• Administer semi-annual financial planning processes for assigned functional teams, resulting in highly accurate submissions including cost center detail, book page summaries and supporting analyses as required.
  
• Develop financial models and analytical tools to support function objectives and projects.
  
• Support the development and use of financial planning system for assigned functions. Create, leverage and deploy financial models for own use and those of other finance staff. Document models and processes and work to creatively and continuously improve the planning process.
  
• Manage the monthly financial close process including identifying and resolving discrepancies in actual transactions in SAP versus planned activity.
  
• Prepare and post adjusting accounting entries as necessary and maintain monthly balance sheet reconciliations for assigned accounts.
  
• Actively participate in the mid-year and year-end audit by supplying requested materials and information as requested by the external audit firm.
  
• Develop detailed explanation for variances between actual and plan on a monthly basis for assigned functional areas.
  
• Prepare and distribute reporting packages and analyses to assigned functional personnel and/or senior management according to established schedules and special requests. Identify ways to streamline and enhance timely and accurate reports.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent or in lieu of a degree, must have 8 years of business experience with at least 6 of those years in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, or reporting.
  
• Minimum of 2 years of business experience.
  
• Previous budgeting, planning and variance analysis experience.
  
• Demonstrated analytical capability.
  
• Strong computer software skills (Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

• Communication: ability to communicate ideas and data both verbally and written, in a persuasive, organized and appropriate manner, and preparing presentations for customer groups.
  
• Analytical: ability to analyze monthly financial results.
  
• Accounting: basic understanding of financial and management accounting principles and practices.
  
• Management: work with manager to set priorities and meet specific deadlines in a changing environment, ability to be flexible, accommodating, and to deal with change effectively.
  
• Customer Service Orientation: ability to gain trust of function management and leverage relationships to provide best possible financial plans.
  
• Teamwork: ability to work effectively in and contribute to a team environment.
  
• Entrepreneurial: ability and desire to take ownership over activities and projects, desire to shape the organization.

• Periodic overnight travel may be required.

• Develop detailed financial models in support of a given project by working with various R&D and Commercial groups to gather inputs.


• Assess actual project spend and commercial results against prior forecasts to provide risk analogs for financial models.


• Capture relevant assumptions behind model inputs to ensure consistency across project iterations.


• Development of project alternative scenarios based upon varying model inputs to capture the range of project outcomes for risk assessment.


• Guide the discussion of the GPTs to fully inform the financial assessment of projects under consideration and to frame GPT decisions in the appropriate financial framework for the given project.


• Inform the GPT on the project’s impact to the overall therapeutic area portfolio.


• Deliver project assessments into a therapeutic area rollups for TAL consideration and further evaluation. Act as the project content expert into the TAL.

Lead, design & manage development of Excel based project evaluation models, coordinating across the TAS team and the BE team in Japan. Work to ensure model coherence and efficiency in support of project evaluations. Contribute to the active sharing of project evaluation knowledge across the US TAS and Japan BE groups to ensure a unified approach to project evaluation across Takeda.

Develop and maintain general therapeutic expertise for assigned therapeutic areas. Develop a detailed understanding of the competitive scientific and commercial landscape in terms of pipelines, payors and prescribers through discussions with GPT members and other resources within Takeda.

Assit with guidance to TALs in terms of P&L consolidation across the therapeutic area, indicification of strengths, weaknesses and oppurtunities, strategic activities to strengthen therapeutic area, and BD augmentation of the therapeutic area.

• Bachelor’s Degree in science or business
  
• Advanced degree preferred
  
• Minimum of 10 years of drug industry experience, in Clinical Research, Regulatory, Development, Commercial, Finance or IT function.
  
• A minimum of 5 years people management experience, and/or a minimum of 8 years experience leading global, cross-functional teams in a matrix environment.
  
• Broad healthcare and/or pharmaceutical business exposure highly preferred
  
• Advanced Excel skills required

• Industry knowledge – solid understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, including drug development process, global healthcare system, prescription drug distribution process (e.g. medical referrals, managed care systems, reference pricing system) etc.
  
• Therapeutic knowledge – an in-depth understanding of the disease state, treatment paradigms and future trends
  
• Product knowledge – comprehensive understanding of the medical /therapeutic usage of the products
  
• Scientific knowledge – solid understanding of disease pathophysiology, associated mechanisms of action, interpretation of basic pre-clinical and clinical data, etc.
  
• Proven leadership skills, conceptual thinking and strategic problem-solving ability
  
• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate/present key information to senior management
  
• Proactive ability to predict issues and problem solving abilities
  
• Ability to articulate and establish processes which impact cross-functionally
  
• Ability to drive decision-making within a cross-functional and cross-cultural, global team structure
  
• Issue identification and independent resolution
  
• Strong communications skills – written and verbal
  
• Management of multiple tasks of varied complexity simultaneously
  
• Excellent organizational skills
  
• Negotiation and strong persuasive abilities
  
• Diplomacy and positive influencing abilities in a matrix management environment
  
• Presentation skills with appropriate messaging and focused recommendations
  
• Microsoft Project Professional, Excel, PowerPoint & Word

• Valid driver’s license & passport

• Manage development of budget components (function-level, product-level, etc.) assigned. Review cost-center level proposals with direct reports and senior management of other functions to facilitate ultimate submission. Instruct design of submission documents to clearly convey budget requests.
  
• Ensure forecasts are updated on regular basis throughout the year (usually four times to include Plan, Update and LBE’s). Escalate critical issues to senior management.
  
• Provide financial support and monthly budget to actual variances and trend reports to various function heads, including relevant comments.
  
• Prepare and review management commentary on Compound results for senior management and parent company.
  
• Assist in determining reporting requirements for management.

• Assist executives in developing long-term vision or strategy of TGRD by providing relevant and requested analyses and forecasts.
  
• Manage the creation of the Strategic Plan submitted to parent company and ensure the accuracy and completeness of the contents.
  
• Assist in development of Key Performance Indicators to be monitored by management.
  
• Assist in developing strategically relevant financial plan and forecast processes for TGRD.

• Perform and/or review pro-forma/ad-hoc analyses and evaluations in support of business investment proposals. Analyses may include items such as:
  
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  • Compound spend analysis by Phase
    
  • Integration efforts into TGRD clinical and budget systems
    
  • Capital Spending
    
  • Insource/outsource analysis
  
  
• Manage development and review of feasibility analysis for compounds in S1 development pipeline as directed by Corporate.
  
• Manage development and review of financial support for Business Development opportunities. Includes analysis of a Compound’s financial costing assumptions.

• Provide guidance and financial business partnership to senior and other function-level management (both in US and EU regions).
  
• Assume leadership role in fostering the Takeda culture in department including employee development, teambuilding, and responsiveness to employee issues and concerns.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting, including well-rounded coursework in other disciplines.
  
• At least 10 years of overall business experience, with a minimum of 5 years in financial planning and analysis roles.
  
• At least 2 years of experience in managing Senior Analyst level direct reports.
  
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated business impact in previous leadership roles.
  
• Proven ability to determine financial and business valuations of investment initiatives.
  
• Strong computer software skills (Microsoft Office Suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

• MBA or MS in Finance or Accounting.
  
• CPA
  
• Experience working in a pharmaceutical or healthcare setting.
  
• Product valuation experience should include understanding of sales forecasting at the “building block” level and ability to lead the process of cost estimation for each element of the product income statement.

• Strategic vision – ability to recognize, forecast and communicate events, which may impact the business.
  
• Leadership – ability to guide a team in day-to-day and long-term related activities.
  
• Coach – ability to identify development needs of staff and create a plan to address specific needs.
  
• Communication – ability to communicate ideas and data both verbally and written, in a persuasive, organized and appropriate manner, including running meetings and preparing presentations for customer groups. Ability to communicate effectively with Senior Management and representatives from Parent Company. Ability to “push back” in a respectful manner and to present “unpopular” ideas and messages when necessary.
  
• Analytical – ability to analyze financial and investment analyses and understand how to use this information to drive projects that will impact the business. Ability to interpret and question data inputs to financial models and support alternative recommendations as necessary.
  
• Management – ability to set priorities for a team and meet specific deadlines in a changing environment. Ability to be flexible, accommodating, and to deal with change effectively.
  
• Customer Service Orientation – ability to gain trust of high-level management and leverage relationships to provide best possible financial plans and drive impactful analytical projects.
  
• Teamwork – ability to work effectively in and foster a team environment.
  
• Entrepreneurial – ability and desire to take ownership of activities and projects, desire to shape the organization, consistent “out of the box” thinking.

• Ability to drive to or fly to various meetings/client sites. Some international travel may be required.
  
• Manual dexterity required to operate office equipment (i.e. computers, phones, etc.).
  
• Ability to sit for long periods of time.
  
• Carrying, handling, and reaching for objects.

• Work with Finance personnel as an IT liaison to perform project management, business needs analysis, solution analysis and recommendations. Facilitation of solutions that progress metrics reporting, performance management, etc.


• Propose innovative solutions and/or enhancements to existing tools to meet the needs of the Finance department and its internal customers such as reporting web portals, metrics tracking, website enhancements, etc.


• Development of new functionality for existing and new financial systems (as a "super user").


• Creation of User Requirement documents, creation of testing scenarios, ability to conduct testing sessions and ensure that solutions meet the needs of the business


• Perform maintenance and performance tuning of models, supervise production jobs (moving data in system), and perform security function and change management administration.


• Perform training administration/mentoring, gather user feedback, facilitate shared knowledge amongst users, perform front-line troubleshooting and helpdesk activities, and initiate software support requests.


• Coordinate with Financial Analysts and other functional project leads on initiatives such as Sales Force realignments and expansions to ensure that all systems and reporting tools are appropriately update.


• Develop and maintain standard policies, documents and processes to update master data and ensure consistency between various financial systems including SAP, Cognos, Expense Reporting, Payroll and interfaces such as HRIS, Fleet programs and FedEx.


• Coordinate activities between various departments within Finance, IT, outside consultants and functional area users.


• Leadership of assigned initiatives includes maintaining project timelines, accountabilities of team members, issue reporting, minutes reporting, documentation and training when appropriate.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Information Technology.


• Minimum of 6 years of Finance business experience.


• A minimum of 3-4 years of SAP FICO systems experience (e.g. SAP, Data Warehouse Programs) and strong systems aptitude.


• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated business impact in previous position(s).


• Strong computer software skills (Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint).


• Proven ability to manage large cross-functional projects Such as 2 successful system implementation experiences.

• MBA or CPA.


• PMP Certification


• Previous experience in healthcare industry.

• Communication-ability to communicate ideas and data both verbally and written, in a persuasive, organized and appropriate manner, including running meetings and preparing presentations for customer groups.


• Management-ability to set priorities and meet specific deadlines in a changing environment, ability to be flexible, accommodating, and to deal with change effectively.


• Customer Service Orientation-ability to gain trust of high-level management and leverage relationships to provide best possible financial plans and drive impactful analytical projects.


• Teamwork-ability to work effectively in and contribute to a team environment.


• Entrepreneurial-ability and desire to take ownership over activities and projects, desire to shape the organization, consistent "out of the box" thinking.

• Occasional overnight travel may be required.