Finance Enterprise Partner

Finance Enterprise Partner At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters. The Position Mission Statement Finance Enterprise Partner is a critical role to maximize Revenue and Profitability by acting as a Co-driver and Guardian of the business. The role's core mission is to provide a holistic, forward-looking financial view of the Japanese In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) market, enabling leaders to make faster, better strategic decisions. Finance Enterprise Partner is not a support function but an active co-pilot of business performance, sitting at the intersection of finance, strategy, and commercial execution to establish a profit-driven company culture to achieve long-term company ambition. Core Responsibilities Finance Enterprise Partner will mainly focus on three core pillars: 1. Financial Planning & Analysis Planning & Forecasting: Lead and facilitate rolling forecast events: drive annual budget, monthly forecast, and mid-term planning, ensuring strict alignment with commercial strategy. Design and maintain comprehensive financial models incorporating volume, price, product mix and cost assumptions to ensure robust and agile financial planning. Performance Monitoring & Visualization: Drive performance reviews with clear and actionable visualization. Produce executive-level dashboards and visualize performance by portfolio, product, and segment to foster shared understanding and clarify current financial positioning for next actions. Own the Gross Margin bridge analysis and prepare financial commentary, KPI scorecards, and forward-looking outlooks to explain variances between actuals, budget, and prior periods with clear business narratives. Business Insights & Scenario Planning: Provide actionable business insights by proactively identifying risks and opportunities in P&L and bringing data-driven recommendations, focusing on actionable strategies beyond mere analysis. Translate macro market trends (pricing pressure, tender cycles, aging demographics) into quantified financial impact and scenario analysis. 2. Advanced management decision support Strategic Profitability Management: Evaluate and challenge current strategies for new and existing businesses. Conduct product-level and customer-level margin analysis to identify revenue growth opportunities, surface dilutive contracts, and prioritize high-value segments. Financial modeling for Complex Deals: Partner on strategic deals by building deal-level financial models, ROI analyses, pricing frameworks, and risk-adjusted projections. Participate in key customer strategic business reviews, providing top management with value-added financial insights and suggestions and bringing financial credibility to commercial discussions. Smart Risk Taking & Problem Solving: Enable smart risks for complex business cases by establishing a collaborative system with business members to advance tough and highly complex cases. Maximize value through expert quantitative analysis, consultation, and improvement proposals that drive strategic decisions. 3. Foster Profit-Driven Culture & Establish Organizational Governance Profit-Driven Culture: Foster financial acumen across the organization and contribute to profitability improvement and cultural change by embedding a mindset where all employees routinely engage in profit-improvement activities as their own responsibility. Cross-Functional Value Creation: Drive cross-functional financial initiatives, partnering with Supply Chain, Commercial Operations, Finance Excellence and other groups to model the financial impact of cost-reduction initiatives and portfolio rationalization. Organizational Governance & Compliance: Establish and enforce organizational governance by developing and implementing internal guidelines aligned with global direction. Support internal and external audit processes with robust financial documentation and transparent reporting. Essential Attributes & Mindset The ideal candidate is proactive, a self-starter and self-learner who communicates proactively with team members and stakeholders to build positive relationships. They act as one team, sharing skills, experience and knowledge to raise the level of the team and organisation. They have a growth mindset, proposing new methods and ideas to improve content and efficiency. They take a holistic management view, review priorities, and contribute to optimal solutions for the team and company. Required Qualifications & Skills • University degree (Bachelor or Masters). • At least 5 years’ experience in Finance or Business Analyst roles, such as FP&A, Controller, Finance Business Partner or Management Accounting. • Japanese: Native; English: Conversational. • Solid finance and accounting knowledge, such as IFRS familiarity or demonstrable proficiency equivalent to Nissho Boki Level 2. • IT and data-analysis skills including MS Office, Google tools, Excel Pivot Tables, management presentation materials, Tableau dashboards and tools such as Gemini. • Stakeholder-management experience with executives and leaders. • Experience in project management, applied analysis and cross-functional business-improvement activities. Preferred Qualifications & Skills • Healthcare industry knowledge and experience. • ERP system experience, such as the SAP COPA module. • Accounting or business qualifications, such as Japanese CPA, USCPA or MBA. Employment Status and Period Employment status: Permanent. Probationary period: Yes, in principle three months from the date of hire; the period may be extended if the Company deems it necessary. Job Description Initial scope of work upon hire: Finance Enterprise Partner. The employee may be transferred to other duties in the future. Work Location Initial work location upon hire: Head Office, Shinagawa Season Terrace, 1-2-70 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075. The work location may be changed to any location designated by the Company, including remote work locations; nationwide transfer or relocation may apply. In principle, remote work is limited to a maximum of 8 times per month. Compensation & Salary Base salary (monthly): JPY 400,000. The amount is determined in accordance with Company regulations, taking capabilities and experience into account. Housing allowance (monthly): JPY 22,000. Fixed overtime allowance (monthly): JPY 68,065, paid as fixed overtime pay equivalent to 20 hours of overtime, regardless of whether actual overtime is worked. Additional premium wage will be paid for overtime exceeding 20 hours. Bonus: once a year (March). Salary increase: once a year (April). Other allowances may include housing, sales, field, overtime, holiday-work, late-night-work, commuting and separated-family allowances. Allowances are paid in accordance with Company regulations. Working Hours & Breaks Standard working hours: 7 hours 45 minutes per day. Flextime system applies. Standard working-hours window: 8:30–17:15, with a 60-minute break. Core time: 11:00–15:00. Overtime and holiday work may be required when deemed necessary for business operations. Holidays & Leaves Holidays include Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, New Year’s holidays (December 29–January 4), Foundation Day (August 1), and other days deemed necessary by the Company. Company-specific paid leave is granted in addition to the statutory number of days. Special leave includes marriage leave, partner’s paternity/childbirth leave, bereavement leave, My Special Day leave, summer leave, relocation leave, disaster leave and refresh leave. Benefits & Welfare Social insurance: health insurance, employees’ pension insurance, employment insurance and industrial accident compensation insurance. Measures to Prevent Passive Smoking Non-smoking on the entire premises (fully indoor non-smoking). Company Name (Recruiter) Roche Diagnostics K.K. Who we are A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advancing science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact. Let’s build a healthier future, together. Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.