Finance Business Partner Lead

**About the role**:
The Finance Business Partner Lead will provide financial business partnering support to Neuchâtel’s Operations Leadership for a period of 12 months. As an agile thought partner, the incumbent of this role will:

- act as Finance business partner lead to Site Function Heads and managers, providing Financial Analysis, business and decision support, while enabling and co-creating innovative solutions to site challenges
- Advise site in key business decisions; debate strategic issues, identify growth opportunities and minimize exposure to the financial plan
- responsible for piloting the Financial Planning, Reporting, Consolidation and Analysis efforts for the site
- Other support to the Finance team is expected with monthly close, analysis responsibilities and ad hoc projects

**How you will contribute**:

- Business partnering with the Site management and other team members to develop and implement action plans to drive performance and productivity
- Partner with Neuchâtel Operations and GMS Consolidations teams for development and reporting of the annual budget, mid and long range plans and shorter term forecasts. The role would coordinate the data input into the FP&A tool as well as support in the presentation preparations and other scenario analyses
- Coordinate monthly reporting templates liaising with Neuchâtel finance and the consolidations finance teams and publish metrics for financial tracking and presentations
- Review monthly manufacturing performance: production volume, core earnings, manufacturing variances, capex, inventory and head count providing clear and transparent explanation of the deviations and highlighting identified risks and opportunities
- Improve forecast accuracy and minimize enterprise risk by adapting predictive outlook. Provide commentary and insights to frame assumptions and context for forecasting. Review Forecast against trends to evaluate need for corrective action plans
- Build business case as Finance Business Partner amongst a cross functional team and perform financial analysis for investments and projects
- Act as back-up for Cost Accounting Lead during absence

**Technical/Functional (LINE) Expertise**:

- In-depth experience in financial analysis and planning; zero-based as well as effective based budgeting, operations accounting, assets, leases, operating expenses and capital expenditure
- Working knowledge of financial planning and forecasting principals and business investment analysis modelling (NPV, IRR, ROI)

**Leadership**:

- Trusted Advisor - engage others in collaborative working relationships. Act as internal consultant who drives results
- Catalyst - ability to influence others to support new ways of working to achieve common goals
- Enterprise mindset - ability to join the dots, think broadly and serve the best interest of the enterprise through own role and development

**Decision-making & Autonomy**:

- Capacity to independently solve complex problems that may impact the site and proceed with objectives and deliverables with mínimal supervision
- Self-starter with strong business acumen, analytical skills and decision making capabilities

**Interaction**:

- Strategic Business partner with ability to work effectively across functions at local, regional and global level
- Ability to establish credibility and acts responsibly to earn confidence, trust, respect of others, while setting priorities and meeting specific deadlines in a constantly changing environment
- Ability to work with confidential information in a professional and ethical manner

**Innovation**:

- Understand digital Finance trends and demonstrate willingness and drive to leverage new technologies to enhance quality of forecasting and predictive modeling

**Complexity**:

- High level of complexity due to the diversity of GMS manufacturing network and the existence of multiple financial systems
- Ability to work in partnership to resolve conficting priorities, tight deadlines and provide financial guidance and impact

**What you bring to Takeda**:

- Education: Completed business studies with focus on management accounting or controlling. CMA, CPA, Master in Finance or MBA education preferred.
- Experience: +7 years of professional experience in a finance / controlling position preferably with exposure to manufacturing and/or supply chain, and experience in the pharmaceutical industry
- Proficiency with MS Excel and Power Point. Solid knowledge of SAP and/or Oracle C3ME + experience with multi-dimensional cubes would be a distinct advantage.
- Languages: Good English and French skills

**What Takeda can offer you**:

- Attractive salaries
- Full accident cover
- Participation in health insurance premiums
- Advantageous retirement plans
- Subsidized meal
- Financial participation in the sports practices of its employees
- Transportation: support in local public transport, free parking, carpooling program
- Takeda Neuchâtel offers to its employees an attractive f