FP&A Lead, Japan

At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit https://global.allerganaesthetics.com/. Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.

Reporting to the Japan Finance Head, this role will provide support in liaising with local finance teams and commercial stakeholders for plans, forecasts and actuals to provide accurate, timely and informative data.

Partnering to commercial team to support the decision-making needs of the leadership team to drive business by providing financial perspective. This person aims to improve process and profit.

1. Forecasting, Budgeting, Strategy planning

• Lead the financial planning & reporting processes
• Timely address of queries from various stakeholders
• Analyze performance (tracking revenue & expenses regularly) and provide variance explanations and recommendations for operational efficiency and provide business counseling to relevant stakeholders, with the objective of adding value to the business.
• Understand, communicate and explain variance within the business. Identify root causes and follow up actions for each.

2. Business Partnering

• Partner with the commercial team to drive commercial / financial objectives
• Involved in business decision making proactively by providing financial perspective.
• Question and challenge to business constructively for better decision
• Support commercial team to develop business case for NPI, new business model, etc
• Monitor business development and interpret operation results against long term /short term plans by identifying and illustrating the root cause for deviation and proposing best practice solutions & advice to commercial team with insight and to improve the efficiency of business operation.
• Prepare monthly financial reports with actual analysis, advice on the key findings, strengths & weakness and profit results to support steering future business development.
• Identify areas/opportunities of costs savings as well as sales increase in business operations

3. Ad-hoc Projects, Process Improvement and Expense Efficiency

• To take leadership or to provide supports towards any business or finance projects as they arise.
• To identify and drive continuous process improvement, particularly in the area of financial planning.
• To identify and drive continuous process standardization and simplification to improve efficiency.

Education and Experience

• BA or MA in Accounting/Economics/Law/Business
• Experience in finance business partner in multinational company. Pharma/medical device/OTC is preferred

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies (includes Licenses, Credentials)

• Strong communication skill to work with diverse audiences, at multiple levels, through various format.
• Structured, agile, flexible with logical thinking
• Change management
• Strong business acumen, coupled with a good balance of strategic thinking and operational rigor
• Strong compliance and integrity mindset
• Excellent command of English and Japanese skills in reading, writing & speaking

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