Finance Manager, Pharma Singapore

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Finance Manager, Pharma Singapore

Roche Pharma Singapore is searching for a highly motivated, insightful, natural leader with a strong entrepreneurial mindset to join as Finance Manager to support Roche in achieving their ambitions to improve Singapore's healthcare with better outcomes for Patients.  

Based in Singapore and reporting to the Pharma Singapore General Manager, you will be a key member of the affiliate Enabling Team. You will be jointly accountable for the affiliate performance, 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. 

In this position, you will be responsible for leading a dynamic team of business-enabling functions, which includes managing and overseeing the financial results of the affiliate, business partnering, cash generation, accounting, tax, procurement, supply chain, business operations, and general services. Your financial responsibilities can be categorized as: 

Insights 

• Support our people to sense and respond by translating data into actionable insights 

• Stimulate an environment to support smart experiments, rapid iterations, ruthless prioritization ensuring a triple win 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

• Ensure a solid framework for launch excellence in 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), ensuring ambitions and commitments to the region are met

• Guide the business in meeting short to long-term goals by providing relevant financial and non-financial information 

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) and consistency within different divisions, local accounting standards, tax, financial reporting and customs

• Oversee the affiliate procurement process, with focus on value delivery for Roche, balancing costs, service quality, compliance and strategic partnerships 

• Oversee the Strategic Account chapter, with focus on coaching/thought partnering with the chapter lead, supporting the chapter through external engagements with KDMs and hospital C-suite, and actively facilitating cross-chapter collaboration

• Develop financial strategies that ensure compliance, and enable the delivery of more medicines to patients faster 

Overall People/Functional Leadership and development 

• Leverage VACC leadership principles to enable diverse team to contribute to organizational and enterprise outcomes and impact from a triple win perspective.  

• 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 team, whilst contributing to the affiliate transformation journey 

To be successful in this application, our new business-enabling lead will have a minimum 10 years of finance experience; 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. You are a curious leader that is comfortable to contribute also outside your core expertise.

Furthermore you will demonstrate: 

• The Roche Values of Integrity, Courage & Passion; 

• Mindset and behaviors consistent with the role of leaders in agile organizations, 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; 

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100'000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let's build a healthier future, together.

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