Senior Business Analyst

Who we are: 

The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

What we do: 

A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

How we do it:

Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

Why we love it:

• As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Embrace opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.

• A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.

• We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.

We are a diverse, inclusive and innovative group who identify, build and deliver excellent shared services (which everyone can leverage) to enable AstraZeneca to grow and change at speed. We are passionate about simple process – making it easier to get vital repeatable services done – for our patients, for our customers, for our teams.

We focus on providing exceptional value that contributes to our company’s success and future by freeing up the business (our customers) to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines for patients. With the accomplishments, commitment and passion that you bring, I’m excited about what we will achieve together towards realizing AstraZeneca’s bold ambition.

About the role

To support business functions by providing financial guidance and to ensure that all stakeholders within the business area receive the financial information they require to drive the business performance. This may involve various financial analysis, eg: sales, pricing, investment allocation, costing & market data, and project work as well as support to the annual business update cycle and monthly reporting.

The P&R Senior Business Analyst is responsible for the end to end finance process supporting Global Commercial Operations primarily in the US and UK. Updating budgets, month-end closing and reporting, headcount reconciliation to include the expanding recharge process. 

Typical Accountabilities

To support business functions by providing financial guidance and to ensure that all stakeholders within the business area receive the financial information they require to drive the business performance. This may involve pricing analysis, costing and project work as well as support to the annual business update cycle and monthly reporting.

The Business Analyst will be viewed by finance and business customers as a financial modelling and analysis expert. The role broadly includes the following key components :

• Business Strategy & Decision Support

To provide support to key business & investment decisions, co-ordinating data collection from a variety of sources and formats, providing analysis in support of options and enabling appropriate decision making by the business and finance partners

• Business Performance

To be accountable for complex, manual accounting journals, to communicate monthly performance, provide analytical and data collection support to business planning processes and coordinate presentations for key business and finance review meetings.

• Continuous Improvement & Governance

To support continuous improvement in Finance processes and capabilities and to ensure compliance with financial governance and control frameworks as appropriate.

They will partner with members of a global network of Finance Analysts, sharing best practice and delivering valued support to the Business with global consistency and efficiency.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Qualified or part qualified finance professional.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a global organisation, preferably within the pharmaceuticals industry, and of the drug development life cycle and commercial aspects of the industry

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team and liaising with senior managers

• Exceptional 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

• Strong Excel/modelling skills.
  

WHY JOIN US?

We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions.

We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. Put simply, it’s because we make a significant impact. Everything we do matters.

SO, WHAT’S NEXT? 

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.