Finance Business Partner

Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn operational data into critical actions that elevate performance and strengthen our supply of medicines to patients In this role you will partner closely with site leaders to connect financial clarity with manufacturing excellencebringing discipline foresight and challenge that advances both short-term results and long-term value.

You will be part of an agile high-impact team that is integrated with the business. Together we focus on what matters most: reliable supply productivity improvement and smart capital deployment. How will you apply your analytical difficulty to enable swift progress while maintaining oversight and help the site deliver on its ambit

Accountabilities:

• Financial Stewardship and Compliance:Ensure monthly quarterly and annual close is timely and accurate aligned with US GAAP Sarbanes-Oxley and company policies. Maintain standards for documentation and control evidence. Coordinate audit requests and uphold cGMP safety health environment and Code of Conduct requirements to protect the business and maintain trust.

• Management Reporting and Performance Insights: Prepare clear decision-ready management reporting packs (P&L Capex important metrics) with variance analysis; lead site benchmark governance across OEE yield production flow defect rates workforce efficiency and stock turnover to identify drivers risks and opportunities; deliver insights and recommendations that prompt action.

• Planning Budgeting and Forecasting: Coordinate site inputs for annual and quarterly forecasts covering volumes standard expenses manufacturing output costs operational expenditures staffing levels and efficiency; drive alignment across collaborators for Finance approval; support standard cost builds and updates including BOM routing and overhead rate changes aligned to manufacturing models and franchise mentorship.

• Financial Stewardship and Compliance:Costing Inventory and Manufacturing Finance: Perform product costing analysis and variance decomposition (PPV labor/overhead absorption mix yield/scrap); coordinate root-cause action plans; supervise inventory valuation drivers (cycle counts write-offs obsolescence slow-moving items NPI) and support working capital targets to optimize cash and cost.

• Collaborate with ELT and functional leaders to develop arguments and ongoing improvement initiatives. Build financial models and scenarios. Apply analytical rigor and constructive challenge to assumptions to ensure decisions are made quickly with control and quality.

• Capital and Project Portfolio Governance: Coordinate capital spend tracking and forecasting; ensure adherence to capitalization guidelines; prepare status updates and benefits realization analyses; support engineering and operations leaders on project financials risk assessment and value tracking to improve returns from investments.

• Ways of Working and Continuous Improvement: Champion Operational Excellence across finance processes and cross-functional workflows; identify automation opportunities and standardization; implement improvements and adopt Digital and AI transformation; contribute to community initiatives by sharing best practices across the network.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Proven experience delivering timely accurate close aligned with US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley with strong documentation and control evidence.

• Demonstrated ability to prepare management reporting documents (P&L Capex benchmarks) featuring clear variance analysis and actionable insights.

• Hands-on governance of site KPIs including OEE yield throughput scrap labor productivity and inventory turns; tracking drivers and enabling corrective actions.

• Expertise in forward-looking outlooks and rolling forecasts; clear communication of risks mitigations and scenarios to senior leadership.

• End-to-end planning budgeting and forecasting across volumes standard costs COGM OPEX headcount and productivity with stakeholder alignment through Finance.

• Experience building and updating standard costs in accordance with manufacturing frameworks and franchise guidelines encompassing alterations to bill of materials routing sequences and overhead rates.

• Strong partnering with Supply/Operations to align S&OP to financial plans identify plan integrity issues and propose resolutions.

• Deep knowledge of product costing analysis and breakdown of cost variances (PPV labor/overhead absorption mix yield/scrap) with root-cause action planning.

• Proficiency in tracking inventory valuation drivers (cycle counts write-offs obsolescence aged stock NPI) and supporting working capital targets.

• Business partnering with ELT and functional leaders preparing financial models and scenarios for decision-making with appropriate challenge to assumptions.

• Capital spend tracking forecasting and capitalization policy compliance; benefits realization analysis; budgeting hazard evaluation and return on investment tracking.

• Operational Excellence approach; ability to identify automation and standardization opportunities implement improvements and embrace technological and intelligent systems evolution.

• Dedication to cGMP they and standards outlined in the Conduct Guidelines; strong audit coordination capabilities.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience coordinating with global finance services to execute accounting actions required by operations.

• Track record of communicating risks and mitigations to SLT and ELT enabling timely decisions.

• Background in manufacturing finance within complex supply environments including NPI and working capital optimization.

• Proven success driving continuous improvement across cross-functional workflows and sharing standard processes in a broader operations finance community.

• Comfort with scenario-based decision support for capital and operational initiatives including benefits realization and post-implementation review.

Why AstraZeneca:
Here finance is a strategic force powering the business to deliver life-changing medicines. You will join a collaborative digitally savvy team that brings unexpected experts into the same room to unleash bold thinking and make fast well-governed decisions. We blend ambition with support valuing kindness alongside high performance and we connect individual contributionslike improving yield or sharpening investment choicesdirectly to patient impact. With access to new technology and the freedom to own your ideas you can shape how the enterprise runs today and set the foundation for tomorrows growth.

Call to Action:
If youre ready to elevate performance influence decisions and see your finance leadership translate into measurable impact step into this role and create that momentum!

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