At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.
The PositionFinance Business Partner- Lead Business Planning Processes: Direct and execute key local affiliate planning cycles, including the strategic business plan, annual budget, and monthly financial outlooks.
- Drive Strategic Financial Modeling: Deliver comprehensive analytics, innovative insights, resource allocation models, and financial tools for the full affiliate P&L and balance sheet.
- Enable Executive Decision-Making: Provide structured, high-level analysis of planning assumptions and performance targets to guide executive leadership decisions.
- Partner with Commercial Stakeholders: Collaborate closely with cross-functional business stakeholders to provide financial analysis, consultation, and total financial transparency.
- Optimize Resource Allocation: Balance resource allocation across competing priorities and evaluate the financial implications of proposed strategic business activities.
- Deliver Commercial Insights: Generate actionable financial insights and scenario modeling to empower teams to reach strategic goals and maximize ROI.
- Champion Process Improvements: Identify, design, and implement continuous process improvement initiatives to simplify financial operations and enhance reporting efficiency.
- Execute Strategic Ad-Hoc Projects: Lead special financial projects and ad-hoc strategic assignments to support broader affiliate and enterprise objectives.
- Educated Professional: You hold a Bachelor’s or higher degree in Finance or Accounting; a major in marketing, business, or science is a plus.
- Experienced Finance Senior: You bring 5–7 years of progressive experience in a senior Finance role, preferably within the healthcare or diagnostics industry.
- Demonstrated Functional Leader: You possess initial leadership experience gained from either direct line management or non-hierarchical functional leadership roles.
- FP&A & Financial Expert: You demonstrate solid expertise in management accounting, financial accounting, corporate finance, scenario planning, and advanced financial modeling tools.
- Strategic Stakeholder Partner: You bring proven experience partnering across global and local matrix organizations with solid stakeholder management skills.
- Influential Communicator: You exhibit strong communication, negotiation, and influencing capabilities, with the ability to translate complex financial data into business terms.
- Entrepreneurial Thinker: You possess a commercial, customer-centric mindset combined with strategic vision, analytical rigor, and an entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving.
- Remuneration: Competitive base salary paired with an attractive performance incentive scheme.
- Security: Premium health insurance covering you and your family, alongside a high-matching Provident Fund.
- Well-being: Flexible working arrangements, generous annual leave, and global professional growth opportunities.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance or Accounting
- 5-7 years of progressive experience in a senior Finance role
- Initial leadership experience through direct line management or functional leadership
- Expertise in management accounting, financial accounting, corporate finance, scenario planning, and financial modeling
- Experience partnering across global and local matrix organizations
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills
- Ability to translate complex financial data into business terms
- Commercial, customer-centric mindset with strategic and analytical capabilities
- Healthcare or diagnostics industry experience
- Major in marketing, business, or science
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
Roche Insights
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
