Country Finance Business Partner

The role broadly includes the following key components:

• Business Strategy & Decision Support: Supporting key business & investment decisions through ensuring dynamic resource allocation, targeted at value-creating opportunities, advising and guiding senior business leaders, using an excellent knowledge of customer requirements, balanced with an understanding of internal culture and climate.
• Business Performance: Driving financial performance and business activity, to deliver and communicate performance and business planning reports, and to advise senior management on key drivers.
• Continuous Improvement, Governance and Coaching: Leading continuous improvement in Finance processes and capabilities and to lead financial risk management and financial governance in area of accountability
• Business Strategy & Decision Support: Proactively understanding future financial information needs to create efficient solutions, guiding teams through difficult decisions, negotiating for positive outcomes, and participating in strategic planning for significant R&D business decisions such as strategic change programs and investment propositions.
• Business Performance: Shared accountability for forecast accuracy, developing reliable forecasts, leading financial planning, identifying risks, driving efficiencies, enhancing business results through commercial acumen, managing post-deal agreements, preparing key presentations, collaborating with managers for cost planning, ensuring timely collections, and supporting audits and tax filings.
• Continuous Improvement, Governance and Coaching: Initiating improvements in finance practices, communicating compliance standards effectively to non-specialists, leading proactive risk management, and enhancing both the professional capability of the finance team and the financial understanding of non-finance managers.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.