Competitive salary & excellent company benefits
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.
Business Area
We’re the global team that helps to make excellence and breakthroughs possible. Here, you can apply your skills and abilities to genuinely impact patients’ lives. Join at an exciting time of growth through innovation for AstraZeneca. Shape this journey by reimagining the way we work, at every turn we’re innovating and taking intelligent risks. We do this to steer the enterprise – powering every function to run faster, more efficiently, and achieve more.
Every single person plays a part in our story – speak up, take the initiative and make it yours.
What you’ll do
You will support the Irish business to maximise the profitability to the achievement of business objectives. You will provide quality analysis and commercial input to individual investment decisions, challenge key forecasting assumptions and deliver expert analysis of performance, forecasts, key risks and sensitivities.
You will be viewed by customers as a business expert with in-depth knowledge of the Irish pharmaceutical environment and a commercial P&L.
Your accountabilities will include:
- Business Strategy & Decision Support; supporting key business & investment decisions with solid skills in scoping customer requirements, analysing issues, developing options and enabling appropriate decision making based on strategic business need.
- Business Performance; driving performance and business activity, to deliver and communicate performance and business planning submissions/reporting, and to advise senior management on key drivers.
- Business Strategy & Decision Support
- Working proactively with the business to understand future business information needs and producing efficient solutions to meet these needs ( Business Case Development, KPIs etc).
- Assessing the relevant input required to support others during difficult business decisions.
- Negotiating and communicating effectively across teams and business units and with external parties to achieve a positive outcome, encouraging others to demonstrate flexibility when considering options and assessing business impact.
- Being actively involved in review and development of short & long-term strategy in area of accountability and maintaining an up-to-date understanding of all developments which may affect the organisation’s operations and policies and proactively advising customers of all relevant matters to achieve business requirements and objectives
- Business Performance
- Having joint accountability with the business for the accuracy of forecasts and, using a good understanding of the business model and financial drivers, to challenge and influence the key cost drivers.
- Developing reliable operational and financial forecasts ensuring resources are allocated to maximise value creation for AZ.
- Leading the budget planning cycles in area of accountability; setting stretching but attainable performance targets and incentives, aligned to strategy and operational plans.
- Highlighting sensitivities & risks and delivering timely, accurate and granular reporting and commentary of Ireland’s performance, linking business drivers to actual spend and forecast.
- Working with the Business to identify and drive through opportunities for efficiencies.
- Exploring needs with internal customers and suppliers and utilising this information to improve business results showing significant commercial and business acumen.
- Preparing presentations for key review meetings with SMT, Regional CFO/VP and Business Unit Directors.
- Qualified finance professional (or equivalent)
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including oral & written.
- Excellent Interpersonal skills.
- Strong organisational skills, ability to manage conflicting demands and appropriately prioritize
- Experience of using financial systems to support business decision making (budgeting, forecasting & modelling)
- Excellent Excel / modelling skills
Desirable for the role
- Experience of working in a global pharmaceutical organisation / understanding of the drug development life cycle and/or commercial aspects
- Experience of Finance Business Partnering
