Director, Finance Business Partnering –… at CSL · Maidenhead

Director, Finance Business Partnering – International Commercial & Pandemic

Location: Seqirus UK - Maidenhead

This role is part of the Commercial Finance Business Partnering team, focussed on supporting the CSL Seqirus operations across International and Pandemic and key business partner to the VP of Commercial Operations International.

The purpose of this role is to provide financial support to the regional commercial head across financial reporting and planning process but also strategic decision and projects. The size of the portfolio is approx. $1bn in Revenue and $100m in opex.

This role will also provide strategic financial support to the Head of Commercial International and Head of Global Commercial. This will involve reviewing business cases, assessing growth strategies, new markets (e.g. Middle East), as well as involvement in the Long-Range Planning (LRP) process. As part of this scope this role will support global commercial strategies.

Responsibilities

Strategic Financial Leadership:

• Trusted advisor to VP Commercial International to develop strategies, ensuring financial plans align with goals.
• Primary finance partner providing insights and guidance on budgets, forecasts, and resource allocation.
• Contribute to the development of budget and forecasts, identifying opportunities for cost optimization while maintaining strategic focus.
• Contribute to modelling scenarios for launches, helping shape market strategy through pricing and margin insights, and supporting cross-functional projects such as market access, business development, and launch readiness.
• Shape commercial and marketing strategies with financial guidance to ensure resource allocation, profitability, and Return on investment.
• Apply insights to support prioritization of resources and optimization of investments.
• Provide thought leadership, providing strategic analytics and insight to support the commercial affiliate leadership team.
• Be a member of the Commercial Finance Leadership team, and a member of the Seqirus Finance Extended Leadership Team.
• Delivery of one or more strategic initiatives within the commercial finance remit.

Business Partnering & Decision Support:

• Provide proactive, data-driven financial insights to support critical decisions.
• Be a trusted advisor to Commercial leaders, offering financial recommendations on product pricing and channel strategies to maximize impact and profitability.
• Manage economic research e.g. market and competitor analysis, and financial modelling to provide reports and recommendations to management.
• Perform complex financial modelling and analysis for strategic and operational decision support.

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A):

• Oversee the budget and forecast process, ensuring accuracy and reporting of important financial metrics.
• Provide ongoing financial analysis to monitor spend and assess its effectiveness in driving outcomes.
• Develop financial measurements, tracking performance against targets, and making recommendations for adjustments as needed.
• Proactively advise Commercial leadership on business performance, delivery of revenue and EBIT targets
• Provide challenge and counsel to the wider Commercial Finance team regarding financial performance, working with teams to set operational and financial targets, ensure monthly results are fully understood, ensure financial risks to the business are appropriately managed and opportunities fully explored.
• Understanding key drivers of gross to net adjustments, preparing analysis to support month end accruals, as well as supporting the financial audit process.

Internal Control

• Provide external financial audit support at half-year and full year, including preparation of documentation and analysis, and working with auditors to provide business insight for items as requested and resolution of issues raised observing agreed timelines.
• Support ensuring that financial processes follow CSL policies and that proper controls are in place, as applicable.

• Advise on alternate financial plans and potential impact of current and future laws and regulations.

Team Leadership & Development:

• Manage team, providing guidance and professional development opportunities.
• Foster a collaborative environment that inspires results.

Education Requirements

Professional certification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) preferred.

Experience Requirements

• 10+ years experience in accounting, finance or similar roles including financial analytics and planning.
• 3+ years in commercial finance in a business facing role where there is demonstrated understanding of the value chain in the international life sciences preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership experience including influencing senior management and critical stakeholders.
• Expert level Excel incl. data analysis functionality, good skills in other MS-Office applications; SAP and Business Intelligence / Financial Consolidation applications (e.g. BW/BI, SAP BPC, SAC) including Power BI. Model N would be advantageous.

About CSL Seqirus

CSL Seqirus is part of CSL. As one of the largest influenza vaccine providers in the world, CSL Seqirus is a major contributor to the prevention of influenza globally and a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness. With state-of-the-art production facilities in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, CSL Seqirus utilizes egg, cell and adjuvant technologies to offer a broad portfolio of differentiated influenza vaccines in more than 20 countries around the world.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

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