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Takeda Pharmaceuticals Finance Business Partner in Toronto, Ontario
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Job Description
ROLE OBJECTIVE
The Finance Business Partner is responsible for providing high quality financial insight, reporting, analysis and supporting Business units and functions and ensuring integrity of Business unit & function financials.
Be an agile thought partner to Business providing financial support on all matters with a focus on:
Accuracy & integrity of Business Unit financials.
Decision support: assure meaningful management reporting combined with proactive and strategic input to help drive performance
Financial analysis and modeling: identify value drivers and risks & opportunities, model P&L development for budgeting and reforecasts
Advise colleagues regarding financial processes & systems
Provide support and advice in areas of compliance with financial/ethical requirements
Maintain a growth mindset and challenge the status quo, exchange best practices with peers within Takeda.
Collaborate on regional/global level for advancement of reporting and planning processes and systems
ACCOUNTABLITIES
Partners with Business Units / Franchises and/or other Departments as a Trusted Advisor in assessing business opportunities and risks, in developing and executing business and financial strategy, deciding upon and securing proper resource allocation.
Establishing and execute monthly financial review process for business units, analysing material financial variances vs Plan and expected full-year impacts
Providing strategic financial input and leadership to assigned BUs to drive business performance and ensure appropriate return on investment.
Ensure integrity of Takeda financials with full P&L ownership of assigned BU. Establish robust processes to ensure financial accurately.
Planning and Preparation of the periodic planning exercises in coordination with FP&A lead
Focusing on adding value for the business by influencing decisions and identifying opportunities to invest, saving cost, avoiding/ mitigating risks, forecasting future business results, establishing and interpreting leading indicators
Partners with Global/Regional stakeholders and is part of Global/Regional projects rollouts and adopting best practices
Act as a Solution Architect, with deep understanding of how our business works and its interdependencies, inspiring to co-create innovative solutions enabling financial results
Establishes and maintains strong controls and compliance practices
Assists the Financial Controller and the Financial Compliance & Controls Lead in designing and monitoring appropriate controls. This role also involves the development of SOPs and operating instructions as necessary.
KEY COUNTERPARTS
Finance Director; FP&A Lead, other Finance Business Partners; Financial Controller; Financial Compliance & Controls Lead
Business Unit / Department Heads
Supply Chain and Data & Insights team
EUCAN Regional Finance and Franchise teams
IDEAL BACKGROUND
Bachelor’s degree with major in finance/accounting/economics or other related fields
CPA or similar designation preferred
5-7 years finance FP&A/FBP experience in a multinational set-up, with accounting familiarity and technical fundamentals of GAAP, IFRS
Pharma / Healthcare experience a plus
Big 4 audit experience a plus
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Strong analytical and quantitative thinking paired with Excel modelling skills and high level of accuracy and attention to detail
Strong written and oral communication skills, and ability to clearly present financial data in reports distributed to Local & regional stakeholders, but also to non-Finance stakeholders
Ability to challenge performance, drive fact-based business decisions, learning and solution-oriented enterprise mindset
Catalysing ongoing improvements through persuasion and engagement of others
Excellent business acumen, ability to see the big picture while having drive to understand all relevant details
Comfortable in presentations and communication with all levels of the organization
Ability to build outstanding relationships based on trust and through delivering on commitments.
Ability to operate as a flexible team player
Proven project management skills
Familiarity with financial software, ERP systems, and data visualization tools such as SAP, HFM, TM1 or Power BI. Keeping abreast of emerging digital technologies that can optimize financial processes.
Proficiency with MS Office including Power BI
Locations
Toronto, Canada
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
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