Commercial Finance Lead OBU - Italy & Spain

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Job Description

Job Description

Commercial Finance Lead, OBU

Countries in scope: Italy & Spain

Job Title

Commercial Finance Lead, OBU

Countries in Scope

Italy & Spain

Function / Department

EUCAN Oncology Business Unit (OBU) Finance

Reports To (Title)

Head of Finance, EUCAN OBU

Job Grade / Level

Sr Manager

Location

Rome or Madird

Positions Reporting to Job Holder

None at launch — manager grade within the EUCAN OBU finance core

JOB FUNCTION / PURPOSE

This is a business-partnering role at its core. As Commercial Finance Leead the job holder is the primary finance partner supporting commercial leadership teams across Italy & Spain for OBU, providing financial insight and challenge to support decision making, bringing financial insight and challenge to strategic and commercial decisions, safeguarding the EUCAN OBU P&L, and translating business drivers into robust plans, forecasts and business cases.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Business Partnering with the Business 

• Act as the trusted finance business partner to the LOC OLT and OBU organisation across Italy and Spain building a strong, two-way network to the business.

• Challenge performance and drive robust business discussions through sound financial analysis, a questioning and problem-solving mindset, and the ability to influence and align decisions at LOC leadership level without direct authority.

• Bring commercial-finance insight to the commercial agenda: product launches, tender & pricing, patient flow, revenue and Gross-to-Net (GTN) assumptions, and local market-access and launch business cases (e.g. Mimrylo, Fruzaqla).

• Support Strategic, Investment, Budget and Planning decisions through a deep understanding of business drivers, risks and opportunities across the cluster.

• Deliver performance objectives in line with Takeda’s Patient, Trust, Reputation, Business (PTRB) priorities; support relevant resource allocation and leadership initiatives.

• Monitor and provide early warning of operational and financial KPIs to the Head of Finance and leadership.

2. Digital Flagship — Reporting Automation & Innovation

• Support adoption of reporting automation, analytics and AI solutions across the cluster:  champion the adoption of automation, advanced analytics and AI to raise the speed, quality and insight of financial reporting and decision support.

• Drive the automation of recurring reporting and analysis (e.g. CoWork dashboards, self-service reporting and workflow automation), partnering with the GCM hub to eliminate manual effort and release capacity for business partnering.

• Stay at the forefront of new digital and AI innovations as they emerge — actively scan, evaluate and pilot relevant tools, and embed the proven ones into the finance and business-partnering workflow.

• Support consistent data quality and KPI governance within the cluster and share digital best practice across the EUCAN OBU finance community.

3. Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Coordinate development of planning, revenue and GTN assumptions and support forecast submissions for the cluster.; own the management-reporting narrative and sign-off for Italy and Spain.
• Support on proper resource allocation decisions to OLT in Italy & Spain

• Own the cost & profitability methodology and allocation keys relevant to the cluster, and support governance and budget-control processes..

• Closely monitor and regularly follow up OPEX activity spend with budget holders; act as an active partner during month-end review and business reviews.

• Ensure high data quality of financial information and safeguard transparency during strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting.

4. Interfacing with EUCAN OBU Finance and the GCM Hub

• Act as the finance contact for the cluster to EUCAN (Region Europe & Canada) FP&A and to the GCM, ensuring on-time, high-quality submissions (MRP / MYC / LRF).

• Partner with the hub — which delivers reporting production, consolidation, month-end close support and variance-analysis data — to ensure quality and timely reports

• Prepare high-quality ad-hoc analysis and business cases; support the OBU Head of Finance and OLT in preparing Business Reviews, Town-halls and budget reviews to the EUCAN Executive Team.

• Support an environment and culture of continuous improvement of financial systems, reports and processes.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Education

• Master’s degree in Finance, Economics or equivalent.

• Fluency in English; a language of the in-scope cluster is an advantage.

Experience

• Solid experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and controlling in a dynamic, multinational environment.

• Demonstrated commercial-finance / business-partnering experience, ideally in pharma / life sciences and across multiple markets (LOCs).

• Manager-level experience of comparable complexity (typically 5+ years); sound accounting fundamentals; exposure to product launches, tender & pricing and market access an advantage.

Skills

• Strong Business Partnering — proven ability to challenge performance, drive robust business discussions through sound financial analysis, and engage and influence at LOC leadership level.

• Influencing without authority — able to align business decisions without a direct reporting line to the colleague.

• Cross-functional team player — fosters good working relations and collaboration with business and Finance colleagues.

• Performs well in ambiguous situations and to tight deadlines while delivering high-quality end products.

• Robust computer and software skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint; Power BI a plus; SAP and IBM Cognos an advantage.

• Digital and data fluency — comfortable with reporting automation and analytics and keen to adopt emerging AI / digital innovations to improve reporting, insight and ways of working.

• Good understanding of, and genuine curiosity / passion to learn about, the business (tender & pricing, launches, patient flow).

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Ability to drive or fly to attend meetings, business reviews, audits and training.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Regular travel across the in-scope LOCs and to EUCAN OBU / EOLT meetings, as required.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Positions reporting to job holder: none at launch.
  

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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.

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