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Job Description

About this Role:

The Senior Analyst, Finance Operations, plays a critical role in managing and executing tasks across key financial domains, including financial planning and analysis, financial control, accounting, and cost accounting. This position directly supports Takeda’s mission by safeguarding the organization’s financial health and ensuring compliance through comprehensive financial analysis and strategic planning.

How you will contribute:

• Manage aspects of the financial close, monthly re-forecast, annual budget and long-range plan

• Prepare general month-end close journal entries

• Analyze financial results, determine variance drivers, and write performance commentary

• Provide financial analysis on special projects

• Serve as the business partner to the Manufacturing and capital team

• Help support and lead 2- and 3-year forecasts.

• Make recommendations and present solutions on financial issues to Finance team

• Assist in annual standard costing calculations

• Advise supervisor of financial implications of strategic decisions

• Help create a best-in-class management reporting function

• Identify important trends as part of the recurring monthly reporting process

What you bring to Takeda:

• Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field

  • 3+ years of relevant financial analysis or accounting experience

  • Strong understanding of GAAP, financial controls, and standard costing principles

  • Experience supporting manufacturing or operations-based finance preferred

  • High proficiency in Excel (formulas, pivots, modeling) and PowerPoint

• Preferred Skills/Experience:

  • Familiarity with JD Edwards (JDE), SAP, and reporting tools (Power BI preferred)

  • Experience in a GxP or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment

  • Ability to work independently and prioritize multiple deadlines in a fast-paced setting

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills

  • Detail-oriented with strategic and analytical thinking capabilities

Important Considerations:

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:

• Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.

• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.

• Work in a cold, wet environment.

• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.

• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

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