Sr. Finance Manager – Pricing

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES / 主要职责

1. Budgeting & Planning

• Organize and lead pricing budget and planning by driving cross-function discussions, collaborations, and alignments on access strategies with brand teams and corporate affairs. 
• Challenge key assumptions to improve reasonableness and accuracy of forecasts.
• Prepare short/long-term financial forecast, scenarios, risk/opportunities analysis, and present budget review deck to management to drive decisions.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with finance teams, corporate affairs team, and brand teams across the company, and deal with conflicts and ambiguity matters.
• Lead pricing communications with global stakeholders on financial impacts and relevant business insights. 

2. Decision support & governance

• Provide valuable insights on pricing related broader aspects with strong business partnership and business acumen. 
• Provide essential financial analysis to pricing negotiations, and support management decision making.
• Act as gatekeeper for price approval process. Lead cross-function teams in pricing strategy formulation, review pricing options and access scenarios, and identify risks and opportunities. 
• Interact with global pricing team for governance and planning.

3. Anaysis & performance improvement

• Manage and forecast gross-to-net accruals and true-up, based on commercial policies and channel sales performance.
• Deep dive and forecast channel margin by product.
• Handle internal and external audits by preparing audit materials and participating interviews.
• Improve accrual and payment forecast accuracy and communicate with global finance team on forecast assumptions and actual vs. forecast variance, to support cash forecast accuracy improvement.

4. Team management and projects

• Develop team, manage resources, and drive team efficiency.
• Design and manage finance related systems and reporting automation, and cross-function projects. 

JOB REQUIREMENTS & COMPETENCIES / 工作要求和胜任能力

• Bachelor’s Degree (Finance or related)
• CICPA or ACCA
• 12+ years’ work experience with 5+ years in budgeting & planning role
• Audit firm experience
• Pharma / Medical device / FMCG industry background
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Experts in Microsoft Office (Excel and Power point)
• Experienced SAP / ERP/ Hyperion/Concur use
• Strong cross function communication skill and work independently
• Strong business sense, can quickly identify stakeholders’ need and address it
• Strong leadership skills, can influence people who is not his/her direct report.
• Pleasant personality and able to work with BU/ function member
• Passion for Growth: essential in order to bring in energy and drive delivery
• Organizational awareness & Strategic Influencing
• Ability to deal with large number of contacts, across functions, and including senior management
• Maintains high ethical standards and demonstrates high personal integrity
• Flexibility - to respond to fast changing business needs on short notice
• Sets high personal standards, takes personal responsibility for delivering top class service and product.

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 authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.