Job Title: Finance Enterprise Partner (Finance Business Partner) - Canada Pharma

Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Job Type: Full Time (Hybrid)

At Roche, we believe its urgent to deliver medical solutions right now 6ven as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients lives and we believe that good business means a better world.

As a Finance Enterprise Partner (FEP) within our Canadian Pharma affiliate, you will serve as a key business partner to the commercial organization, leveraging deep business understanding and financial expertise to drive strategies that deliver on our 10-year ambitions. This role is about delivering value for Canadian patients, the health ecosystem, and for Roche, acting with urgency to get our innovative medicines to Canadian patients, when they need it.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Commercial Finance chapter lead (director), you will be focusing on the following areas:

• Strategic Partnership: Act as strategic thought partner to the Disease Area Squad Leads to land ambition, execution excellence, and optimal investment strategies. Shape strategy through robust, evidence-based recommendations on business planning, forecasting, and scenario-planning.

• Resource Allocation: Drive portfolio prioritization and fluid resource allocation in line with enterprise goals. Create transparency and implement governance around investments across the organization and provide advice on the financial implications (ROI) of business activities.

• Custodian of performance: Ensure accuracy of financial statements following accounting principles. Implement relevant controls for risk mitigation. Effective collaboration with the Chief Country Accountant and the extended shared services team to ensure smooth operation of financial processes.

• Drive Informed Decisions: Leverage advanced analytics to merge financial, supply chain, and patient program data into strategic recommendations that accelerate business outcomes. Translate complex financial data into high-impact narratives that provide stakeholders with the clarity needed to act decisively against opportunities and risks identified.

• Innovation & tech-savviness: Actively identify, design and implement opportunities in automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Catalyze digital transformations in areas of forecasting, scenario planning, strategic decision making, reporting, and financial processes.

• Network Collaboration: Systematically remove silos and collaborate across functions and geographies. Actively participate in global finance workstreams and communities to shape best practices and implement learnings across markets.

Who You Are

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree (or above) in Business, Finance, or a related field.

• 5-7 years (or above) of relevant professional experience in controlling, strategic finance, or business intelligence, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry and an international environment.

• Good foundational accounting knowledge.

Mindset & Skills

• Strategic thinking and business acumen: Ability to master deep understanding of the ecosystem, the disease area, and the enterprise. Moving beyond historical analysis to provide the future-focused logic and strategic clarity required to achieve our ambitions.

• Can-do attitude and ownership mindset: Entrepreneurial spirit who takes accountability for driving outcomes and moving initiatives forward before being asked.

• Proactive & resilient: Ability to influence, initiate, and drive behaviour change and improve business processes. Thrive in a fast-changing environment.

• Impactful communication: Possess excellent storytelling and presentation skills (oral and visual) in English, translating complex data into clear strategic paths and stakeholder action. 

• Collaborative networker: Possess the ability to build and expand trusted, productive networks across the organization, using these relationships to break down silos and influence better decision-making across diverse stakeholders.

• Effective under pressure: Deliver high-quality work within short windows, maintaining focus and composure when faced with tight deadlines and time pressure.

• Good knowledge of Microsoft office and Google suite for data analysis and visualisation, reconciliation, financial modeling.

• Comfortable in utilising AI: Proven experience driving digital initiatives, including automation, advanced analytics, or process digitalization to improve decision-making and efficiency.

• Ambition for a global career in Finance.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.