Finance Business Partner Manager
Takeda
Summary
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. You will provide 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.
Job description
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. You will provide 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
- Administer semi-annual financial planning processes and provide supporting analyses to the Finance Business Partner(s), Site Function Heads and managers.
- Assist in developing value-added financial models and analytical tools to support function objectives and projects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively solve discrepancies, and with local and regional Finance teams to develop detailed explanation for variances between actual and plan.
- Support the development, deployment and use of the financial planning system and financial models.
- Manage the monthly financial close process and collaborate with Takeda Business Solutions to initiate entries on an ongoing basis.
- Perform variance analysis such as manufacturing variances, cost revaluation, and work order variances.
- Prepare and distribute monthly reporting packages and analyses. Identify opportunities for streamlining and enhancement.
- Educate functional management on the use of reporting tools and Finance concept.
- Perform product costing analysis and support 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 assets, asset tagging and verification, project support and controlling needs for strategic capital projects.
- Ensure SOX controls compliance and audit support where required.
- Assist with and ensure successful internal and external audits.
- Designated as super user on TM1 and SAP applications.
What you bring to Takeda
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting, master’s or CPA preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, decision analytics, or related finance roles.
- Experience in Pharmaceutical/ Biotech industry, including cost accounting experience in operations.
- Analytical software skills (TM1, SAP, Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Office Suite –Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including written, verbal, and presentation communication and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Requirements
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
- 5+ years of experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, decision analytics, or related finance roles
- Experience in Pharmaceutical/ Biotech industry, including cost accounting experience in operations
- Analytical software skills (TM1, SAP, Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Office Suite –Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access)
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including written, verbal, and presentation communication and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
Company overview
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company founded in 1781 and incorporated in 1925. As one of the world's top 20 largest pharmaceutical companies by revenue and the third largest in Asia, Takeda specializes in developing and commercializing innovative medicines across several therapeutic areas including oncology, rare diseases, neuroscience, gastroenterology, plasma-derived therapies, and vaccines. With approximately 49,095 employees globally, the company operates research and development centers, manufacturing facilities, and commercial operations across 39 U.S. states and numerous countries worldwide. Takeda maintains dual headquarters in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, with significant operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it serves as the largest life sciences employer in the state. The company's patient-focused approach is guided by its Takeda-ism values of Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance, emphasizing a commitment to delivering life-transforming treatments while advancing sustainable healthcare solutions. Takeda's extensive portfolio includes both innovative biologics and small molecule drugs, supported by strategic acquisitions and partnerships that have expanded its capabilities in areas such as immuno-oncology and rare disease treatments.