Country Finance Business Partner

The country Finance Business Partner is a key local role, providing robust and insightful decision support to management team to enable delivery of our financial objectives at both operational and strategic level.  The role involves forecasting, planning and analysis that drive a commercially focused business and promote an optimized and focused performance culture.

Accountabilities

• Serve as a trusted member of the Country Leadership Team (CLT), providing financial leadership, challenge, and insight to support strategic decision-making and business performance.

• Partner with business leaders to shape strategy, optimize resource allocation, manage portfolio investments, and identify opportunities to maximize sustainable growth and value creation.

• Lead the development of financial plans, including Mid-Term Plan (MTP), Budget, Rolling Business Updates (RBU), forecasts, and scenarios, ensuring alignment with market priorities and Area expectations.

• Drive business performance through proactive analysis of financial and commercial trends, identifying risks, opportunities, and actions required to deliver commitments.

• Build a deep understanding of the market, portfolio, healthcare environment, and competitive landscape to provide meaningful commercial and financial insights.

• Influence key business decisions through rigorous evaluation of investments, initiatives, business cases, and trade-offs across functions.

• Act as both a strategic and analytical partner, seamlessly moving between enterprise-level discussions and detailed analysis to uncover root causes, challenge assumptions, and improve outcomes.

• Collaborate closely with Area Finance, GFS, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure accurate financial reporting, planning, and execution.

• Simplify and continuously improve planning, reporting, and decision-support processes through standardization, automation, and best-practice sharing.

• Uphold strong financial governance, controls, compliance, and stewardship of company resources.

• Develop financial acumen across the organization by translating complex financial concepts into clear business insights and actionable recommendations.

• Foster a high-performance culture by promoting accountability, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making across the market.

Key Competencies

Strategic Business Partnering

• Trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing insight, challenge, and financial guidance to drive business performance and strategic decision-making.

• Ability to influence across a matrix organization and build strong relationships with diverse stakeholders.

Financial & Commercial Acumen

• Strong financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and business case evaluation capabilities.

• Deep understanding of commercial drivers, market dynamics, and value creation opportunities.

Analytical Leadership

• Ability to go broad and go deep—connecting long-term strategy with detailed financial, operational, and commercial analysis.

• Simplifies complex issues, identifies key risks and opportunities, and translates insights into action.

Execution & Results Orientation

• Demonstrated track record of delivering results in a dynamic environment through strong ownership, accountability, and prioritization.

• Drives continuous improvement while maintaining strong financial governance and controls.

Values & Leadership Behaviors

• Leads with integrity, courage, and collaboration, consistently demonstrating AstraZeneca's values.

• Puts patients, ethics, and compliance at the center of decision-making.

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