Manager, CMO/CDMO Finance Business Partner

CSL Plasma Inc.; Bern; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CSL Plasma Inc. is seeking a Manager, CMO/CDMO Finance Business Partner to provide financial planning, performance management, and cost accounting across contract manufacturing and development activities.

You will translate contracts into financial implications and partner with multiple functions to drive informed business decisions. The role requires strong Excel skills, experience with SAP, and the ability to model complex scenarios.

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related discipline.
• Relevant experience in Finance Business Partnering, manufacturing finance, supply chain or cost accounting.
• Strong financial analysis, forecasting, modeling and business-case capabilities.
• Exposure to product costing, inventory and external supply advantageous.
• Ability to interpret contracts and supplier agreements from a Finance perspective.

Responsibilities

• Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and performance management across CMO/CDMO portfolio.
• Partner with planning and operations to reflect forecasts in production volumes and lifecycle assumptions.
• Interpret contracts to identify financial implications, risks and actions.
• Maintain visibility over pricing, supplier commitments, milestones, terms and settlements.
• Support cost accounting, including standard costing, inventory valuation and COGS impacts.
• Analyze cost flows, tolling vs buy-sell arrangements, intercompany activity and legal-entity implications.
• Develop financial models and business cases for supplier selection, tech transfers and lifecycle changes.
• Track savings, cost avoidance and cash flow benefits from initiatives.
• Collaborate across Finance, Legal and Ops to provide integrated financial perspective.

Skills

Financial planning

Forecasting

Cost accounting

Contract analysis

Advanced Excel

SAP familiarity

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Finance/Accounting

Tools

SAP

Planning tools

Excel

Analytics platforms

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.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives. CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

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At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future. To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging.

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