Finance Director

Who we are: At Roche, 94,000 people across more than 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Based in Singapore and reporting to the General Manager, you will be a key member of the affiliate Enabling Team. You will be jointly accountable for the affiliate transformation, fostering an environment that promotes trust, transparency, and a customer centricity that inspires and motivates teams to develop and adopt an agile way of working.

As a natural leader and coach with a strong entrepreneurial mindset who can influence and enable decisions, you will thrive in a fast-paced high-performing environment where you can and will challenge the status quo, and be challenged.

In this position, you will be responsible for managing and overseeing the financial results of the affiliate, procurement, supply chain, quality, SHE and business processes/administration. Your financial responsibilities can be categorised as:

Insights

• support our people to sense and respond, by translating data into actionable insights
• stimulate an environment to support smart experiments, rapid iterations and ability to scale
• proactively identify key challenges and opportunities and assess their impact on the organization
• identify industry trends and potential business opportunities and risks; generating meaningful market insights, contributing to the long-term sustainability of the affiliate

Long-term portfolio planning and resourcing strategy

• drive a simple and fit-for-purpose business planning process that captures key strategic directions
• formulate a local finance strategy balancing global/regional requirements with local imperatives
• engage with business partners in crafting and executing value enhancing decisions through business performance (actuals vs forecast)
• guide the business in meeting short to long-term goals by providing relevant financial and non-financial information

People/Functional Leadership and development

• as the Squad Enabler for the Finance & Analytics team, cultivate a focus on personal development whilst creating and nurturing a winning team through coaching and leadership
• shape and implement the new ways of working for the finance & analytics team, whilst contributing to the affiliate transformation journey

Business partnership (including internal and external stakeholder management and business development)

• define in collaboration with business leaders the strategic direction of the organization
• network and collaborate across borders to build a strong network beyond Pharma Finance to deliver better outcomes and overcome barriers
• oversee the local finance & accounting function, ensuring adherence to Roche Group Accounting (FGA), local accounting standards, tax and customs
• oversee the affiliate procurement process, with focus on value delivery for Roche, balancing costs, service quality, compliance and strategic partnerships
• develop financial strategies that ensure compliance, and enable the delivery of more medicines to patients faster

Who you are:

You're someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies, and where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

To be successful in this application, our new Squad Enabler & Finance Director will have a minimum 10 years of finance experience, with 5 years in leadership position; a professional Accounting qualification (CPA, CA, ACA, CIMA) or University Degree/MBA and a proven record of ensuring financial governance and a strong network with the internal and external financial communities

Furthermore you will demonstrate:

• the Roche Values of Integrity, Courage & Passion;
• mindset and behaviours consistent with the role of leaders in agile organisations, characterized as Visionary, Architect, Coach, Catalyst;
• an outstanding business acumen and strategic agility;
• strong entrepreneurial, influencing and negotiation skills, with a proven ability to get things done without authority and highly adept at identifying solutions that will meet the needs of all involved parties;
• proven ability to effectively lead and enable change;
• an outstanding financial acumen with a proven track record of sound fiscal planning and management;
• a proven track record of building strong and sustainable relationships with internal and external partners and stakeholders;

Who we are: At Roche, 94,000 people across more than 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare g

Skills: Accounting, Budgets, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, Forecasting, Innovation, Management, Research, Strategic Planning, Environment, Challenging, Agile Development

Experience: 10.00-15.00 Years