Sr. Financial Analyst- Neuroscience Business Unit (NSBU)

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Job Description
Sr. Financial Analyst- Neuroscience Business Unit (NSBU)
Takeda Pharmaceutical
Cambridge, MA
About the role:
Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Sr. Financial Analyst located in Cambridge, MA. As the Sr. Financial Analyst, will provide financial business partnering to the Neuroscience Business Unit (NSBU). The role offers an exciting opportunity for a detailed, intellectually curious, and analytical minded candidate with experience dealing with ambiguity, and key customers include NSBU Finance team and members of the NSBU Commercial team.
How you will contribute:
Manage aspects of the financial close, the monthly re-forecast and the annual budget and long range plan.

• For monthly and quarterly reporting:
  
  • Analyze the accuracy of financial results, determine variance drivers, and write performance commentary.
  • Understand variances of channel partners purchases vs. forecast and impacts of mix on gross price.
  • Provide the appropriate analysis to support the gross-to-net reporting.
  • Report and provide insight into stocking and destocking impacts vs. forecasts, plan and prior year (PY).
  • Monthly demand and days on hand (DOH) partner level reporting, including drivers of demand and impacts to forecasts.
• For the forecast, budget, and long-range plan:
  
  • Partner with Forecasting on the gross sales forecast by validating and challenging market assumptions.
  • Monitor relevant key performance indicators (KPIs), trends and events impacting the business and incorporate this information into the forecast.
  • Collaborate with the Market Access team to evaluate the financial implications of contracting strategies and their impact on the plan, including mix impacts driving gross price impacts.
  • Calculate gross-to-net forecasts for product portfolio with insights from trends and discussion with finance ops team.
  • Identify risks and opportunities to the plan.
• Manage relationships with the following teams to ensure alignment with Hematology finance requirements:
  
  • Finance Operations - provide the appropriate analysis to support the gross-to-net reporting.
  • Market Access Team - collaborate to evaluate the financial implications of contracting strategies and their impact on the plan and forecast.
  • Forecasting Team - understand all aspects of the revenue forecast and ensure timelines are met.
  • Marketing - provide appropriate finance support to prepare budget and forecast and to monitor performance against plan.
• Decision support activities across the NSBU portfolio:
  
  • Partner with marketing leads to understand financial impacts.
  • Develop detailed financial analyses, including profitability, pricing and cost optimization.
  • Work with large amounts of data to develop and enhance complex financial models, such as account/segment level channel models to improve forecasting accuracy and drive new business insights.
  • Provide and implement a framework to drive fact-based decisions. Continuously improve and streamline analytics processes.
  • Develop financial models and sensitivity analyses.
  • Drive efficiencies across NSBU Finance by identifying process simplification and automation opportunities.
  • Collaborate with Market Access to understand and model impacts of contracting and mix and price impacts.
• Business partnership with commercial OPEX management and support
  
  • Manage operational expense budget and provide visibility to financial targets.
  • Support and influence key operational and strategic decisions.
  • Improve the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance.
  • Establish partnerships and maintain strong relationships with all senior level managers and their teams.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in an accounting/financial discipline is required
• 3+ years of working experience
• Experience with management reporting, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting is required
• Experience in dealing with people with a keen focus on customer service is required
• Working as part of a team is required
• Occasional short-term travel
• Experience working in a matrix organization preferred
• Experience working in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise with global business partners and the facility to explain financial concepts to the non-financial manager
• Objective, critical thinking with focus on process improvements and simplification
• Self-confidence, initiative and ability to work independently in order to meet deadlines
• Advanced technical skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including Excel modeling, and experience creating profession presentations in PowerPoint is required
• Hyperion Financial Management and Smartview / Essbase and SAP knowledge preferred
• Should have a strong understanding of accounting and finance principles, financial modeling
• Ability to work well in a pressured, deadline focused, small, committed team environment and at times with limited supervision
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work on multiple projects and assignments
• Effective communication skills with colleagues at all levels and departments of the business, especially with non-financially oriented business partners
• Strong financial analysis, interpretation and interpersonal skills
• Able to contribute ideas and implement improvements
• Ensure high standards of accuracy and consistency of data, attention to detail and efficiency
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently, take initiative and complete tasks to deadlines
• A demonstrated customer service focus will be another critical success factor for this position
• Must be open and flexible to the changing environment

More about us:
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.
Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
This position is currently classified as "hybrid" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.
Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.
For Location:
USA - MA - Cambridge - Kendall Square - 500
U.S. Base Salary Range:
84,000.00 - 132,000.00
The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
EEO Statement
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Locations
USA - MA - Cambridge - Kendall Square - 500
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Job Exempt
Yes