambiguity, balancing risk and reward and to take smart risks
- Proven record of providing financial stewardship and ensuring Financial governance
- Proven leadership and coaching skills with a passion to develop and nurture talent
- High motivation to work collaboratively and enable agile ways of working, creative mindset and empowered decision-making
Nice To Haves
- MA/MBA is a plus
Responsibilities
- Serve initially as a Finance Enterprise Partner to development functions in early stage with the expectation that over time you may go on to support molecule teams and/or other development functions in early and/or late stage
- Serve as thought partner and leader in driving value creation, while also driving productivity and transformation initiatives across the teams.
- Drive transparency and insights to make good business decisions in support of our ambition.
- Embrace our new R&D Finance Network model and advance the collaboration model between eCOE and other Finance units
- Build (and dissolve) networks across the organization to drive important business outcomes and initiatives
- Seek opportunities to align interests with business need and impact, while committing to action
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.
- Benefits detailed at the link provided below.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
