About the Role
Join AstraZeneca’s Oncology Business Unit as a Finance Business Partner, maximizing finance’s contribution to strategic and operational success by pairing commercial insight with hands-on execution. You will co-own financial and commercial delivery for a dedicated franchise, acting as a trusted partner to various departments and senior leadership, challenging assumptions, influencing investment decisions, and delivering high-quality analysis.
Responsibilities
- Lead finance partnering for a dedicated OBU franchise, shaping commercial and financial outcomes
- Act as a strategic advisor to Franchise Heads and cross-functional leaders
- Align closely with Pricing & Access to strengthen planning assumptions and scenario modelling
- Own P&L planning, resource allocation and performance monitoring
- Identify growth opportunities and efficiency improvements with actionable recommendations
- Support investment decisions through high-quality data consolidation and insight generation
- Prepare Mid-Term Plans and Short-Term Forecasts for franchise brands
- Streamline financial processes using a strong digital and simplification mindset
- Collaborate with GFS Warsaw to optimise planning and reporting
- Contribute to Axial implementation through accurate OBU data inputs
Requirements
- Degree in Finance/Accounting, professional accounting qualification or equivalent experience
- Experience in Finance Business Partnering or Controlling experience in an international commercial environment
- Strong proficiency in SAP/SmartView, advanced Excel and Power BI
- High digital fluency with a passion for automation and AI-enabled insight generation
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate complex scientific data into financial impact
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-influencing skills
- Ability to balance detail with strategic perspective, working at pace and under pressure
Education Level
- Degree in Finance/Accounting
- professional accounting qualification
About the Company
- AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company.
- We focus on discovering, developing and commercialising prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases.
- At AstraZeneca, we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.
- Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit.
- To embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
- There is no better place to make a difference in medicine, patients, and society.
- An inclusive culture where you will connect different thinking to generate new and valuable opportunities.
- Where you will find a commitment to lifelong learning, growth and development for all.
- Our Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) mission is to create an inclusive and equitable environment where people belong, using the power of our diversity to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients.
- Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to the success of our company, because innovation requires breakthrough ideas that only come from a diverse workforce empowered to challenge conventional thinking.
- We’re curious about science and the advancement of knowledge.
- We find creative ways to approach new challenges.
- We’re driven to make the right choices and be accountable for our actions.
- As an organisation centred around what makes us human, we put a big focus on people.
- Across our business, we want colleagues to wake up excited about their day at the office, in the field, or in the lab.
- Along with our purpose to bring life-changing medicines to people across the globe, we have a promise to you: to help you realise the full breadth of your potential.
- Here, you’ll do work that has the potential to change your life and improve countless others.
- And, together with your team, you’ll shape a culture that unites and inspires us every day.
- This is your life at AstraZeneca.
Equal Opportunity
- Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment.
- We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process.
- We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics.
- We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best.
- If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.
