Academic Accounting Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago

Old Toronto, Canada Takeda Pharmaceuticals Full time

Job Description

ROLE OBJECTIVE

  • The Financial Business Partner is responsible for providing high-quality financial insights, reporting, and analysis to support business units and functions, ensuring the integrity of business unit and function financials.
  • As a trusted advisor, the Financial Business Partner will provide financial support on all matters, focusing on accuracy and integrity of business unit financials, decision support, financial analysis and modeling, and compliance with financial and ethical requirements.

Major Accountabilities

  • Partner with business units and departments as a trusted advisor to assess business opportunities and risks, develop and execute business and financial strategies, and secure proper resource allocation.
  • Establish and execute monthly financial review processes for business units, analyzing material financial variances versus plan and expected full-year impacts.
  • Provide strategic financial input and leadership to assigned business units to drive business performance and ensure appropriate return on investment.
  • Plan and prepare periodic planning exercises in coordination with the FP&A lead.
  • Foster a culture of adding value for the business by influencing decisions, identifying opportunities to invest, save costs, avoid or mitigate risks, forecast future business results, and establish and interpret leading indicators.
  • Partner with global and regional stakeholders and participate in global and regional project rollouts and adopting best practices.
  • Act as a solution architect, inspiring to co-create innovative solutions enabling financial results.
  • Establish and maintain strong controls and compliance practices.
  • Support the Financial Controller and Finance Compliance Lead in liaising with Finance Service Centers in designing, assigning, and monitoring relevant controls, securing accountability in assigned units where applicable, including contributing or developing unit-specific SOPs/operating instructions where necessary.
  • Implement and design analytics to support proper monitoring of business management in the spirit of PTRB (Patients, Trust, Reputation, and Business).

Key Counterparts

  • Finance Director, FP&A Lead, other Finance Business Partners, Financial Compliance and Controls Lead.
  • Business Unit/Department Heads.
  • Supply Chain and Data and Insights team.
  • EUCAN Regional Finance and Franchise teams.

IDEAL BACKGROUND

  • Bachelor's degree with a major in finance/accounting/economics or other related fields.
  • 5-7 years of finance FP&A/FBP experience in a multinational setup, with accounting familiarity and technical fundamentals of GAAP, IFRS.
  • Big 4 audit experience a plus.

SKILL AND COMPETENCIES

  • Strong analytical and quantitative thinking paired with Excel modeling skills and a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, and the ability to clearly present financial data in reports distributed to local and regional stakeholders, but also to non-finance stakeholders.
  • Ability to challenge performance, drive fact-based business decisions, learning, and solution-oriented enterprise mindset.
  • Excellent business acumen, ability to see the big picture while having drive to understand all relevant details.
  • 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, IBM Cognos, Concur, Ariba, 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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