Finance Business Partner, DigitalX

Purpose and Scope:

As a finance business partner in the CDO Office, your main goal is to collaborate with the DigitalX Leadership Team and the wider DX Team members to optimise resources and budgets through strategic financial guidance.

You will be assigned to act as the key contact for finance matters, building relationships across regions and functions, and ensuring clear, effective communication for sub functions with DigitalX.

Your responsibilities include supporting budget, forecast, and reporting processes, offering analysis and recommendations, and helping DigitalX leaders make informed financial decisions.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities :

Budget/Forecast/Reporting: Responsible for the coordination of budget, forecasts, and reporting for assigned groups. Coordination with and support for DigitalX members and project teams with budget/forecast planning processes. Provide necessary monthly reporting and analysis, to group Heads and leadership teams as needed. Review initiative proposals for project teams to ensure correct spend categorization adhering to global and regional accounting principles. Support month end, quarter end and year-end financial close processes, ensuring that DigitalX costs are categorized and recorded according to global and regional accounting principles.

Procure to Pay: Support DigitalX members with inquiries, vendor contracts, requisitions, system approvals and payments aligned to approved budgets and in accordance with the defined processes and managerial accounting guidelines.

Master Data: Prepare and submit Master Data requests utilizing both global and regional systems as required. Update cost objects as necessary

Fixed Assets Support: Support and coordinate with regional teams regarding reporting work under construction, capitalization, and registration of all DigitalX tangible and intangible fixed assets

Intercompany /Allocations: Participate in intercompany re-charges and allocation procedures and processes within DigitalX. Create and maintain auxiliary materials.

Other responsibilities or accountabilities maybe be assigned

Required:

• • Bachelor's degree in finance , computer science or business required.
• Minimum 5-8 years supporting teams with management accounting responsibilities such as reporting, budgeting and continuous improvement.
• Pharma sector experience with strong customer focus; in multi-disciplinary, matrix and cross-cultural settings
• Knowledge and strong understanding of and ability to comply with industry laws and relevant regulations.
• Excellent organization skills and capable of operating in a matrix organization
• Well-developed communication skills and the ability to maintain positive and cooperative working relationships with IT teams.
• Demonstrable examples of ability to promote best practice and knowledge sharing.
• Collaboration skills to interact with all levels of personnel to achieve shared goals.Fluent in written and verbal business English

Preferred:

• SAP S4 – reporting
• BPC – Business Planning & Consolidation
  Project Management

Working Environment

Astellas' Global Capability Centres – Overview

Astellas' Global Capability Centres (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co-locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. Our three GCCs are located in India, Poland and Mexico.

The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands.

Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company's strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.

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