Senior Manager, FBP GRAS (UK/DE)

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The Opportunity

The role holder will be focused on the Global Regulatory and Safety Operations function and play a leadership role in delivery of the R&D Finance Business Partner model through effective team deployment. Core activities will include:

Financial Planning and Performance Management

• Provide valuable insights about financial planning, forecast and expenditure with a strong focus on Project financials and OPEX spending issues

• Support the financial planning and reporting requirements for respective global functions with close collaboration with RDLT-1 LT as well as respective TA/PST stakeholder

• Assist with Functional Monthly Financial Reviews and Quarterly planning cycles to drive deeper understanding of business dynamics, financial implications and future sensitivities

• Organize, structure, connect, & integrate business and financial information across functions, projects to support effective decision making

Value and Insights

• Proactively collaborate with Corporate Finance in the development, validation and refresh of respective business case assumptions for areas within remit

• Ensure alignment of project budgets and timelines and address variance to project plan in accordance with R&D Decision Making Framework

Other Accountabilities

• Champion the Business Partnering mind-set; Serve as Primary Financial Advisor to support strategic decision-making across R&D

• Provide financial support in association with R&D integration in any future external collaborations/acquisitions

• Support Investor Relations / Analyst half year and full-year finance reporting requirements for functional and program understanding, providing appropriate insight into the R&D portfolio, progress and performance.

• Be an advocate for changes that support the R&D organization in Finance process improvement activities

The Role

• Provide Leaders with finance guidance and decision-making support (including regular business reviews) for strategic plans, major investment decisions, business plans and targets informed through analysis of key drivers of business and sensitivities, business cases and trends

• Support Functional requirements to develop budgets and forecasts by helping managers understand the financial impacts of their plans and decisions as well as providing advice about the Global Finance Calendar and key delivery dates.

• Provide support for OPEX Projects and reporting (with the support of Accounting Operations and FP&A as required) with additional narratives and comments to assist line managers to meet and exceed their performance targets and effectively manage the financial aspects of their projects.

• Clearly define customer needs and review both ad-hoc and routine reporting and analytics to ensure they meet internal customers' needs and are well understood.

• Liaise & co-ordinate with peers to ensure delivery of the enterprise model with consistency between global functions, ensuring shared learnings, innovation, and good practice.

• Contribute to or lead global or functional specific projects as required to improve the business, Function or Finance's performance.

• Participate in developing tools, techniques, and best practice approaches to support the ongoing development of the R&D Finance capability in support of the Finance Strategy and R&D Finance Vision

• Support the development of complex business cases and other complex business analysis and modelling to provide additional guidance and insights to senior business leaders.

Your Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline;

• MBA or other advanced degree in Accounting Qualification preferred desirable.

• Professional certification (CPA/CMA) desirable

• It is anticipated this role would have 7+ years' experience in Finance roles, with extensive experience in budgeting and forecasting, analysis, including the development of business cases in a Pharmaceutical R&D environment or similar industry.

• Sound leadership and interpersonal skills, sound judgment, ability to influence, ability to execute globally integrated processes, strong analytical thinking, ability to lead, develop and motivate others, timely decision making and priority setting, organizational agility, ability to work cross-functionally and across all levels.

• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships and collaborate effectively with multiple levels and cross functionally within a site.

• Thinks Beyond - Helps teams respond to the external environment

• Build Bridges - Proactively improves cross-business collaboration

• Unleashes Outcomes - team member accountability and decision making

• Ignite Agility - Leads effective organizational change

• Inspire the Future - Ensures teams buy into the strategy

• Ability/willingness work across timezones

What we offer

• Excellent income potential and extended benefits

• Two additional leave days for your personal wellbeing

• Childcare "Kita Frosch König" for up to 14 children

• Find Inclusion and Belonging at all sites and with every colleague. Come as you are

• Extensive management/leadership programs.

• For more information, please check out our global benefits below

We are looking forward to your application. Please ensure to apply online with your CV and certifications as well as your salary expectation.

About CSL Plasma

CSL Plasma operates one of the world's largest and most sophisticated plasma collection networks, with over 350 plasma collection centers in the U.S., Europe and China. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, CSL Plasma is a subsidiary of CSL Behring, a global biotherapeutics business and a member of CSL. Plasma collected at CSL Plasma facilities is used by CSL Behring for the sole purpose of manufacturing lifesaving plasma-derived therapies for people in more than 100 countries. The parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people.

Learn more about CSL Plasma here https://www.cslplasma.com/ and CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor here https://www.csl.com/.

Learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor here at https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

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You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

To learn more visit https://https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.