Finance Business Partner Lead

Takeda; Lexington (MA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda in Lexington, MA seeks a Finance Business Partner Lead to support site finance functions, budgeting, forecasting, and monthly close while ensuring SOX/IFRS compliance. You will partner with manufacturing, supply chain, QA, and R&D to set product costs, analyze deviations, and drive process improvements.

The role requires 7+ years in finance/controlling, strong ERP/Excel skills, and ability to influence cross-functional teams. This is a full-time on-site position in Lexington.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in a finance/controlling position.
• Experience in manufacturing or supply chain, and in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CMA/CPA/Master’s preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and data visualization tools.
• Strong knowledge of ERP workflows in production/manufacturing (SAP, Oracle, or similar).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with site management and cross-functional teams to drive performance.
• Lead cost accounting and product costing with site management and departments.
• Partner with FP&A for annual budget, long-range plans, and forecasts.
• Coordinate monthly reporting templates with finance teams.
• Review monthly performance and explain deviations and risks.
• Improve forecast accuracy and provide insights to frame assumptions.
• Advise on key business decisions and growth opportunities.
• Support monthly close, ad-hoc projects, and internal consulting efforts.

Skills

Excel

Financial planning tools

Data visualization

ERP workflows

Financial analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting

CMA/CPA or Master’s degree preferred

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Job Description:

Title Finance Business Partner Lead:

Location Lexington, MA:

About the role:

As the Finance Business Partner Manager, you will work as an agile thought partner and a trusted advisor to support the Finance Business Partner(s), Site Function Heads and managers in financial planning, forecasting, and analysis, as well as monthly close processes, while ensuring compliance with SOX, IFRS, and more. Support continuous improvement of processes, controls, and systems/tools. You will work with multiple departments, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality and R&D to help set up and determine the product costs with the responsibility to analyze, reconcile, and report out.

How will you contribute:

• Collaborate with the Site management and cross-functional teams (manufacturing, quality, engineering, etc.) to develop and implement action plans that drive performance and productivity.
• Lead Cost Accounting and Product Costing partnering with the Site management, cross-functional teams, and department (manufacturing, supply chain, R&D, etc.)
• Partner with MA Biologics Operations and GSQ FP&A teams for development and reporting of the annual budget, mid and long-range plans and shorter-term forecasts. Coordinate the data input into the FP&A tool and support in the presentation preparations and other scenario analyses.
• Coordinate monthly reporting templates partnering with MA Biologics finance and the consolidations finance teams.
• Review monthly financial performance with business partners and contribute to Site cost center review providing clear and transparent explanation of the deviations and highlighting identified risks and opportunities.
• Improve forecast accuracy and minimize enterprise risk by adapting predictive outlook. Provide commentary and insights to frame assumptions and context for forecasting. Review Forecast against trends to evaluate need for corrective action plans.
• Advise site in key business decisions; debate strategic issues, identify growth opportunities, and minimize exposure to the financial plan.
• Pilot the Financial Planning, Reporting, Consolidation and Analysis efforts for the site.
• Other support for the Finance team is expected with monthly close, analysis responsibilities and ad‑hoc projects.
• Be an internal consultant who collaborates and drives results and support new ways of working to achieve common goals, work with external partners (auditors, suppliers) and across functions locally, regionally, and at the global level.
• Troubleshoot complex financial problems that may impact the site and proceed with solutions
• Understand digital finance trends and demonstrate willingness and drive to use new technologies to enhance quality of forecasting and predictive modeling.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CMA, CPA, Master’s degree preferred.
• 7+ years of professional experience in a finance / controlling position preferably with exposure to manufacturing or supply chain, and experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, financial planning tools, and data visualization platforms.
• Strong knowledge of technical ERP workflows in production/manufacturing (SAP, Oracle, or similar systems).
• Working knowledge of financial analysis, planning and forecasting principals and business investment analysis modeling (NPV, IRR, Return on investment, zero‑based budgeting, operations accounting, assets, leases, operating expenses and capital expenditure).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including written, verbal, and presentation communication and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary:

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:

USA - MA - Lexington - BIO OPS

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$154,400.00 - $242,550.00

Benefits:

For information about our benefits, please click here.

EEO Statement:

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations:

USA - MA - Lexington - BIO OPS

Worker Type:

Employee

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Job Exempt:

Yes

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