Cluster Finance Director Dach

Overview:
At Kyowa Kirin International (KKI), our purpose is to make people smile. This means more than drug discovery and development; it is about embedding care into everything we do to make a difference every day for those that need it most. We’re an inclusive pharmaceutical company that takes time to understand what really matters to our patients, their families, and their healthcare professionals, helping our people to take bold actions that deliver life-changing solutions sooner. Our culture is rooted in our values: Teamwork, Commitment to Life, Innovation, and Integrity. They help us to push boundaries to deliver extraordinary impact and make KKI a brilliant place to work.

**Job Purpose**

Financial and operational leadership in the cluster and a strong business partner providing strategic finance insights, budget setting and performance dashboards, analysis of monthly sales and profit results with a strong understanding of patient uptakes and pricing models.

**Responsibilities**:

- Partner with the Cluster Lead and management team to challenge and support optimum business outcomes.
- Provide strategic finance insights and option analysis.
- Lead the local budget and long-term planning responsibility with an understanding of the commercial and medical initiatives for RDBU.
- Manage all local relationships with external vendors, such as tax specialists, auditors, etc., as required.
- Develop financial models, metrics, and tools to enable the business to make decisions with regards to areas such as forecasting, pricing, working capital etc.
- Collaborate on the setting of national targets with cluster lead for sales team; to track and monitor field force performance.
- Where appropriate produce and submit reports to the relevant Government Departments of Health including annual sales report (audited and unaudited), quarter end reports and other returns where applicable.
- Supervise and develop the local finance team.
- Become involved in any other projects when they are necessary for the company (such as change of the accounting system).
- Maintain the accounting records for the local/regional trading companies.
- Prepare monthly /quarterly /half yearly and annual reports in accordance with published timetables, following Group accounting policies and local GAAP.
- Prepare and provide budget and forecast information as required including full Profit and Loss statement, Balance Sheet, supported by local backing files showing complete detail.
- Prepare full actual to budget variance analysis by month along with annual analysis for audit purposes and present such information to both HO and local management regularly.
- Ensure compliance with local statutory reporting, taxation and other business filing requirements including internal and external audits.
- Participate in implementing Group wide initiatives to align and optimise business processes across the Group.
- Manage proper internal controls for the business which are compliant both at a local and Group/KHK level.
- Where appropriate manage and monitor, the relevant government Pricing Regulations modelling changes.

Qualifications:

- Qualified accountant with several years proven commercial experience, ideally in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Strong financial background including experience in working with a variety of financial reporting systems with an emphasis on Excel.
- Strong English skills (both verbal and written) as well as capability to fully communicate in the local language.
- Experience in forecast and budget preparation and reporting including interrogating actual to budget performance.
- Hands on experience in preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
- Proven ability to establish metrics and associated reports which capture the health of the business and the ability to communicate these effectively to non-financial personnel.
- A knowledge of local tax is recommended.
- Previous experience of multinational operations and inherently tight reporting deadlines would be beneficial.
- Experience of dual reporting lines (HO and local management) would be beneficial.
- Possesses strong supervisory skills and the drive to work efficiently.