Finance Sr Manager

In addition, the role leads and develops a Finance Partner and plays a key role in advancing capabilities through adoption of innovative technologies, automation, and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted finance partner to the GenMed leadership team.
• Provide financial leadership and challenge to support strategic decisions, resource allocation, and portfolio prioritization.
• Influence business decisions via analysis of financial and non-financial drivers.
• Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends.
• Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and fact-based decision-making.

Forecasting, Planning & Performance Management

• Lead development of short and long-term sales forecasts for the GenMed portfolio.
• Own OPEX forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning processes.
• Deliver robust financial analyses and scenario planning to support decisions.
• Monitor business performance against forecasts and targets, providing timely recommendations to optimize outcomes.
• Ensure financial commitments and forecasts accurately reflect evolving market dynamics and business assumptions.

Business Case Development & Decision Support

• Develop and evaluate robust investment proposals.
• Assess commercial opportunities, portfolio strategies, launch investments, and resource allocation decisions.
• Quantify financial impact, risks, and ROI to support leadership decision-making.
• Drive evidence-based recommendations that maximize value creation.

Data Analytics & Digital Innovation

• Leverage technology, advanced analytics, and visualization tools to transform data into actionable business insights.
• Integrate financial and non-financial data to provide holistic view of performance.
• Champion the adoption of digital tools, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency and decision quality.
• Simplify reporting processes and enhance analytical capabilities.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a Finance Business Partner (Manager).
• Build high-performance team culture focused on collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Provide mentoring and career development support alongside succession planning.
• Encourage innovation, constructive challenge, and continuous improvement.

Continuous Improvement & Compliance

• Drive process excellence and standardization across planning and reporting activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and insight generation.
• Ensure adherence to Amgen policies, compliance and controls.
• Partner effectively with regional finance to share best practices and drive alignment.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Significant experience in finance, business partnering, FP&A, or commercial finance.
• Demonstrated people leadership with direct management responsibility is preferred.
• Fluent Japanese and English communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the healthcare or life sciences industry is preferred.
• Strong understanding of commercial operations, portfolio management, forecasting, and market dynamics.
• Financial modeling, forecasting, and business case development capabilities.
• Experience leveraging data analytics, visualization tools, automation technologies, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Professional finance qualification (CPA, CMA, ACA, ACCA, MBA, or equivalent).
• Experience supporting senior commercial leaders in cross-functional organizations.

What Success Looks Like

• Delivers accurate and insightful forecasts that enable effective business planning.
• Serves as a highly valued strategic partner to the Executive Director and leadership team. Builds trusted relationships across finance and other functions.
• Drives better business decisions through high-quality analytics and financial insight as well as respectful challenge of assumptions and decisions where appropriate.
• Builds a strong, engaged, and high-performing finance team.
• Champions innovation, simplification, and continuous improvement of processes.

Creates an environment where constructive challenge, accountability, and collaboration drive superior business

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