Job Description
About the role:
Take the lead as our Finance Business Manager for the site, overseeing product costing for all stages of manufacturing. In this pivotal role, you'll delve into commercial manufacturing processes, nurture your curiosity about the pharmaceutical industry, solve complex business challenges with collaborative insights, and develop a passion for continuous learning.
Step into a role that empowers you to innovate and make impactful contributions in pharma finance while collaborating in a dynamic and purposeful environment.
How you will contribute:
Reporting to the Site Finance Director and acting as strategic business partner, you will:
- Lead financial planning and analysis activities related to product costing and present the production costs during Month-end close.
- Translate site operations into clear financial outcomes within the costing process.
- Perform financial analyses and scenario planning to assess impacts of investments or operational changes, driving innovative solutions to achieve site goals.
- Act as the primary liaison between the site and the global product costing team.
- Analyse production cost variances, inventory adjustments, and strategic proposals to support decision-making.
- Coordinate cost variance estimation processes to enable accurate forecasting and inventory planning.
- Drive insights using advanced systems like TM1, SAP, and JDE.
- Partner across functions such as Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Quality to refine product costs while fostering collaboration.
- Oversee CAPEX matters and demonstrate expertise in Fixed Assets financial management.
- Ensure external (Statutory) and internal audit readiness and compliance with SOX controls.
What you bring to Takeda:
- Degree in Accounting or Finance; advanced credentials preferred (CMA, CPA, Masters in Finance, MBA).
- Expertise in Pharmaceutical or Biotech Industry, with strong cost accounting experience in manufacturing or supply chain.
- Proven capabilities in predictive analytics and scenario planning.
- Minimum of 7 years in accounting/finance roles with advanced cost accounting proficiency.
- Strong analytical skills, adept at handling complex datasets.
- High systems proficiency (SAP, TM1, JDE, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
- Excellent communication and presentation skills across organizational levels.
- Proven agility and experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Fluency in English and French.
What Takeda can offer you:
We want our employees to succeed in everything they do - at work, at home, and in the community. This is why we offer world-class benefits and access to resources that can support people.
Our sector and the needs of our patients are constantly changing, which is why we emphasize continuous training. We actively support and invest in the development of our employees through a 50/40/10 training model.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, prioritizing wellbeing, career growth, and work-life balance:
- Generous Time Off: 28 days of paid leave.
- Health & Wellbeing: Sport/Fitness abonnement contribution, on site cafeteria, medical annual check-ups starting at age 50, financial support and preventive health care insurance
- support for preventive healthcare.
- Family Support: Paid leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption, along with dedicated spaces for nursing mothers.
- Career Development: Access to a Learning Catalog, language courses, and opportunities for internal and international mobility.
- Transportation & Eco-Benefits: Contributions for public transport, incentives for e-biking, and on-site charging stations for electric vehicles. Regular on-site gardening and massages activities.
More About Us:
With over 650 employees, Takeda Neuchâtel is one of the ten largest employers in the Canton of Neuchâtel, and one of the leading biopharmaceutical production sites in Switzerland. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the site employs a wide range of professionals trained in biotechnologies and their application to industrial production. With over twenty nationalities, Takeda Neuchâtel offers an international, diverse and innovative working environment within a company that is firmly rooted in and committed to its local ecosystem.
Takeda Neuchâtel is certified as a Training Company by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. We train young apprentices in a variety of fields, including laboratory quality control, logistics, IT and biopharmaceutical production.
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.
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Locations
CHE - Neuchatel
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
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For over 240 years, Takeda’s propensity to evolve has driven the next generation of innovation, and as a future-focused organization, we’re continuing to drive forward with endurance in our steadfast pursuit to achieve the best outcomes for our patients in a rapidly changing world. We have been preparing for this period of value creation by investing in data, digital and technology, and we’re proud of our employees and their commitment to turning groundbreaking ideas into life-changing impacts. Since our founding in Japan, integrity and putting patients first have been at the heart of our identity, and we will emerge ready for our future as one of the most trusted and science-driven digital biopharmaceutical companies. Join a team where your innovation impacts lives. Together, we’ll realize improved outcomes by improving data quality, enhancing launch execution and improving the patient journey. You’ll play a critical role in accelerating data collection and increasing accuracy across all parts of the business. Patients across the globe will benefit from access to treatments afforded by greater opportunities and efficiency in our research and development.
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