Global Commercial Finance Director

Job Description

Job title: Global Commercial Finance DirectorJob Type: PermanentLocation: CambridgeMundipharma is a global healthcare company with a presence across Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Mundipharma is dedicated to bringing innovative treatments to patients in the areas of Pain Management, InfectiousDisease and Consumer Healthcare as well as other severe and debilitating disease areas. Our guiding principles, centred around Integrity and Patient-Centricity, are at the heart of everything we do.Job PurposeWork in close partnership with the Commercial Leads in the Rezzayo COE, Global Commercial Operations and Market Access in a hands-on business partnering role.Contribute to the delivery of the Global Rezzayo Financial Plan by proactively providing relevant and timely financial information to inform data driven decision-making.Responsible for making sure the commercial functions have accurate and timely financial data available as a decision base to steer business, to sustain operations and to safeguard the organisations assets.Act as a key point of contact in responding to finance questions in relation to Rezzayo.Responsibilities

• Finance Partnering
  • Provide proactive and informed financial analysis and insight to the Commercial Leads in the Rezzayo COE, Global Commercial Operations and Market Access teams to assist business and data-focused decision-making to drive performance of the business.
  • Financial leadership responsibility for the Global Rezzayo P&L, across all functions including SA, Tech Ops and Supply Chain
  • Develop a clear understanding of all assumptions behind the Rezzayo Lifecycle P&L
  • Collaboration with Tech Ops / SC to understand COGS and Inventory assumptions, ensuring alignment
  • Budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, analysis and modelling, balanced with a hands-on approach when required
  • Business case support as necessary including third party arrangements such as Distributor models
  • Prepare financial performance presentations for Exco or Board meetings as required, liaising with Rezzayo COE, Global Commercial Operations and Market Access leadership teams
  • Close collaboration with the Market Access and Pricing teams to ensure alignment on pricing and market access strategies

• Business planning and analysis
  • Own the preparation of the Global Rezzayo and Global Commercial Operations and Market Access Budgets including centrally determined functional resources/budget liaising with the Cluster FDs and Cluster Leads to understand, challenge and align on key principlesand drivers
  • Partner with the commercial leads in responding to financial tasks & challenges including the development of options and data-driven recommendations
  • Introduce a process and clear monitoring system to track progress against agreed savings commitments (both in $ and FTEs)
  • Standardise tracking of Functional FTEs, effectively and efficiently
  • Ownership of the Rezzayo Lifecycle P&L - ensuring the 5 year plan is aligned.
  • Scenario analysis and modelling to determine potential impacts of changes in assumptions.
  • KPIs /Analysis of data for Asset team, in order to benchmark and challenge / validate market planning and assumptions
• Others
  • Play a cross functional co-ordination role in order to ensure full and complete alignment on all activities and assumptions behind Rezzayo
  • Represent finance in the asset and above country leadership teams. Inform and influence strategic decision making through value-add insight and data-led recommendations.
  • Partner effectively with all stakeholders including non-Finance, GFLT, FSSC and colleagues internationally.
  • Identify and drive opportunities to maximize the value we achieve through our third-party providers.
  • Proactively identify and manage financial risks & opportunities and propose measurement to improve financial performance, governance and controls
  • Lead or contribute to projects as required and carry out any other reasonable tasks as required.
  • Working with BD / Commercial asset team to understand requirements for scenarios / base case / align on assumptions and share models

Key skills and experience

• Significant post qualification experience in Business Finance roles
• Previous people leadership experience with a track record of ability to maximise individual and team performance
• Ability to partner effectively with the commercial leads and other senior stakeholders in all financial matters and to build effective relationships at executive management level
• Ability to negotiate and influence key decisions through informed recommendations
• Proven track record of managing and engaging stakeholders in an international and multi-cultural environment
• Strategic and analytical thinking with commercial acumen and decision making
• Proven track record of continuous improvement and value creation
• Highly effectively communicator both in writing and face to face. Able to adapt messaging to deliver required results in a multi-cultural, global context
• Strong project management skills
• Able to operate independently with high levels of personal accountability
• Unquestionable integrity and personal ethics.
• Masters degree in Finance or Accounting or a comparable education
• ACCA/ACA/CIMA

Preferred experience

• Significant post-qualification experience in Business Finance roles
• Previous people leadership experience with a track record of ability to maximise individual and team performance
• Master’s degree and Master’s in Finance, Accounting, or comparable education
• Big 4 experience
• ACCA/ACA/CIMA