Finance Business Partner - Digital Health

The Position

This role can be based in Santa Clara or Pleasanton, CA or Tucson, AZ or Indianapolis, IN.

Impact Healthcare

At Roche, we foster a diversity of scientific approaches and embrace innovative ideas. Combining that with the seamless integration of our capabilities in Roche Pharma and Roche Diagnostics, we are uniquely positioned to achieve medical breakthroughs for patients and society. With our global spread of research, diagnostics and pharma development, data analytics and genomic insight teams, we are all working to translate science and research into groundbreaking therapies and diagnostics.

What You Will Do 

The Business Finance of Roche Information Solutions (RIS) is responsible for supporting and guiding the RIS Customer Areas (CA) Leaders, Lifecycle Leaders and their organizations as enterprise business partners to achieve the goals of RIS and their CAs organization. Activities in this chapter aim to support the development of strategic direction, timely decision-making, and appropriate resource allocation for Customer Areas, Disease Areas, and Lifecycle Teams (LCTs) in order to ensure sustainable, long-term profitability and to create the highest value for customers, patients and society.  The RIS Customer Areas are responsible for digital solutions for Lab and healthcare providers, clinicians, patients and in the future potentially payers. 

As the Finance Business Partner, Digital Health you will actively contribute to the creation and culture of the new RIS Finance model and seek opportunities to deliver the best experience to all partners across the CA and LCTs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive profitability deep dives & segment reviews including divestment/ restructuring decisions and be responsible for creation/ challenge of Business & Investment cases 

• Enable RIS portfolio decisions, support Lifecycle Team Portfolio management & prioritization (including budget allocation), as well as M&A, Partnering, licensing activities & decisions

• Provide the Lifecycle and International business Teams with data-driven facts and requirement-oriented financial insights on key business topics

• Monitor portfolio performances and support the Lifecycle deliveries cost-effectively by challenging on actual spends

• Participate in respective governance committees and further support overall portfolio prioritization processes

• Capture business strategies value with up-to-date Business Plan and Business Cases

• Strive for consistency and efficiency across the Business Area and Customer Areas, by continuously finding opportunities to harmonize, pool and simplify finance processes while sustaining or improving the stakeholder experience

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration/Finance or in a related field; an advanced degree is highly preferred   

• 5 years of experience in the diagnostics or software development industry, or a related field across geographies, business functions and roles 

• Proven track record in finance business partnering for global and local organizations and broad Finance knowledge with an entrepreneurial mindset as well as excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills     

• Experience with Software as a Service (SAAS) business models and knowledge of SaaS financial infrastructure e.g. revenue recognition guidelines, options and differentiation between services and R&D expenses, software capitalization requirements is a strong plus

• Self-driven with a strong desire to experiment with new ways of working and pilot new areas and capabilities

• Conceptual thinker yet pragmatic and solution-oriented, with strong business acumen and customer orientation

• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills

• Strong appetite to understand, support and develop digital businesses, with deep understanding of associated business models, business performance, business and financial metrics and portfolios

What else do you have in your toolbox?

• You act as a empowered individual comfortable to lead from every seat in a self-aligned environment

• You are a growth-minded, relentless learner that finds accomplishment in dealing with complex issues and unexplored paths.

• You are an entrepreneur every day: Connecting the dots with a system perspective and an enterprise mindset in order to drive strategy and deliver business cases generating value for Roche

• You are actively breaking down silos by forming networks and collaborate across and beyond the chapter and broader Finance organization to allocate resources to maximize outcomes

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