Senior RDU IT Finance Business Relationship Manager

Some opportunities happen only once in a lifetime - like a job where you have the chance to change lives. At Alexion, people living with rare and devastating diseases are our Guiding Star. We are driven to continuously innovate and build meaningful value in all we do to help patients and families fully live their best lives. We value the uniqueness and diversity of our employees and recognize that nurturing the diverse perspectives and strengths of our people translate into innovative breakthroughs for patients.

This is what you will do:

The Alexion IT organization is looking for a Senior IT Finance Business Relationship Manager to join their Finance IT team. This role is a business partner for the Alexion Finance organization, and it maintains and builds the business relationships and projects that align to key finance business priorities. Additionally, the person will be responsible for understanding and translating business needs to functional and technical requirements. The individual must be an initiative-taker with effective communication, organizational, and influencing skills who will work to become a trusted partner to the Finance organization and across IT.

You will be responsible for:

• Work with Alexion Finance collaborators to discover unmet and unarticulated business needs and turn them into concrete projects.
• Partner with Alexion Finance Business collaborators to develop function specific roadmaps and portfolio(s)
• Investigating and proposing new Finance solutions that demonstrate the latest technologies such as Enterprise AI and machine learning capabilities
• Co-Lead (with the business) the current state system analysis and detailing future state system requirements, as well as documenting and recommending solutions including functional and technical requirements.
• Leading the analysis, documentation and test program development, logic, process flows and specifications.
• Facilitate actions and compile deliverables in accordance with SDLC for Internal Audit sign-off.
• Manage financials for Alexion IT Finance Portfolio as required.
• Spearhead initiatives to identify process improvements for business processes related to established financial cycles.
• Work closely with the business partners, Data Capability Lead, and Service Delivery Teams on the documentation of business processes and architecture.
• Understand business initiatives to ensure compliance in all platforms and systems.
• Lead and represent IT function at various project and sponsor committee meetings.
• Perform other function-related activities in addition to the above-mentioned responsibilities as reasonably required by business needs.

You will need to have:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 7+ years of experience
• Demonstrated experience as a Business Relationship Manager supporting Finance.
• Detailed understanding of one or more of Finance processes such as revenue forecasting, headcount/ people planning, operating/capital expense planning, cash flow forecasting, balance sheet forecasting and legal entity forecasting
• Demonstrated ability and/or a proven record of success in developing roadmap, managing portfolio, and financials.
• Experience working with various analytical tools and reports that support the Finance & Planning function.
• Understanding of SDLC guidelines and Agile Processes to deliver the projects and improvements identified through the PMO process.
• Speak up approach to challenge the status quo and raise and gain consensus for recommendations.
• Be an initiative-taker, purposeful, and effective at prioritizing and leading multiple tasks concurrently.
• Strong influencing, networking and team working skills.
• Demonstrate positive relationship building skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives.
• Proficiency in planning, change management and problem solving and able to resolve issues.
• Proven ability to relate and respond to finance needs in an IT environment.
• Ability to manage negotiations, expectations, and solutions across complex groups.
• The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

We would prefer for you to have:

• An MBA, or equivalent level of experience
• Knowledge and or expertise in Anaplan or other financial planning systems is a plus.
• Experience of GenAI and machine learning capabilities with re