Clinical Finance Business Partner (12 months secondment/ fixed term)

Clinical Finance Business Partner (12 months secondment/ fixed term)

Location: Warsaw

Hybrid Model: 3 days per week from office

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

Finance at AstraZeneca has a clear vision to drive growth through innovation by being trusted partners who add value through connection and innovation in support of the company’s purpose and ambition:

• We’re trusted partners: we are more than an enabling function or service provider, we’re a true and trusted partner who works with the business to unlock value for our stakeholders and patients.
• We’re connecting: we connect with each other across geographies - breaking down silos and acting as one team. Our leaders are connected to our people. We leverage ideas, systems and data, connect knowledge and create actionable insights and predictions.
• We’re innovating: we identify new opportunities to introduce, adopt or modify effective ideas to solve problems. We find solutions to both existing challenges and anticipated changing needs. We use innovation to simplify, to make a bigger impact and to give us a competitive advantage.
• We’re adding value: We know what it takes to deliver value, a laser focus on our strategic priorities and key enablers.

This role is set within R&D Finance team supporting global Science Units and development of new medicines.

Role will give detailed exposure to our core business & provide an incredible learning ground and experience.

Your main accountabilities will include:

Business Partnering

• Supporting early & late stage products through their development by providing the financial input into budget tracking and for specific decisions, explaining changes & variances vs forecast each month.
• Cooperation with the Clinical Product Team to ensure robust financial forecasts throughout the annual planning cycle.
• Proactive and insightful analysis that helps the Clinical Product Team improve efficiency or reduce costs.
• Building strong relationships with the Product Team, clinical study leaders, directors of clinical development, external partners, procurement & within finance.
• Through strong understanding of business priorities, identifying & driving cost saving opportunities within the business.
• Being able to communicate clearly to finance & non-finance professionals verbally & via presentations for key decision points and business or finance review meetings.
• Delivering knowledge sharing to global clinical study leaders.

Specialized Reporting, Analysis & Controls

• Ownership of specific accounting and system processes,
• Accounting compliance and driving audit controls.

Improvements & Team Responsibilities

• Constantly sharing best practice and learnings across the team to ensure consistency & efficiency in ways of working.
• Identifying improvements and value adding examples & implementing them in a coordinated way across the team and the Product Teams.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Essential

• University Degree preferably in Finance, Accounting or Economy
• Experience in financial analysis or finance business partnering
• English language proficiency, both verbal and written (Polish fluency is not required)
• Microsoft Excel – advanced skills
• Ability to quickly learn financial applications

Desirable

• Exceptional communication & interpersonal skills
• Experience of partnering with business functions outside of finance
• Experience with financial & SOX controls
• Previous experience in the use of SAP, Business Objects and Hyperion (or similar) will be an asset

Personal Characteristics

• Proactive & taking the initiative
• Entrepreneurial thinking and spirit
• Building strong, trusting relationships
• Adaptability and flexibility to deal with changing environment
• Team player
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Capacity to see and understand the bigger picture
• Attention to detail
• Eagerness to learn and continuously improve

What we offer:

Welcome to Warsaw Site, one of over 400 sites here at AstraZeneca, providing a collaborative environment where everyone feels comfortable and able to be themselves is at the core of AstraZeneca’s priorities, it’s important to us that you bring your full self to work every day.

To help you maintain your best self, here’s a sneak peek into some of the things this site provides for you:

• The best team to support you,
• Multisport card,
• Pension plan,
• Life insurance,
• after-work events,
• private medical care
• lunch card,
• bright and spacious environment,
• sustainable office working environment.

Please note that we are working in a hybrid model of 3 days per week from the office in Warsaw

al business update cycle and monthly reporting.

• The Business Analyst will be viewed by finance and business customers as a financial modelling and analysis expert. The role broadly includes the following key components :

• Business Strategy & Decision Support

• To provide support to key business & investment decisions, co-ordinating data collection from a variety of sources and formats, providing analysis in support of options and enabling appropriate decision making by the business and finance partners

• Business Performance

• To be accountable for complex, manual accounting journals, to communicate monthly performance, provide analytical and data collection support to business planning processes and coordinate presentations for key business and finance review meetings.

• Continuous Improvement & Governance

• To support continuous improvement in Finance processes and capabilities and to ensure compliance with financial governance and control frameworks as appropriate.

• They will be members of a global network of Finance Analysts, sharing best practice and delivering valued support to the Business with global consistency and efficiency


Typical People Management Responsibility (direct / indirect reports):
• Approximate number of people managed in total (all levels) -


What is the global remit? (how many countries will the role operate in?):


Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• Essential: Qualified or part qualified finance professional
• Desirable: Experience of working in a global organisation, preferably within the pharmaceuticals industry, and of the drug development life cycle and commercial aspects of the industry; Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team and liaising with senior managers; Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including oral & written; Good understanding of functional cost drivers; Use of/Exposure to general office and financial systems, e.g. SAP; Strong Excel/modelling skills

Key Relationship to reach solutions:
• Internal (to AZ or team): Finance Business Partner, Finance Manager, Manufacturing Operations Manager, Manufacturing Director, Production Managers, Financial Accountant, Cost Accountant, Supply Chain Managers, Planning Managers [Senior Business Analysts]
• External (to AZ): External Auditors, External Suppliers

Date Posted

Closing Date

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.