AstraZeneca Looking for Senior Manager, Finance Business Partner – Oncology at Mississauga, ON Full Time

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The Senior Finance Manager, Business Partner, plays a critical role on the Oncology Canada Finance and Forecasting team, forming relationships and delivering strategic finance decision-making in a sophisticated and dynamic environment.

The incumbent will provide improved and insightful financial and business analysis to support operational initiatives, partner and engage with senior leaders, while identifying risks and opportunities AstraZeneca.

This role includes creating and delivering on strategic financial initiatives whilst engaging through collaboration with colleagues across a cross-functional team, across various sales, marketing and medical functions. The

The role reports to the Director of Finance, Business Partner and will be a key advisor to members of the Oncology Canada Leadership Team.

The focus for this role is:

• Lead and deliver financial oversight for the assigned Therapeutic Area (Franchise) in support to the Business unit, whilst demonstrating strong discernment and developing significant relationships.
• Develop deep best-practice knowledge within your business area and be accountable for business decision outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working proactively with Business Unit Partners to understand future financial information
• Negotiating and communicating optimally across teams and with external parties to achieve a positive outcome.
• Being actively involved in the review and development of short & long term strategy
• Developing robust financial forecasts & models to support the priorities of the unit
• Works with the business to understand problems and how to best prioritize projects
• Challenges business partner perspective (where appropriate), grounded in facts and data
• Member of Therapeutic Area Leadership Team (TALT)
• Business Performance
• Collaborate within team and business partners to supervise spend and articulate financial impact of risks and/or opportunities arising from variances within the budget
• Understand brand assumptions (price, competitor activity, access/regulatory changes) and initiatives and help build the brand strategic plan by challenging the business and providing the financial point of view
• Understand competitor positions and products to analyze and question / challenge budget submissions for sales and costs to ensure submissions are accurate, justifiable and sound
• Highlighting sensitivities & risks and delivering timely, accurate and granular reporting and robust commentary of the TA’s performance, linking business drivers to actual spend and forecast.
• Proactively partnering to drive cost excellence through lean leadership, efficiencies along with simplification and standardization.
• Assist in the delivery of robust and thorough financial analysis of risks and benefits for major business initiatives to help support data driven decision making.
• Deliver an eye for business and financial education and awareness to teams through proactive engagement and collaboration.
• Lead financial performance reviews for area of responsibility for key business and Finance review meetings.
• Engaging with Finance Director to improve and/or simply working practices/processes
• Partner with alliance partner companies to delivery mid-term strategic plans, report on monthly/quarterly performance and ensure accuracy of monthly/quarterly financial accounting transactions.

Traits of a successful candidate:

• Optimally communicates the story behind the numbers in terms business partners understand
• Proactively suggests business problems to address to COE
• Makes practical recommendations based on analysis
• Understands how different collaborators needs differs
• Asks questions that efficiently lead to identification of root cause of problems
• Develops practical and acceptable compromises when negotiating
• Optimally prioritizes business problems based on vitality and relevance
• Clarifies decision trade-offs to internal customers
• Redirect poor business assumptions
• Discusses financial performance in terms of the financial implications and business activities
• Generate multiple options to solve a problem and identifies the most effective solution
• Identify current and future critical decision points based on expert knowledge and experience.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or any other relevant Business subject area.
• 8+ years dynamic experience in finance and/or accounting with a minimum of 3 years in a CPG/Pharmaceutical environment (or equivalent)
• Extensive experience in fostering and maintaining internal team member relationships and management
• Ability to engage cross-functional working groups and teams
• Experienced in partnering with other functions to achieve success.
• Strong planning and systematic thinking, including project management and budgeting
• Credibility at the most senior executive levels
• Ability to explain and provide context around statistical methodology
• Ability to build partnerships, influence decisions, work in a collaborative style
• Takes initiative and performs independently
• Demonstrates willingness to change opinion when presented with new or contrary information

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