Manager, CMO/CDMO Finance Business Partner

CSL Vifor; Bern; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CSL Vifor seeks a Manager, CMO/CDMO Finance Business Partner to drive financial planning, performance management and cost accounting across external manufacturing activities. You will translate contracts into financial insights and partner with R&D, Planning, Procurement and TechOps.

Responsibilities include model development, lifecycle financials, and tracking value from CMO/CDMO initiatives while ensuring accurate reporting and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and performance management across the CMO/CDMO portfolio.
• Interpret commercial and manufacturing agreements from a finance perspective.
• Maintain visibility over pricing, supplier commitments, payments, accruals and true-ups.
• Develop financial models and business cases for supplier selection, tech transfers and lifecycle changes.
• Track savings, cash flow benefits and value realization from CMO/CDMO initiatives.
• Collaborate across Finance and cross-functional teams to provide integrated financial insights.

Skills

Excel skills

SAP

Forecasting

Financial modeling

Cost accounting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business/Economics

Tools

Planning software

Job description

The Manager, CMO/CDMO Finance Business Partner supports Finance across Contract Manufacturing and Contract Development & Manufacturing activities, providing financial planning, performance management, cost accounting, contract analysis, and decision support.

Working closely with CMO/CDMO leadership and cross-functional partners across External Supply, Planning, Procurement, TechOps, R&D, Accounting and Finance, the role helps translate operational plans and contractual arrangements into clear financial insights and business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and performance management across the CMO/CDMO portfolio, including risks, opportunities and management reporting.

• Partner with Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Operations to ensure forecasts reflect production volumes, capacity, inventory, tech transfer timelines, launches and lifecycle assumptions.

• Read and interpret relevant commercial and manufacturing agreements, translating key contractual terms into financial implications, risks and required actions.

• Maintain visibility over pricing mechanisms, supplier commitments, milestones, payment terms, claims, settlements, accruals and true-ups.

• Support virtual plant and external manufacturing cost accounting, including standard costing, inventory valuation, PPV, manufacturing variances and COGS impacts.

• Analyze external manufacturing cost flows, including inventory ownership, tolling versus buy-sell arrangements, intercompany activity and legal-entity implications.

• Develop financial models and business cases supporting supplier selection, sourcing decisions, tech transfers, capacity changes, contract modifications and lifecycle transitions.

• Track and validate savings, cost avoidance, cash flow benefits and value realization from CMO/CDMO initiatives.

• Partner across CMO/CDMO, External Supply Integration, Procurement, TechOps, R&D, Planning, Accounting, Legal and Finance to provide an integrated Finance perspective.

• Improve reporting, analytics, controls and processes, increasing transparency, scalability and reducing dependency on manual or individual knowledge.

What You Bring

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related discipline.

• Relevant experience in Finance Business Partnering, manufacturing finance, supply chain, procurement, cost accounting or related areas.

• Strong financial analysis, forecasting, modeling and business-case capabilities.

• Exposure to product costing, inventory, manufacturing economics and external supply strongly preferred.

• Ability to understand and interpret commercial contracts and supplier agreements from a Finance perspective.

• Experience working across complex, cross-functional and matrix organizations.

• Strong Excel skills; familiarity with SAP, planning, reporting or analytics tools preferred.

Leadership Behaviors

• Business curiosity: seeks to understand operational, contractual and commercial drivers rather than stopping at the numbers.

• Collaborative influence: builds trusted relationships across Finance and non-Finance teams and works effectively through a matrix.

• Ownership and judgment: takes accountability, identifies risks early, and converts complexity into practical actions and decisions.