Finance Enterprise Partner

Roche Pharmaceuticals

Main Responsibilities

• Acting as an Enterprise Partner along the entire patient disease journey to drive better outcomes for patients faster, functioning as a catalyst in the newly customer-oriented implementation model.

• Guiding the business squads/teams as a strategic partner to drive patient and customer centric ambitions, driving outcome-based planning with end-to-end perspective, including fit-for-purpose planning, next level of business analytics and insightful decision-making with focus on short, mid and long-term.

• Drive P&L management to ensure rigorous execution and fast responses to the business needs and adjusted priorities.

• Effective resource allocation on sustainable investment, facilitating constructive discussions about difficult trade-off decisions with business partners within and across business areas and recognizing potential for new growth opportunities.

• Performing core financial management tasks, including Event Driven Planning and financial modeling seeking for continuous learning and improvement.

• Continuously examining and interpreting data, such as financial statements, price developments, market dynamics, productivity measures, investment opportunities to inform decision making.

• To strive for consistency and efficiency across business areas, by continuously finding opportunities to harmonize, pool and simplify finance processes while sustaining or improving the stakeholder experience.

• Seeking and building opportunities to partner and collaborate with local and global networks of experts.

• Squad/Team squad members peer coaching on financial and specific expertise, fostering collaboration and a constructive environment.

• Ability to articulate themes related to Procurement, Supply Chain, Accounting as well as RSS (Shared Service Center), connecting the dots and harmonizing processes.

• Serving as guardians to enable new business opportunities, to safeguard our assets, and to provide transparency and uphold compliance.

• Owning their development to ensure they are continually growing skills, capabilities, mindset and behaviors in line with their passion and the needs of the ecosystem to perform at their best and deliver state of the art finance services.

• Collaborating with other key players in Roche, including Roche Global RSS (Shared Services), ERP Analytics and Centers of Expertise (e.g., eCoE, and Global Networks), to ensure requirements for new solutions and enhancements are managed and delivered effectively.

Expected Skills and Capabilities

• Successful candidate must be CA/CPA qualified and CFA qualified is a plus.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in Finance roles (e.g., FP&A, Planning & Controlling, etc)

• Business Acumen & Entrepreneurial Spirit in challenging the status quo and suggesting new solutions to complex issues.

• Strong Business Partner Skills, ‘seating at the table’ with the internal and external customers. 

• Capacity to swarm strategically and operationally across the business. 

• Leadership experience in working with self-aligned teams seeking for fast implementation of solutions in uncertain environments.

• Negotiation skills and ability to build strong partnerships, internally and externally.

• Enterprise mindset, connecting the dots and seeking for synergies that can concrete a bigger impact.

• Influence and communication skills that aim to share and absorb learnings and best practices across borders for the benefit of the entire organization.

• Proactivity to learn new concepts as going along the process as well as to find ways to continuously improve his/her capabilities.

• Language skills: English (Must) and Cantonese (nice-to-have)