Senior Analyst, CSL Behring Planning and Reporting

For our Finance department, we are looking for a Senior Analyst, CSL Behring Planning and Reporting

The Senior Analyst, Planning and Reporting plays an important role in supporting financial processes and delivering accurate and timely financial planning, reporting, and analysis for the CSL Behring business, focused on Commercial Operations for Europe/Canada and Europe Midsize clusters and its affiliate countries.

This role delivers the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes, ensuring alignment across the respective Commercial Operations Finance Business Partners. This position will ensure the Commercial Operations team has the financial insights needed to drive business performance and achieve its strategic objectives. The incumbent in this role will interact closely with and support the responsible CSL Behring Commercial Finance Business Partners ensuring best-in-class financial processes, data driven insights, and performance excellence. This position demands a commitment to process excellence. The Senior Analyst will collaborate with the Operations FBPs, the Senior Manager, Planning and Reporting – EU/CAN & Midsize Markets, and leaders from cross-functional Commercial teams to drive financial planning, reporting and operational efficiency in CSL Behring’s Commercial business.

This role reports into Senior Manager, CSL Behring Financial Planning & Reporting, ComOps EU/CAN & Midsize

Job Purpose

• Manage the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes including calendars, coordination, and communications across particular CSLB Commercial Operations clusters and affiliate countries
• Develop and implement standardised financial planning tools, templates, and methodologies
• Support the Finance Business Partners in the preparations of budgets and forecast and other planning requirements in SAP BPC
• Support the updates to the Planning Activity calendar
• Collaborate with leadership teams to align financial plans with strategic objectives and business goals
• Manage the preparation and presentation of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-term financial plans to operations and finance management
• Manage the monthly, half-year, and year-end reporting cycles for CSL Behring Commercial Operations across affiliates within EU/CAN and Midsize clusters
• Develop key financial metrics, dashboards, and reporting tools
• Provide variance analysis (budget vs. actual) and work with functional leaders to understand and address variances
• Provide scenario planning, data driven insights
• Champion process excellence in financial planning and reporting activities
• Support initiatives to streamline financial reporting processes and reduce cycle times for budgeting and forecasting
• Collaborate and actively participate in financial systems and process improvements (e.g., automation, digitisation
• Serve as a key financial partner to the Commercial FBPs, providing financial insights to drive decision-making

Your Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or other Business related discipline
• CPA/CA or MBA a plus
• 3+ years of experience in FP&A, financial planning, reporting, or related fields
• An understanding of production operations or commercial processes
• Experience with budget and forecast cycles
• Leading the month end close and reporting process
• Experience with dashboarding and visualization software (e.g. PowerBi)
• Experience in global manufacturing - pharmaceutical industry
• Strong organisation and process management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills who builds bridges and helps develop collaboration
• Strong numerical and analytical skills - ability to understand and succinctly explain large / complex concepts
• Microsoft Office skills, including Excel and PowerPoint
• Analysis for Office (preferable)

We look forward to receiving your application

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

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At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

 To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.