Senior Financial Business Partner

We have the following opening for a Sr Financial Business Partner

#33675-Senior Financial Business Partner - RTP-Morrisville

Position Overview

The Senior Financial Business Partner provides strategic financial support to the business. This position requires a blend of financial expertise, business acumen and the ability to influence and drive strategic initiatives. This role acts as a key advisor to the Program Management leadership, supporting all financial elements relating to revenue recognition accounting, contract review and approval and sales to program margin forecasting. This role is also responsible for ensuring financial goals are met and business strategies are effectively implemented. The role involves engaging with business partners to understand business processes, performance, highlighting risks and opportunities, and fostering well-informed decisions.

Company Overview

Follow Your Genki to North America's largest, state-of-the-art Life Science Manufacturing Facility & CDMO

The work we do at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. Join FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies and help manufacture the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy and drive - what we call Genki.

Join us

We are growing our locations and are investing more than $2 billion into establishing a new large-scale manufacturing site for biopharmaceuticals in the United States to accelerate the growth of our Bio CDMO (Contract and Development Manufacturing Organization) business. This will be the largest end-to-end cell culture CDMO provider in North America.

The new site will offer end-to-end solutions to our customers looking to manufacture biopharmaceuticals in the US. In addition to drug substance manufacture, it will also provide automated fill-finish and assembly, packaging, and labeling services. The new state-of-the-art facility is located in Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States.

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Analyzes and manages the financial data related to profit margin, monitoring and optimizing profitability.
• Collaborates with Program Managers to develop and evaluate Client Project profitability and profitability modeling.
• Supports budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes, ensuring alignment with company objectives and identifying areas for efficiency and cost savings.
• Develops strategic partnerships with internal stakeholders to drive optimal value.
• Monitors financial performance against targets, identifies risks and opportunities, and recommends corrective actions.
• Prepares finance reconciliations of client projects versus internal accounting systems.
• Reviews revenue recognition, profitability and cash flow implications.
• Provides input for monthly site leadership reports, CFO report and bi-annual budget reports.
• Optimizes contract and pricing strategies, ensures accuracy of models aligned while maintaining a consistent global approach.
• Reviews and signs-off customer contracts, change orders, inter-company agreements, and Master Services Agreements, ensuring they follow the correct approval process.
• Works closely with and proactively builds and maintains effective relationships with the Program anagement team providing finance support and insight, as required.
• Ensures compliance to all relevant internal and external guidelines such as financial reporting guidelines, tax, regulatory requirements, and internal controls.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to support business goals and financial transparency.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and support implementation of these processes.
• Adheres to safety requirements and company training schedules in timely manner.
• Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Excellent customer service, presentation, team interaction and communication skills (written and verbal) across functional and inter-company boundaries.
• Ability to be proactive, multi-task, and prioritize work assignments with limited supervision.
• Ability to adhere to deadlines while maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Strong attention to detail, excellent in analyzing and interpreting data.
• Demonstrated ability to react and respond professionally to changing priorities and timelines.
• Bring a strong sense of urgency to meet business financial needs, bring a positive ‘hands-on’ approach to the position.
• Team oriented person who has excellent problem solving/ judgment skills with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Visio)
• Willingness to learn new skills

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field with 8 years of experience in commercial finance, business finance partnering, FP&A, or a related role OR
• Master’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field with 6 years’ experience in commercial finance, business finance partnering, FP&A, or a related role
• Experience and strong working knowledge of revenue recognition and an understanding of basic accounting rules and concepts

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.