Manager, CMO/CDMO Finance Business Partner

CSL; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CSL Behring is seeking a Manager, CMO/CDMO Finance Business Partner to support Finance across Contract Manufacturing and Contract Development & Manufacturing activities. The role focuses on financial planning, performance management, cost accounting, contract analysis and decision support within a global biotherapeutics setting.

Collaborating with CMO/CDMO leadership and cross-functional partners, you will translate operational plans and contractual terms into actionable financial insights,

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or Economics.
• Experience in Finance Business Partnering with manufacturing/SC.
• Strong Excel and financial modeling capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and performance management across the CMO/CDMO portfolio.
• Partner with Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Operations to align forecasts with production volumes and launches.
• Read and interpret commercial and manufacturing agreements and translate into financial implications.
• Maintain visibility over pricing mechanisms, supplier commitments, milestones, payment terms and accruals.
• Support cost accounting including standard costing, inventory valuation, PPV and COGS impacts.
• Analyze external manufacturing cost flows and intercompany implications.
• Develop financial models and business cases for supplier selection, tech transfers, and lifecycle changes.
• Track savings, cash flow benefits and value realization from initiatives.
• Provide integrated Finance perspective across functions to improve reporting and controls.
• Aim to increase transparency and reduce reliance on manual knowledge.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Modeling

Cost accounting

Education

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

Tools

SAP

Planning tools

Reporting tools

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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You Belong at CSL

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.

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