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.

Finance at AstraZeneca has a clear vision to drive growth through innovation by being trusted partners who add value through connection and innovation in support of the company’s purpose and ambition:

• We’re trusted partners: we are more than an enabling function or service provider, we’re a true and trusted partner who works with the business to unlock value for our stakeholders and patients.

• We’re connecting: we connect with each other across geographies - breaking down silos and acting as one team. Our leaders are connected to our people. We leverage ideas, systems and data, connect knowledge and create actionable insights and predictions.

• We’re innovating: we identify new opportunities to introduce, adopt or modify effective ideas to solve problems. We find solutions to both existing challenges and anticipated changing needs. We use innovation to simplify, to make a bigger impact and to give us a competitive advantage.

• We’re adding value: We know what it takes to deliver value, a laser focus on our strategic priorities and key enablers.

The Finance Business Architecture Team has an important part to play in delivering this vision through leading the integration and effective management of Finance processes, information, organisation, and technology.

Looking forward to our vision for 2025,  this role is one of a number of permanent and fixed term opportunities to play an important part in building and delivering the strategy for Finance, including our move to the next generation of SAP.

If you can bring ideas and fresh thinking to the table, embrace the thought of taking ownership of the Finance vision, and can imagine yourself playing a key part in making it a reality, then we want to hear from you.

What you’ll do

In line with the development of the Finance strategy and roadmap of projects, you will work with the project team to provide Finance Operating Model expertise in support of the design and implementation of business processes, systems and ways of working. As an expert you will lead the successful development and deployment of the target finance operating model, structures, and governance framework along with supporting the identification and implementation of key capability requirements vital to embedding change.

• Your primary goal is to partner with the project team and Finance stakeholders to identify how the target state and changes to systems, processes and ways of working will impact the future Finance organisation. This includes validating the operating structure, ensuring it is aligned to the vision and strategy, and defining key role groups, Finance sub function accountabilities and personas, whilst optimising Finance processes, information, data & technology.

• Work with the Finance Governance Director to ensure current and future finance change projects include operating model, organisation design, governance and capability considerations and impacts as part of their scope and plans as required.

• In conjunction with HR, define standards and governance required for new organisation structures and design for projects on the Finance roadmap.

• You will be a key consult on the implementation of the optimum Finance operating model and associated Organisation Design, ensuring any resulting people impacts are led by HR in line with the people implementation plan.

• Work with the Finance L&D team to identify and find solutions for capability requirements and solutions for the future state operating model and structure. You will be a key part of the project teams to understand the impact of change on roles at an individual and organisational level.

• Collaborating with HR and L&D as well as other relevant stakeholders to provide Finance expertise organisation and capability consultancy as required by the business in support of priority Finance related projects

Essential for the role

• Experience of working across the Finance organisation with an understanding and experience of future looking and progressive Finance processes, information, data and technology and how these work together in the most optimum operating model

• A Finance operating model and organisation design specialist with significant experience of operating at a similar level in a complex, global organisation

• Ability to influence senior leaders, collaborate, build rapport and develop trust.  Clear communication and ability to articulate the benefits of good organisation design

• Keeps up to date and uses insights on Finance best  practice, trends and developments to story tell, influence and inform

Desirable for the role

• Experience in project management, with a proven track record of leading the operating model and change workstream of global Finance Business Transformation programmes

• Experience in defining capability requirements, L&D strategies, and managing from plan to execution.

• Post graduate or professional qualification in OD, Change Management, Process or Performance Excellence

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

Competitive salary & benefits apply

Opening date: 21st June 2021

Closing date: 5th July 2021

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.