Finance Business Partner

Takeda Pharmaceuticals; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking a Finance Business Partner to provide high-quality financial insights, reporting, and analysis. This role involves collaborating with business units to drive performance, ensuring financial integrity, and supporting strategic decision-making. Ideal candidates will have a strong finance background, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to communicate effectively across various levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years finance FP&A / FBP experience in a multinational setup.
• Familiarity with GAAP, IFRS, and financial software.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial insights and analysis to business units.
• Ensure integrity of financials with full P&L ownership.
• Collaborate on regional/global financial processes.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Communication

Business Acumen

Team Player

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics

Tools

SAP

Power BI

MS Office

Job description

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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.

Major accountabilities

• 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 executing 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 accuracy.
• 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.
• Supports Financial controller, Finance compliance lead in liaising with Finance Service Centers in designing, assigning and monitoring relevant controls, securing accountability also in assigned Units where applicable, including contributing or developing Units-specific SOPs / Operating instructions where necessary.
• Implements and / or designs and implements analytics in support of proper monitoring of business management in full spirit of PTRB (Patients, Trust, Reputation and Business).

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.
• 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.

SKILL 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.
• 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.

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