Finance Business Partner

Are you ready to turn financial insight into decisions that accelerate life-changing medicines to patients? In this role you will be the strategic finance voice at the table, shaping choices that drive growth, efficiency, and long-term value. You will partner closely with senior leaders, bringing clarity through data, analytics, and a rigorous operating model so the business focuses its energy where it matters most. You will join a high-performing, digitally savvy team that powers the enterprise behind the science.
Here, finance is not a back office—it is a catalyst for action.
How will you apply advanced analytics and sharp commercial thinking to guide resource allocation, manage risk, and unlock opportunities at speed?
 
Accountabilities:

Strategic Finance Leadership: Align financial strategy with medium to long-term business priorities at a geographic and functional level, translating ambition into measurable outcomes.
End-to-End Process Ownership: Lead the delivery of core finance processes with uncompromising quality, efficiency, compliance, and governance, coordinating cross-functional teams to a single plan.
Strategic partner to management, supporting key decision‑making through advanced financial insights, presenting and acting as the Finance reference point and catalyst to enable the senior leadership team to have the best possible view to make informed decisions. 
Planning and Performance Management: Drive planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles with shared accountability for forecast accuracy and delivery of business results.
Performance Optimisation and Analytics: Proactively surface risks and opportunities; deploy advanced analytics (Power BI) and Artificial Intelligence solutions to enable fast, data-driven decisions.
Resource and Investment Stewardship: Manage finance resources and the functional budget to maximise capability, return on investment, and sustainable value creation.
Finance Transformation and Operating Model Evolution: Contribute to modernising finance through digital tools, automation, and continuous improvement, enhancing how the function operates.
 
 
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Proven experience in Controlling, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), forecasting, and reporting within complex and well-structured multinational organizations.
- Finance experience gained within industrial and production-driven organizations
- Demonstrated experience in Business Partnering with senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a rigorous, data-driven approach.
- Highly numerate with excellent financial modelling and analytical skills.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional environment.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial insights into business actions.
- Digital mindset, with experience leveraging analytics tools and AI-enabled solutions.

 
Desiderable Skills/Experience:
- Knowledge of the Pharmaceutical industry and its business dynamics.
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
- Advanced expertise in Power BI and other data visualisation tools.

- Professional Finance qualification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA, CPA, ACA, or equivalent).
- Additional specialist Finance qualifications.

We carefully consider all applications, including those from candidates eligible under Italian Protected Categories legislation (Art. 1 and Art. 18, L. 68/99).

We offer:
Salary range: 60.941,60€ - 91.412,40€ per annum 
Contract Level: A1 
CBA: Chemical-Pharmaceutical 
Full-time
Permanent position 
 
Benefits
In addition to the Gross Base Salary, we offer: 
- An annual target bonus governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review
- Participation Bonus governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review
- Wellbeing benefits (welfare, insurance, psychological support, etc.) governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review

Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, internal organizational equity and other relevant factor. 

Why AstraZeneca:
Join a global team where finance and science meet to create real-world impact for patients. You will work alongside bold thinkers and digital innovators, often bringing unexpected teams into the same room to unleash better ideas, faster. We combine clear accountability with genuine empowerment, so your voice is heard and your work moves the enterprise forward. With access to modern technology, advanced data capabilities, and a collaborative culture that values kindness alongside ambition, you will see your recommendations turn into outcomes that matter—today and for the future.
 

We carefully consider all applications, including those from candidates eligible under Italian Protected Categories legislation (Art. 1 and Art. 18, L. 68/99).

Call to Action: Take the lead in shaping the financial strategy that turns bold science into measurable value for patients and the business—make your next career-defining move with us!

Date Posted

Closing Date

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 authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.