Global Business Finance Manager
Join our global finance team and shape how strategy translates into measurable performance. We’re seeking a Global Business Finance Manager to own operational objectives, set policy, lead cross-functional teams, and guide financial decision-making that impacts multiple areas of the business.
As the Global Business Finance Manager, you will lead business finance support for assigned global functions, manage a high-performing team, and partner with senior leaders to drive value through planning, forecasting, reporting, cost control, investment governance, and decision support. You will own the delivery and quality of management information and provide financial challenge and governance across investments, capital projects, and business cases. As a people leader, you will set priorities, develop team capability, and foster collaboration across global and site finance teams.
What You’ll Do
- Lead annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range financial planning for assigned global functions; aligns financial plans with strategic priorities; challenges assumptions; and ensures timely, high-quality submissions and clear ownership by business leaders.
- Manage monthly performance and cost controlling for assigned global functions, ensuring accurate reporting, robust variance analysis, appropriate accruals, and disciplined follow-up with cost owners and site finance teams.
- Provide financial leadership and governance for global investments and capital projects by challenging business cases, monitoring financial performance and risks, supporting approval forums, and ensuring compliance with accounting and investment policies.
- Partner with senior global function leaders to interpret financial and operational performance, identify risks and opportunities, recommend corrective actions, and improve financial ownership and decision-making.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Business Finance team; set objectives and priorities; allocate work; review performance and output quality; builds succession and capability plans; and promote an inclusive, accountable, and collaborative team environment.
- rives continuous improvement in business finance processes, systems, controls, and reporting tools; standardise ways of working across functions and sites; and ensure efficient, compliant, and scalable delivery of finance services.
- Cross function collaborative and project team leadership assignment consistent with personal strategic, operational and technical leadership
- Foster a high-performance, fast-paced, and change-ready environment aligned to project-driven work.
Qualifications
- Academic degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in business finance, FP&A, business controlling, or management accounting.
- Demonstrated people-leadership or team-management experience.
- Strong track record in budgeting, forecasting, performance management, executive decision support, and financial governance in a large, complex, or international organization.
- Experience in biotech/pharma preferred.
- Proven success in fast-paced, changing, project-driven organizations.
- Strong analytical, conceptual, and strategic thinking skills with the ability to make sound decisions amid ambiguity.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills across multiple levels (including senior leadership).
- High integrity and sound judgment under ambiguity.
- Global/multisite experience and time-zone collaboration.
You’ll Succeed Here If You
- Balance strategic insight with hands-on execution.
- Communicate complex issues simply and persuasively.
- Build scalable processes and policies without slowing the business.
- Elevate teams through coaching, clarity, and accountability.
Why Join Us
- High visibility and impact across multiple functions and initiatives.
- Opportunity to shape policy, drive outcomes, and lead teams at scale.
- Collaborative, mission-driven culture with room to grow.
This is a global position based at our Hillerød site in Denmark. In this role you will support all our FUJIFILM Biotechnologies sites.
Application
Please upload your CV and cover letter as soon as possible. The posting will be removed once the right candidate has been selected.
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FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is an industry-leading Biologics Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with locations in Hillerød, Denmark, Teesside, UK, RTP, North Carolina, College Station, Texas, USA and Toyama, Japan. We use our skills, dedication and ambition to enable impact for the world’s most innovative biotech and biopharma companies reimagining healthcare’s potential. We work across the entire lifecycle of our customers’ products – enabling success throughout. Every cure, vaccine, biologic, and advancement we contribute to starts with our people and our passion. We fuel one another’s passion, help accelerate progress, expand capabilities, strengthen innovation, and improve processes to improve lives.