Finance Enterprise Partner

Roche Pharmaceuticals

The Role

A Finance Enterprise Partner (FEP) leverages the broad strategic financial and analytical expertise and perspective to proactively provide insights, set objectives and drive initiatives that will ensure a sustainable business. The FEP is a strategic thinker with excellent business acumen who can leverage this deep understanding of financials to guide decision-making, provide analytical insight and business judgment to support strategic and tactical initiatives across the affiliate.

As part of the broader Finance Community, the FEP will be committed to drive outcomes on an above country level.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Main Responsibilities

• Insights & Analytics

• Models business scenarios and tracks performance metrics to enable the organization to make strategic and sound financial decisions.

• Proactively provides insights by leveraging internal and external sources of information

• Sets objectives and drives initiatives to ensure a sustainable business.

• Co-creates pricing strategies to create sustainable business cases.

• Uses predictive and statistical modeling techniques to solve challenges, uncover opportunities and develop solutions.

• Identifies and evaluates opportunities and develops insightful recommendations on strategic direction.

• Acts as an industry analyst to surface key industry trends.

• Business Planning & Reporting

• Leading regular updates of the Business Plan (OPEX & Sales) in close collaboration with Disease Area Teams

• Drives resource allocation process & decisions, both short and long term to maximize value to patients, partners and Roche

• Oversee the financial performance of the affiliate and engage in timely business discussions, reflecting any updates into the Business Plan

• Perform financial month end close activities as required

• Partnering with Internal and External Stakeholders

• Acts as a proactive and critical thought partner to the business teams (e.g. Disease Area Teams) in shaping the long-term direction of Roche and by contributing to short-term outcomes.

• Partners and negotiates with external stakeholders (e.g. Fintech, Insurance, Healthcare Start-ups) together with business stakeholders; co-creates new innovative business models that enable new opportunities and drive growth.

• Compliance

• Is aware of, adheres to, actively ensures and monitors compliance with all relevant rules and regulations

Additional Responsibilities:

• Drives outcomes by joining above country initiatives for APAC / Global Finance.

• Identify, analyze and drive continuous process improvements based on prioritization and relevance to business needs.

• Lead process harmonization, simplification and standardization by leveraging the process excellence network as well as automation, digitization and digitalization of processes.

• Involved in cross-functional projects as Finance representative.

• Assist in development of company culture; encourage open communication and liaison across the affiliate and broader Roche network.

• Adhere to company (both local and global) policies and procedures at all times, including Health & Safety requirements.

• Perform other duties/projects as required.

Competencies 

Job Specific Competencies:

• Understanding of Corporate Finance, Financial Modelling, Insights Collection & Trend Prognosis.

• Understanding of data modeling to guide decision-making, solve problems, provide analytical insight and business judgment to support strategic and tactical initiatives across the affiliate.

• Demonstrated problem-solving ability, combined with effective business judgment and ability to communicate clearly and influence teams.

• Organized, strategically focused, detail-oriented, and able to deal with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment.

• Demonstrated business acumen and be dedicated to solving business challenges

• Leadership skills

• Stays abreast of trends in the external environment that could impact the business currently and in the future

• Integrates multiple streams of information into a coherent strategy

Experience & Knowledge

• Undergraduate degree in Business/Commerce, Finance or Economics (minimum)

• MBA / Post Graduate in either Finance or Business preferred

• Experience in working in an agile / networked organization is a plus

• Excellence in SAP