Finance Director, CVRM Brands
AstraZeneca
Summary
As Finance Director, CVRM Brands, you will be the strategic finance partner behind high-impact commercial decisions. You will turn financial, market, and performance insight into clear choices on growth, investment, and resource allocation across an evolving portfolio of brands and lifecycle stages.
Job description
The Opportunity
As Finance Director, CVRM Brands, you will be the strategic finance partner behind high-impact commercial decisions. You will turn financial, market, and performance insight into clear choices on growth, investment, and resource allocation across an evolving portfolio of brands and lifecycle stages.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, CVRM, you will have visibility with senior leaders and the opportunity to influence strategy in a fast-moving therapeutic area. This role is ideal for a commercially minded finance leader who brings constructive challenges, creates alignment, and wants their insight to shape business performance.
What You'll Do
- Shape commercial strategy: Advise brand and cross-functional leaders on growth, launch, lifecycle, and portfolio decisions.
- Lead planning and performance: Direct sales and expense forecasting, scenario planning, and performance analysis; challenge assumptions and recommend action on risks and opportunities.
- Guide investment decisions: Build business cases and influence resource choices across rebates, lifecycle opportunities, capabilities, and organizational needs.
- Influence senior leaders: Distill complex financial and commercial information into compelling recommendations, briefings, and forward-looking perspectives.
- Strengthen execution and stewardship: Set financial goals, support business-planning cycles, and maintain discipline across reporting, controls, SOX 404 compliance, and risk management.
- Build better ways of working: Anticipate information needs and create scalable analytics, processes, and decision-support solutions.
Essential Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- 5+ years of progressive finance experience in a complex commercial organization, including partnership with senior leaders.
- Strong experience in FP&A, forecasting, performance management, investment evaluation, financial modeling, and governance.
- Commercial acumen and the ability to connect financial insight with business strategy.
- Ability to synthesize complexity into clear, decision-oriented recommendations and executive presentations.
- Executive presence, sound judgment, and a track record of influencing across functions without direct authority.
- Learning agility, ownership, and the ability to navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced business or finance qualification.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or another complex commercial industry.
- Knowledge of CVRM and experience supporting brand, portfolio, or commercial Finance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- 5+ years of progressive finance experience in a complex commercial organization, including partnership with senior leaders.
- Strong experience in FP&A, forecasting, performance management, investment evaluation, financial modeling, and governance.
- Commercial acumen and the ability to connect financial insight with business strategy.
- Ability to synthesize complexity into clear, decision-oriented recommendations and executive presentations.
- Executive presence, sound judgment, and a track record of influencing across functions without direct authority.
- Learning agility, ownership, and the ability to navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and deadlines.
- MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced business or finance qualification.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or another complex commercial industry.
- Knowledge of CVRM and experience supporting brand, portfolio, or commercial Finance.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Paid vacation
- Paid holidays
- Paid leaves
- Medical insurance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term incentive bonus
- Equity-based long-term incentive program
Company overview
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused pharmaceutical company dedicated to accelerating the delivery of life-changing medicines that create enduring value for patients, society, and shareholders. With a workforce of over 94,300 employees worldwide, the company operates across three core therapy areas: Oncology, BioPharmaceuticals (including Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, Respiratory & Immunology), and Rare Disease. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, AstraZeneca maintains strategic R&D centers in Cambridge, Gaithersburg (US), Boston (US), Gothenburg (Sweden), Shanghai, and Beijing. The company generated $54.1 billion in total revenue in 2024 and invested $13.6 billion in scientific research and development. AstraZeneca's bold aspiration is to be pioneers in science, lead in disease areas, and transform patient outcomes, with a goal to launch 20 new medicines and achieve $80 billion in total revenue by 2030. The company is recognized for its commitment to sustainability, health equity, and creating an inclusive work environment where diverse perspectives drive innovation.