As a global finance business partner you will be responsible for the cost controlling and partnering of FDB global cost areas with a focus on IT, Quality and Science and Innovation. You will play a key role in the budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting and financial planning processes to ensure alignment with objectives and cost optimization opportunities. In your partnering role you will collaborate and drive performance through transparency of data facilitating accountability and self-service for cost owners as well as providing guidance on governance processes.  

The work we do at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We’re growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. We’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy, and drive what FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies calls Genki. Join us and discover a community that thrives on diversity and never scares away from a complex challenge. At FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, you determine what’s possible. 

Principal Accountabilities:

• Be a Strategic Partner: play a key role in the budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes related to global costs areas, ensuring alignment with global objectives and identifying opportunities for cost optimization.

  Enhance financial awareness and education within the global functions. (20%)

• Global cost controlling: Lead the cost controlling for specific global cost areas including global IT, Quality and Science and Innovation. Work closely with the Global IT Finance Business controller providing guidance on cost control, opportunities and cost optimization. Additionally liaise with all FDB sites to ensure accuracy of the data reported. (30%)
• Global capex project controlling and partnering:  Lead the cost control of global capex projects initiated by global functions, with a particular emphasis on global IT, while also encompassing other relevant global functions as appropriate. Provide guidance and support throughout the project governance and approval process, ensuring that business cases supporting the request are robust and underpinned by a comprehensive financial rationale. Serve as a representative of global finance on the IT portfolio board and in other business forums as needed. Ensure that global projects are accurately budgeted and accounted for at FDB sites, adhering to relevant accounting standards and policy.  (25%)
• Drive Performance with Data: Analyse financial results, spot trends, and provide insights that empower leadership to make data-driven decisions. Drive accountability to global cost owners through meaningful, transparent data, ability to self-serve, as well as providing finance business partnering to these functions. Provide transparency through reporting the total cost of global functions including local and global costs. (10%)
• Tell the Story Behind the Numbers: Prepare and present reports, business cases, and performance analyses—turning complex data into clear, actionable insights for leadership (10%)
• Process Improvement: Strive for continuous improvement supporting the enhancement of finance processes, systems and tools for great accuracy, efficiency and compliance (5%)
• All other duties as assigned

Minimum Education and Experience Required:

• Master’s degree in Finance or Economics required
• 5+ years of experience within Business Finance Partnering, FP&A or Business Controlling ideally in a large global organisation  
• Professional Accounting Certification (e.g CPA, ACA, CIMA, ACCA etc)
• Ability to work effectively with multiple functional areas 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High level of attention to the detail with strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build relationships and trust across the organisation. 
• Strong analytical skills combined with the ability to deliver complex data in a structured and result-oriented manner 
• Drive change and alignment with the right problem-solving attitude. 
• Structured working approach that enables management of several projects simultaneously. 
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Skilled in stakeholder management, with the confidence to collaborate with senior leaders across global functions

Although this may be a hybrid posting, the incumbent must reside within a reasonable commuting distance from one of the FDB US (California, Texas or North Carolina) locations.  The US salary range for this position is $110,000 to $172,000.  Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.

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