Senior Financial Analyst

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Job Description

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support the Finance Business Partner Lead and Cost Accounting Lead at our site. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor and agile thought partner, driving key financial initiatives.

How you will contribute:

• Partner with the Finance Business Partner Lead on financial planning, forecasting, analysis, and monthly close processes.
• Collaborate with the Cost Accounting Lead to update product costs, conduct cost analysis, ensure compliance with SOX and IFRS, and enhance processes, controls, and systems/tools
• Administer semi-annual financial planning processes and provide supporting analyses to the Finance Business Partner Lead
• Assist in developing simple value-added financial models and analytical tools to support function objectives and projects
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively problem-solve discrepancies (TBS, Site Departments, Regional Finance team); main contact with TBS for all Inventory related queries, discrepancy alleviations
• Support the development, deployment and use of the financial planning system and financial models and become key user for various Finance systems
• Manage the monthly financial close process and collaborate with Takeda Business Solutions to initiate entries on an ongoing basis
• Collaborate with the pre-defined Business partners to develop detailed explanation for variances between actual and plan
• Prepare and distribute monthly reporting packages and analyses. Identify opportunities for automation, streamlining and enhancement
• Educate functional management on the use of reporting tools and Finance concept
• Support Cost Accounting Lead to perform product costing analysis including updating product costs for the annual cost change and monthly analysis of work order variances and costing for new products where required
• Support local fixed asset, asset tagging and verification, and project support where required
• Ensuring SOX controls compliance and audit support where required
Other unexpected support linked to ad hoc projects

What you bring to Takeda:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting
• Min of 5 years of overall business experience, including internships in accounting, financial planning or decision analytics roles preferred
• Experience in Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry, including cost accounting experience in operations
• Strong analytical and computer software skills (TM1, SAP, Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Office, Suite –Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, C3ME)
• Experience in identifying and implementing process improvements affecting other stakeholders
• Experience in working with all levels and disciplines of people within a large organization
• Highly and solid analytical skills with strong ability to analyze and understand large amounts of data
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) and the ability to persuasively convey critical elements of complex issues
• Good English and French Skills
• Strong knowledge in financial planning and business investment analysis modeling (NPV, ROI)
• Experience with production or cost accounting including performing standard costing and manufacturing variance analysis

What Takeda can offer you:

We want our employees to succeed in everything they do – at work, at home, and in the community. This is why we offer world-class benefits and access to resources that can support people.

Our sector and the needs of our patients are constantly changing, which is why we emphasize continuous training. We actively support and invest in the development of our employees through a 50/40/10 training model.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, prioritizing wellbeing, career growth, and work-life balance:

• Generous Time Off: 28 days of paid.
• Health & Wellbeing: Sport/Fitness abonnement contribution, on site cafeteria, medical annual check-ups starting at age 50, financial support and preventive health care insurance
• support for preventive healthcare.
• Family Support: Paid leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption, along with dedicated spaces for nursing mothers.
• Career Development: Access to a Learning Catalog, language courses, and opportunities for internal and international mobility.
• Transportation & Eco-Benefits: Contributions for public transport, incentives for e-biking, and on-site charging stations for electric vehicles. Regular on-site gardening and massages activities.

Important Considerations:

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to create quality products and we aim to create a safe environment for our team members. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product or putting anyone at the site in harm's way. In this role, you may:

• Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.
• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.
• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers that may require respiratory protection.

More about us:

With over 650 employees, Takeda Neuchâtel is one of the ten largest employers in the Canton of Neuchâtel, and one of the leading biopharmaceutical production sites in Switzerland. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the site employs a wide range of professionals trained in biotechnologies and their application to industrial production. With over twenty nationalities, Takeda Neuchâtel offers an international, diverse and innovative working environment within a company that is firmly rooted in and committed to its local ecosystem.

Takeda Neuchâtel is certified as a Training Company by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. We train young apprentices in a variety of fields, including laboratory quality control, logistics, IT and biopharmaceutical production.

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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