Senior Manager, Finance Business Partnering

The Opportunity

The purpose of the Senior Manager Finance Business Partnering role is to provide financial expertise and decision support to senior leaders across manufacturing operations and quality functions at the manufacturing site, delivering accurate, insightful, and financial performance analysis and guidance, supporting both short and long-term goals of the Flu Cell Culture.

Reporting to the Director, Finance Site Lead Finance Business Partner, you will have a primary focus on supporting production planning, quality of BoMs and routing, cost recoveries, product costing and tracking of OPEX spending across site manufacturing, supply and quality functions. You will have knowledge of all operational areas covering the CSL Seqirus business and provide technical guidance in financial policy, procedure and systems.

Additionally, you will provide finance business partner support to the US Pandemic business from an operational delivery perspective. Overall, a you will focus on internal and external customer needs and moving the Business Partnering team forward in a business process and systems perspective. You will be backup to the Lead Finance Business Partner on Site and act as emergency fill if required.

The Role

Business performance analysis and insights

• Provide site departments with financial information about cost performance against budgets and forecasts with explanation of variances against important performance drivers including narrative and input to manage and prevent issues and identify opportunities to improve our performance.
• Review and finalise monthly management reports and present outcomes to the Site leadership team and central FP&A team for consolidation, including monthly updates on site KPIs.
• Provide Finance Business Partner support to the US Govt Pandemic Contracting team from an Operations perspective

Target setting, budgeting and forecasting

• Manage the process for preparing annual budgets and quarterly forecast updates for the Site including headcount and people cost planning, cost center planning, calculation of Standard Costs and evaluating the impact of targeted operational improvement programs reviewing for accuracy, applicability, and strategic agreement.

Decision making support

• Provide financial analysis to support decision-making at the functional level considering network impact, and at the site delivery level.
• Lead all aspects of cost accounting activities, including calculating and reviewing production variances, determining Standards, overseeing allocations and recoveries and reviewing inventory valuations.
• Combine ad-hoc analysis with existing process to produce novel insights designed to improve financial decision-making at both the site and network level.
• Help evaluate business improvement and growth opportunities, including providing costing data for business development and capital investment projects, using the central FP&A team to help generate business cases and other complex modelling activities.
• Review financial submissions as required for different programs that CSL may enter into.

Process Improvement and Standardization

• Contribute to the improvement of financial systems and processes, collaborating with other CSL operating sites to achieve Global Standardization of systems/processes.
• Actively participate in ad-hoc projects to improve work processes.
• Lead the local implementation of globally aligned system and process improvements.
• Align local specific improvements/changes with global processes to avoid potential conflicts impacting standardisation of systems and processes.

External Reporting and Audit Support

• Deal with all internal and external audit queries.
• Support Federal, State and Local government audit and tax requirements.
• People and Team Leadership
• Develop others to build talent development for team succession.
• Manage performance with a focus on meeting service agreements, enhancing the level and standard of Finance Business Partnering while role modelling CSL Values.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or relevant Business Degree; CA/CPA or equivalent is a plus; MBA is a plus;
• 7+ years of Accounting and Finance experience with at least 5 years in Finance Business Partnering roles preferably in a manufacturing environment
• Detailed working knowledge of Standard Costing methodologies and processes, and inventory valuation and control
• Broad business / finance experience supported by advanced analytical skills.
• SAP experience is an advantage

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K, and PTO available from your first day of hire.

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About CSL

CSL is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of life-saving medicines, including those that treat haemophilia and immune deficiencies, as well as vaccines to prevent influenza. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives through innovation. Learn more about CSL.

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