Director – Finance Business Partner

The Opportunity

As a member of the US Commercial Finance Team, the Director Finance Business Partner serves as a trusted financial advisor to senior leaders across Marketing, Sales, Healthcare Systems, Patient Experience/Operations and Strategic Pricing and Contracting. You will be embedded within the business, delivering strategic financial insights, optimizing commercial investments and ensuring data-driven outcomes that accelerate growth and short- and long-term value. You'll bring a, a commitment to process excellence and experience navigating the complex value chain in the US pharmaceutical industry.

The Role

Strategic Financial Leadership & Business Partnering:

• Be the principal financial partner to executives in the US region
• Shape commercial and marketing strategies with financial guidance to ensure resource allocation, profitability, and Return on investment.
• Support brand planning, new product launches, and go-to-market strategies through forecasting, financial modeling, and performance tracking.

Revenue & Contracting Optimization:

• Create analytics and strategic insight for sales performance, pricing, and contracting across payer segments (including Medicaid, Medicare, and Commercial).
• Collaborate with (Contracting, Market Access, Government Pricing, Patient Services) to evaluate Gross-to-Net components and improve contra revenue elements (e.g., rebates, chargebacks, admin fees).

Planning, & Analysis:

• Lead revenue forecasting, net sales analysis, and expense planning within Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Demand Review Management (DRM) cycles.
• Build scenario models to assess performance risk, growth opportunities, and resource trade-offs.
• Develop and track indicators for Sales, Volume, GTN, Marketing Spend Effectiveness, and Margin.

Commercial Operations Support:

• Influence decision-making across the Commercial Operations responsibility by providing clear financial insights.
• Lead the consolidation and financial oversight of operational expenses across areas translating functional plans into a cohesive financial outlook, delivering executive-level performance narratives that highlight important causes, risks and opportunities, and applying insights to support prioritization of resources and optimization of investments.

Delivery of the Finance Strategy:

Support delivery of the Finance Strategy and have collective ownership for Global Finance team development plans. Manage without formal authority in matrix environment.

Internal Control:

Provide external financial audit support at half-year and full year, including preparation of documentation and manage and, working with auditors to provide business insight for items as requested and resolution of issues raised following agreed timelines.

Financial Processes:

Support ensuring that financial processes follow CSL policies and that proper controls are in place, as applicable.

Team Leadership & Development:

Support and mentor a team, providing guidance and professional development opportunities. Foster a collaborative environment that inspires results.

Global Financial Projects:

Contribute to projects, global finance plans, transformation projects and process optimization efforts as assigned

Your Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in business planning, commercial analysis, or business partnering roles, preferably in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• 5+ years in commercial finance in a business facing role where there is demonstrated understanding of the value chain in US life sciences, preferably in rare disease.
• Openness to explore new technology, process improvements.
• You will collaborate with multiple levels and within a region.
• Advanced skills in Excel and experience with ERP and BI systems (e.g., SAP S/4, BW/BI, BPC, SAC, Power BI, QlikView, Tableau). Familiarity with Model N is a plus.

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Our Benefits

CSL employees that work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for benefits effective day 1. We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones. CSL offers resources and benefits, from health care to financial protection, so you can focus on doing work that matters. Our benefits are designed to support the needs of our employees at every stage of their life. Whether you are considering starting a family, need help paying for emergency back up care or summer camp, looking for mental health resources, planning for your financial future, or supporting your favorite charity with a matching contribution, CSL has many benefits to help achieve your goals.

Please take the time to review our benefits site to see what’s available to you as a CSL employee.

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.

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