Finance Business Partner - Ireland Operations

at  AstraZeneca

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

As a Finance Business Partner, you will be a fully integrated member of the site Leadership Team, supporting the Site Lead to drive strategic and tactical direction. You will constructively challenge the business to deliver efficiency and financial improvements, develop financial / commercial awareness of leadership teams and broader factory as a whole. You will lead on Financial Planning and reporting for the APICOM site (MTP, Budget, RBU’s, month end), including input into standard costing. You will provide regular financial performance data to support operational decision making and develop models and insights to test and support business strategy.

• Develop financial / commercial awareness of leadership teams and broader factory as a whole
• Provide oversight of the Capital Project, working alongside GERE to ensure delivery in line with business case, and facilitating delivery of other business case benefits (tax credits, IDA grants)
• Work alongside the Axial team to ensure successful localisation and implementation of S4 (AZ Ireland is one of the first Axial entities)
• Connect with the AZ Ireland Financial Controlling team and broader Alexion Finance network to ensure campus costs are understood and appropriately allocated
• Connect into the broader AZ Finance network, working alongside central Ops Finance colleagues to ensure plans and performance are understood, and with GFS to identify and deliver key improvement areas
• Operate key monthly controls and ensure corporate governance standards are met

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Join us at an exciting time of growth and evolution in our Operations function at the new API Commercialisation facility in Dublin, Ireland. The new API Commercialisation facility is currently under construction on the College Park site in Dublin, Ireland. This new internal production capability will change the way we develop and manufacture APIs, providing a fast, flexible and reliable internal launch capability, enabling speed to market and mitigating risk from reliance on external suppliers. It will also unlock lower cost vs. outsourcing.
This business partner role provides financial leadership to the management teams at site, and is an integral member of the site Leadership Team. The role holder will provide insightful financial and commercial input to business decisions, challenge key forecasting assumptions and deliver expert financial analysis of key risks and sensitivities. Be supported to face the unexpected every day in our constantly changing manufacturing environment.