Strategic Finance Business Partner

Position Overview

As part of our Global Finance team, you’ll partner with senior leaders, playing a critical role in our growth journey. You will have a comprehensive understanding of all the services offerings of our business, the markets in which we operate and our asset capabilities and profitability. This role focuses on partnering with global functions to evaluate new investment opportunities, whether through growth or acquisition. You will build financial models, challenge assumptions, develop scenarios with an understanding of risks, and enhance financial awareness and influence decisions to achieve four times revenue growth by 2030.

Company Overview

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.

Job Description

What You’ll Do:

• Be a Strategic Partner: Partner global functions supporting the financial appraisal of new investment opportunities either through organic growth or acquisition. Go beyond the finance boundary challenging and influencing assumptions and scenarios understanding the investment strategies and risk associated with them. Present and report the impact of these initiatives on the long-term finance plans. Enhance financial awareness and education within these global functions.
• Support our asset strategy: Develop financial analysis linked to our asset strategy, modelling scenarios, making recommendations and influencing decisions for the path toward four times revenue growth to FY30. This will involve working closely with the FDB site leadership and finance teams.
• Be the finance lead on global projects: Serve as the finance lead for projects initiated by global functions, ensuring a robust business case throughout the approval and execution process. Ensure finance requirements are integrated during project scoping, and consult stakeholders to consider various financial elements effectively.
• Ensure adherence to governance: Work in close collaboration with the global functions providing 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.
• Tell the Story Behind the Numbers: Prepare and present reports, business cases, and performance analyses—turning complex data into clear, actionable insights for leadership
• Champion Process Improvement: Lead initiatives to enhance our finance systems, processes and tools. Own the template for business case appraisal ensuring a consistent and repeatable approach to financial appraisal and scenario analysis.
• Support M&A activity: On an ad hoc basis for potential future M&A activities get involved with all stages of the deal process from the initial negotiation, due diligence and integration from signing to closing

Who You Are:

•  Currently a Senior Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner, or similar, with solid FP&A experience
•  An analytical thinker who thrives on using data to drive strategic decisions
•  Skilled in stakeholder management, with the confidence to collaborate with senior leaders across global functions
•  A proactive communicator who enjoys collaborating across teams and geographies
•  Ready to take on a global role with real impact

Why Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies?

•  Global Impact: Be part of a mission-driven company that’s advancing life-changing biotechnologies
•  Career Growth: We invest in our people—your next big opportunity starts here
•  Innovation-Driven Culture: At FDB, your passion – your Genki – is your power and we empower you to define what Genki means to you.

Minimum Background and Education Requirements

• Master’s degree in finance or economics or professional Accounting ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CPA, or equivalent.
• 10 years’ experience with Finance Partnering or FP&A in a global or international impacting role preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience working with multi-site, multinational organizations across various time zones, with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with M&A and finance integration is preferable.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Able to build trust and maintain effective and credible relationships with key stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills that facilitate delivering concise information and successful influencing of senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively with multiple functional areas
• Self-motivated, systematic, and dynamic approach to work; capable of challenging the status quo confidently and effectively.
• Strong analytical abilities for presenting complex data in a structured, result-oriented manner, with high attention to detail.
• Appreciation for the importance of strategy in driving business forward
• Strong analytical thinking skills with a high attention to detail
• Uses data to drive decisions
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate and convey concise information.
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Although this may be a hybrid posting, the incumbent must reside within a reasonable commuting distance from one of the FDB US locations (California, Texas or North Carolina). 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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EEO Information

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