Chief Financial Officer - Global Oncology BU

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Job Description

About this Role: 

The Chief Financial Officer, Global Oncology Business Unit (OBU) will be accountable for understanding the company’s goals and how to achieve them through value creation.  In this role you will partner with other functional areas, this position requires a broad understanding of the business requirements combined with a working model to develop and implement solutions.

In this role you will need to understand financial modeling techniques that analyze key business variables and provide meaningful information.  Examples include price/volume, product line profitability, and wholesaler/chain pricing. Understanding and applying various financial valuation principles including net present value, discount rate, return on investment, and decision tree analysis will be key.  A strong aptitude of technical skills such as the following will be important to succeed in this role:

• GAAP, IFRS, SOX, J-SOX
• Internal control requirements, operating guidelines
• Tax Issues

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a key member of the Executive Management team as a direct report to the President, Global Oncology (OBU), with a matrixed reporting relationship to the Global CFO.  Assumes a strategic role in the overall financial management of the company.  Financial responsibility in planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial-related activities for the OBU.  Direct responsibility for financial planning, accounting & reporting, strategic planning, deal analysis and investor relationships. Responsibility for all reporting, internal controls, Sox and J-Sox and audit aspects of the OBU.
• Anticipate business risks, assess their impact on the ability to achieve company goals, develop action plans, and ensure solutions have been realized. Assume full responsibility for the review of all analyses prepared by the direct and indirect staff.  Play a strong role in identifying opportunities for profit improvement and maximizing return on investment and will be deeply involved in fundamental accounting matters and the managerial problems that are affected.
• Lead the business with confidence and passion, and continually reinforce company values and culture. 
• Maintain effective internal communications, foster teamwork, and be a constant source of inspiration and strong leadership to the organization. 
• Lead a function of Financial Planning (with business decision support and strong business partnering), monthly Close and Managerial Reporting (with a heavy reliance on Takeda Business Services (TBS)), Revenue Controlling (with a focus on gross to net deductions of net revenue) and Contracts & Pricing (C&P).
• Establish and maintain country and Brand P&Ls, capturing all relevant expenses and revenues across the business, and reporting financial performance relative to targets and projections.  Global, multi country responsibility (US, Japan and 8 European countries) managing local teams with various business dynamics
• Ensure that budgets and expenditures are aligned with OBU’s strategy, and appropriate financial inputs to strategy development, revision, and implementation.
• Oversee all financial reporting and any finance-related communications with other divisions within Takeda.
• Drive Global OBU to track, meet, or exceed all finance related KPIs, while remaining within acceptable budget variances, intervening as appropriate to achieve this goal.
• Collaborate with the other business units, and corporate functions, especially Global Finance (this position is a standing member of Global Finance leadership team (FLT) under steer of global CFO) and other regions on k