Gcc Cfo

**About AstraZeneca**

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person

**Responsibilities**:
As Cluster CFO you will join the GCC Senior Leadership Team and Middle East and Africa Finance Leadership Team, where you will have the following responsibilities;
- Oversees controlling, finance business partnering, purchasing & administration. Meets regularly with team members to keep informed and to offer direction.
- Lead financial planning cycles (RBU, LTP, MTP, TA Strategy, & LBE) processes including: global market/regional guidance coordination, performance targets and incentives, ROI analysis, presentation development & delivery to senior stakeholders, and short and long-term financial strategy.
- Develop and implement appropriate systems for business plan preparation and documentation, sales, cost and capital expenditure budgeting, cost control and follow up/deviation analysis and explanation.
- Partners with Country President and Senior Leadership Team to support strategic implementation and ensure effective financial decision making, particular around P&L management, investments, and resource allocation and optimisation
- Interact with other managers to provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analyses, reports, and recommendations
- Leadership of financial reporting including; development, consolidation, and delivery of monthly reporting. Providing financial insight and foresight to support the delivery of our strategic and commercial goals.
- Reviews reports to analyse projections of sales and profit against actual figures, budgeted expenses against final totals, and suggests methods of improvements as appropriate.
- Oversees the management and coordination of all fiscal reporting activities ensuring for the correct and timely internal and external reporting for Tax, Balance Sheet and P&L.
- Owns capital expenditure budgets, working capital management and cash flow optimization.
- Establish and maintain appropriate internal control processes in the frame of the company’s Financial Control Framework
- Responsible for the successful performance against internal/external audits (no material findings).
- Ensures that a culture of ethics and integrity is embedded in all business practices. Complies with the Code of Ethics, all relevant supporting policies, standards and procedures.
- Ensures lean and effective operations of the activities under his/her control. Drives an agenda of continuous improvement and simplification for the Finance function, works in partnership with GFS, aligned with the global finance transformation agenda
- Ensures the finance function delivers value added insights to key stakeholders in the Cluster and Area
- Implement and maintain appropriate business risk management strategies in accordance with AstraZeneca’s policies and oversee legal compliance requirements of AstraZeneca
- Establish and implement short
- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures
- Coaches and develops a team of finance professionals to excellent performance, creating a supportive work environment where everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
- Drive teams to focus decision support activities, initiate changes to improve working practices and processes in Finance and communicate these among the Finance Network.
- Member of the GCC Senior Leadership Team and Middle East and Africa Area Finance Leadership Team and leads or contributes to above market initiatives as they arise

**Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience**

**Essential for the role**:

- Degree in accounting or finance
- Previous experience within a Pharma or FMCG background
- Significant related work experience in accounting, finance, or business analysis
- Strong Business Acumen (Pharma preferred)
- Strong analytical skills and experience interpreting a strategic vision into an operational model
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and draw conclusions from less than certain data.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to optimally work with cross-functional teams and experienced stakeholder management in a matrix organization (IFS, GFO, CP & SLT etc)
- Analytical thinking - logically breaking problems down into their essential elements: carrying out diagnosis and development solutions.
- Flexibility - ability to alter behaviour and opinions in the light of new information or changing situations.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, including oral & written
- Good understanding of functional cost drivers
- Use of/exposure to general office and financial systems, e.g. SAP, Business Intelligence so