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Pierre Fabre

Allogeneic cell therapies development and commercialization

Finance Transformation Director

Enterprise ApplicationsPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A BAC + 5 qualification from a business school, accounting expertise qualification, or university degree in finance, management, or accounting is required.
  • Significant experience in financial management, business transformation, or management consulting is required.
  • Certification in project management or Lean, such as Black Belt, is a plus.
  • Proficiency in financial management and business intelligence tools is required.
  • In-depth knowledge of financial processes is required.
  • Business knowledge in management control, financial analysis, credit management, consolidation, accounting standards, and financial regulations is required.
  • Experience implementing ERP and EPM solutions such as SAP or Oracle is required.
  • Fluent English is required.
  • The candidate must be able to lead and manage multidisciplinary teams in projects.
  • The candidate must have communication and change-management skills.
  • The candidate must be able to analyze complex data and conduct impact analyses in complex, evolving IT environments.
  • The candidate must be able to arbitrate, set priorities, and decline requests when appropriate.

Responsibilities

  • Define, implement, and monitor transformation initiatives within Finance to optimize financial processes, improve operational efficiency, and support strategic company growth.
  • Mobilize and unite Finance teams around digitization, automation, and standardization.
  • Lead cross-functional productivity improvement projects covering organization, processes, and information systems, including shared service centers or regional hubs.
  • Ensure the performance of Finance processes and information systems, improving efficiency across back-office operations and performance analysis.
  • Coordinate and lead maintenance and functional enhancements of Finance applications in France and internationally.
  • Develop and implement a financial transformation strategy aligned with company-wide goals, including the Scale up 2032 strategic plan.
  • Identify financial process improvement opportunities and propose innovative solutions, including Finance data and artificial intelligence use cases.
  • Develop dashboards and performance indicators to track financial transformation progress.
  • Regularly report project progress and results to Finance leadership.
  • Ensure processes are consistent and simplified within the department.
  • Proactively propose process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce costs, and implement them in close collaboration with operational teams.
  • Implement tools and technologies to automate and optimize financial processes.
  • Own end-user SAP support for Finance and Purchasing requisition processes and ensure the business operation of applications more broadly.
  • Propose and prioritize system enhancements in line with efficiency goals and the core model, particularly for French or international ERP systems, and participate in implementation.
  • Implement actions to support user adoption of Finance tools.
  • Work closely with IT teams and support operational teams.
  • Lead Finance process-improvement projects, including budgeting and digitization of accounting processes, ensuring deadlines, budgets, and objectives are met.
  • Facilitate and coordinate Finance stakeholders in cross-group projects affecting Finance.
  • Work closely with other departments, including Human Resources, IT, and Operations, to integrate transformation initiatives.
  • Anticipate and plan change-management actions for Finance and cross-functional projects.
  • Communicate new financial practices and tools to teams and provide training.
  • Support teams in adopting changes and ensure a smooth transition.
  • Define and implement Finance data governance, including roles and responsibilities, quality, documentation, lifecycle, usage practices, security, confidentiality, access, and exposure rules, in coordination with IT and relevant stakeholders.
  • Manage Finance data reference sets and governance rules and share them with business teams to ensure common rules.
  • Make reliable, standardized, documented, reusable Finance data available through the Data Marketplace and reporting tools.
  • Facilitate Finance Data Hub contributors and coordinate with other Data Hubs, Finance teams, and IT.
  • Support adoption of data products, develop data literacy within Finance, and monitor usage to guide future improvements.
  • Manage the department by setting operational objectives and organizing activities, managing, coordinating, and monitoring work, and contributing to employees' individual and collective professional development.

Desired Qualifications

  • Project-management or Lean certification, such as Black Belt.

About the Company

Pierre Fabre

Allogeneic cell therapies development and commercialization

Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals (US) develops and commercializes allogeneic cell therapies for oncology and rare diseases. It focuses on bringing next-generation, donor-derived cell therapies to patients with high unmet medical needs and deepens partnerships with biotech companies to advance products through clinical manufacturing and distribution in the US.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Seed
Total funding
$13.8M
Headquarters
Toulouse, France
Founded
1951

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