Senior Manager, FP&A, Commercial and R&D

CSL

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

CSL Seqirus is seeking a Senior Manager, FP&A, Commercial and R&D to provide analysis, reporting, and planning discipline. This role supports the Global Finance Business Partner for Seqirus Commercial and R&D, turning month-end numbers into clear explanations of drivers, ensuring smooth forecast and budget cycles across markets, and building consistent processes and KPIs for confident business planning. The position is hybrid-based, requiring 3 days a week in the office, and is located in Maidenhead or Liverpool (UK) or Holly Springs, NC or Summit, NJ (US). The role is crucial for accurate forecasting, inventory control, and labor cost management in the seasonal influenza vaccine industry, enabling the business to direct resources effectively. It involves explaining variances, tracking risks and opportunities, standardizing reporting, and improving processes through automation and AI use cases.

Requirements

A business partnering approach, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and drivers.
Substantial FP&A experience in a multi-market business, including month-end reporting, forecasting, and budgeting.
A track record of preparing P&L and variance commentary for senior audiences.
Experience with headcount and labor cost analysis, ideally including predictive modeling.
Working knowledge of inventory accounting and intra-group pricing.
Experience driving process standardization or automation across multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Support the Global Finance Business Partner across the Commercial FP&A cycle, from month end through forecast and budget.
Contribute to bringing R&D reporting fully into the Seqirus FP&A team.
Work with Commercial Finance colleagues, the wider Seqirus business, and CSL Enterprise.
Contribute to the Commercial pages of the month-end pack and board report, with analysis of gross margin and commercial opex.
Review R&D submissions for variance to controllable result.
Coordinate forecast and budget cycles for markets and functions, including timetables, data validation, review sessions, consolidated materials, and management of top-down budget adjustments.
Implement and maintain standardized KPI reporting across all markets, aligned with R&D.
Track and report risks and opportunities through the season, including formal reporting during planning cycles.
Analyze headcount and people cost across functions, regions, and levels, including vacancy, contingent/permanent mix, and seasonal workforce, using predictive modeling to inform labor cost decisions at senior leadership level.
Lead Commercial finished goods inventory processes at planning and month end, including the impact of intra-group pricing.
Maintain the Commercial process improvement tracker.
Manage one direct report (Analyst, FP&A).