Commercial Finance Lead Benelux

About Astellas

At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed.

We pursue innovative science, focusing initially on the areas of greatest potential and then developing solutions where patient need is high, often in rare or under-served disease areas and in life-threatening or life-limiting diseases and conditions.

We work directly with patients, doctors and health care professionals on the front line to ensure patient and clinical needs are guiding our development activities at every stage.

Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient-centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division.

We work closely with regulatory authorities and payers to find new ways to ensure access to new therapies. We deliver the latest insights and real-world evidence to inform the best decisions for patients and their care-givers, to ensure the medicines we develop continue to provide meaningful outcomes.

Beyond medicines, we support our stakeholder communities to drive initiatives that improve awareness, education, access and ultimately standards of care.

About This Job

• This position ensures that sales and expenses are properly planned, Profit & Loss prepared, and Actuals reported.
• Brings transparency to the performance of the market and ensures efficiency in allocation of resources to the business.
• Provides financial decision support at the market level, ensuring that the impact of major risks and opportunities on Profit & Loss are understood by market leadership and area leadership team.
• Supports the local Market Access function through analysis, insights and negotiations
• Develops and implements initiatives to optimize working capital.
• This requires solid finance and business partnering skills.

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

• Coordinate financial planning processes of market.
• Be responsible for accurate financial reporting and adherence to internal controls of market, together with local GBS lead.
• Partner with General Manager and Functional Leads of market and provide financial decision support.
• Support GBS lead in statutory, tax, treasury, and accounting-related matters. Collaborate with Regional Planning & Analysis team in projects and ad hoc requests.
• Support the local Global Function business partners
• Cordinate financial planning process for the market in accordance with global standards, timelines, and templates, in collaboration with Area Commercial Finance team. This includes all major financial planning cycles, such as annual budget, interim forecasts and overall mid-term plan (MTP). Collect input from senior management at key decision points during planning cycles.
• Analyse Profit & Loss at market and key brand level. Ensure high forecast accuracy of sales and OP. Ensure senior management understands key drivers of sales and OP forecasts through insightful presentations. Lead detailed variance analysis of Actual sales results vs Budget and Forecast. Participate in market leadership team and local brand team.
• Prepare Risks & Opportunities analysis, challenge assumptions, identify opportunities to close gaps and drive their implementation.
• Partner with marketing teams in day-to-day finance interactions. Provide financial decision support. Understand and influence strategic priorities of therapeutic areas.
• Lead finance perspective on business case development and pricing change discussions before area and regional approval, ensuring key financial, competitive, and strategic considerations are accounted for.
• Contact point for external auditors in the review of quarterly closings and all associated activities and deliveries.

Preferred Knowledge & Experience:

• MBA and / or CPA and / or equivalent certificates

Additional information:

• Full time contract.
• Netherlands or Belgium.
• Hybrid work.
• BS/BA in Finance / Accounting.
• English and local language advanced level in speaking and writing.
• Solid work experience in planning and budgeting in the Pharma industry.
• Profound working knowledge of accounting and internal control standards.
• Experience with ERP systems.
• Experience with planning tools.
• Experience with Excel and PowerPoint.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.