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The Position

Mission Statement

Finance Enterprise Partner is a critical role to maximize Revenue and Profitability by acting as a Co-driver and Guardian of the business. 

The role's core mission is to provide a holistic, forward-looking financial view of the Japanese In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) market, enabling leaders to make faster, better strategic decisions.

Finance Enterprise Partner is not a support function but an active co-pilot of business performance, sitting at the intersection of finance, strategy, and commercial execution to establish a profit-driven company culture to achieve long-term company ambition.

Core Responsibilities

Finance Enterprise Partner will mainly focus on three core pillars:

1. Financial Planning & Analysis

[Planning & Forecasting]

• Lead & facilitate the rolling forecast events: drive annual budget, monthly forecast, and mid-term planning, ensuring strict alignment with commercial strategy.

• Design and maintain comprehensive financial models: incorporate volume, price, product mix and cost assumptions to ensure robust and agile financial planning.

[Performance Monitoring & Visualization]

• Drive performance reviews with clear and actionable visualization: produce executive-level dashboards and visualize performance by portfolio, product, and segment to foster shared understanding and clarify current financial positioning for next actions. 

• Own the Gross Margin bridge analysis and prepare financial commentary, KPI scorecards, and forward-looking outlooks to clearly explain variances between actuals, budget, and prior periods with clear business narratives.

[Business Insights & Scenario Planning]

• Provide actionable business insights: proactively identify risks and opportunities in P&L and bring data-driven recommendations, focusing on actionable strategies beyond mere analysis. Translate macro market trends (pricing pressure, tender cycles, aging demographics) into quantified financial impact and scenario analysis.

2. Advanced management decision support

[Strategic Profitability Management]

• Evaluate and challenge current strategies for new and existing businesses. Conduct product-level and customer-level margin analysis to identify revenue growth opportunities, surface dilutive contracts, and prioritize high-value segments.

[Financial modeling for Complex Deals]

• Partner on strategic deals: build deal-level financial models, ROI analyses, pricing frameworks, and risk-adjusted projections. Participate in key customer strategic business reviews, providing top management with value-added financial insights and suggestions, bringing financial credibility to commercial discussions.

[Smart Risk Taking & Problem Solving]

• Enable "Smart Risks" for complex business cases: establish a collaborative system with business members to advance tough and highly complex business cases. Maximize value by providing expert quantitative analysis, consultation, and improvement proposals that drive strategic decisions.

3. Foster Profit-Driven Culture & Establish Organizational Governance

[Profit-Driven Culture]

• Foster financial acumen across the organization: contribute to profitability improvement and cultural change by embedding a mindset where all employees routinely engage in activities for profit improvement as their own responsibility.

[Cross-Functional Value Creation]

• Drive cross-functional financial initiatives: partner with Supply Chain, Commercial Operations, Finance Excellence and other groups to model the financial impact of cost reduction initiatives and portfolio rationalization.

[Organizational Governance & Compliance]

• Establish and enforce organizational governance: develop and implement internal guidelines aligned with global direction. Support internal and external audit processes with robust financial documentation and transparent reporting.

Essential Attributes & Mindset

The ideal candidate embodies the following attitudes:

• Proactive: Embodies a self-starter, self-learner, and proactively communicates with team members and stakeholders to build positive relationships.

• Act as One Team: Emphasizes teamwork and actively shares skills, experience, and knowledge to raise the level of the team/organization.

• Growth Mindset: Always contributes to the improvement of content and efficiency by proposing new methods and ideas.

• Holistic View: Thinks from a management point of view, reviews priorities, and contributes to the proposal and realization of optimal solutions for the team and the company as a whole.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• University Degree (Bachelor or Masters)

• Professional Experience: 5+ years of experience in Finance or Business Analyst roles (e.g., FP&A, Controller, Finance Business Partner, Management Accounting)

• Language Skills: Japanese = Native level / English = Business level

• Finance Knowledge: Solid finance and accounting knowledge (e.g., IFRS familiarity, or demonstrable proficiency equivalent to Nissho Boki Level 2)

• IT & Data Analysis Skills: IT skills focused on data analysis & visualization: MS Office, Google tools (e.g., various analysis using Excel Pivot Tables, creating presentation materials for management, implementing dashboards with Tableau, utilizing Gemini etc.)

• Stakeholder Alignment: Experience in stakeholder management with executives, leaders

• Cross Functional Collaboration: Experience in project management, applied analysis, and cross-functional business improvement activities

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Healthcare Industry Knowledge & Experience

• ERP System Experience  (e.g., SAP COPA module)

• Qualifications for Accounting/Business (e.g., Japanese CPA, USCPA, MBA)

 

 

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.