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About the Role
The Commercial Finance Business Partner is a senior finance professional responsible for connecting financial details to business performance, risk, opportunity, and strategic prioritization within a complex commercial environment. This role collaborates with finance and commercial leaders to understand brand strategy and business drivers, translating this into actionable financial insights and decision support.
Responsibilities
- Act as a senior finance partner to commercial leaders, providing proactive challenge and support on performance, forecast, risks, opportunities, and resource allocation.
- Support and influence the integrity of assigned business area financials through robust analysis, independent judgment, and active challenge of planning assumptions and business cases.
- Analyze revenue, pricing, gross-to-net, discounting, rebate assumptions, cost packages, and other commercial drivers to identify issues, recommend actions, and influence prioritization.
- Lead planning, forecasting, and scenario modelling for the business unit.
- Support or coordinate complex business case development, investment analysis, and performance interventions requiring significant analytical judgment.
- Build a strong understanding of portfolio performance, business strategy, market access dynamics, and local commercial realities, connecting insights across markets or business areas where relevant.
- Translate detailed financial and operational data into practical, decision-relevant insight for senior stakeholder discussions.
- Challenge assumptions collaboratively and constructively, using evidence, judgment, and business understanding to improve decision quality.
- Identify performance risks early and drive intervention planning with the business.
- Lead evaluation of profitability, pricing pressure, access changes, and investment trade-offs across the assigned scope.
- Coordinate closely with GCC support teams to ensure high-quality data inputs, outputs, and performance narratives.
- Create clear leadership performance narratives and support action tracking through to resolution.
- Lead or contribute to cross-functional planning and commercial finance workstreams with a high degree of independence.
- Mentor less experienced finance partners and contribute to the development of stronger methods, standards, or review practices.
- Leverage digital and AI-enabled tools to improve analysis, insight generation, and quality of decision support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline; advanced qualification desirable.
- Typically 8+ years of progressive experience in commercial finance, FP&A, business partnering, or related finance roles.
- Strong experience in planning, business case development, performance reviews, and investment analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with commercial or market-facing teams and influence key stakeholders.
- Experience leading complex workstreams or cross-functional initiatives with considerable autonomy preferred.
- Healthcare or pharmaceutical experience preferred.
- Advanced Excel and modelling capability required.
- Experience with enterprise planning tools, Power BI or equivalent reporting and analytics platforms preferred, plus strong curiosity & willingness to upskill within AI field.
Skills
- Advanced planning and analysis
- Commercial finance insight and judgment
- Scenario modelling and decision support
- Revenue, pricing, rebate, profitability, and investment trade-off understanding
- Senior stakeholder collaboration and constructive challenge
- Clear written and verbal communication for leadership audiences
- Ability to provide informal guidance to others and work effectively through ambiguity
Location
- Toronto, Canada
Work Type
- Employee
- Regular
- Full time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of progressive experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000.00 - $179,300.00
Benefits
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About the Company
- Takeda Canada encourages applications from all qualified candidates.
Equal Opportunity
- In accordance with our accommodation policies and applicable provincial accessibility legislation, please advise us if you need accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process. Any information you provide relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.