Title: Finance Business Partner
Career Level: E

Introduction to role:

Be part of history in the making. AstraZeneca is building its first biologics manufacturing campus in Singapore — a groundbreaking USD 1.5 billion investment that will serve as a global hub for innovation and excellence.

This state-of-the-art facility will deliver end-to-end Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) capabilities with different manufacturing units/buildings on one campus

Small molecule - synthetic chemical API production
Large molecule - monoclonal antibody manufacturing
Conjugation
Fill-and-finish operations, including sterile filling and lyophilization
Final secondary packaging

The campus will be equipped with modern digital and automation infrastructure, enabling autonomous manufacturing powered by artificial intelligence. In addition, it will be designed for carbon neutrality, embedding sustainability into every aspect of operations and setting a new benchmark for environmentally responsible biologics manufacturing.

We are looking for passionate individuals with shown experience who thrive in dynamic environments and bring a “make-it-happen” attitude. Joining us means giving to a project that will not only transform AstraZeneca’s global supply chain but also advance life-changing medicines for patients everywhere.

If you’re ready to shape the future of medicines and be part of a once-in-a-generation project, we want you on our team.

Are you ready to shape investment decisions that speed life-changing medicines to patients by elevating the performance of our manufacturing and supply operations? As Finance Business Partner at AstraZeneca, you will be the finance lead at the heart of our site’s capital governance, government incentives, and SAP S/4HANA transformation—turning data into action and action into measurable outcomes.

You will connect meticulous financial stewardship with operational excellence, ensuring our resources are deployed where they deliver the highest return. Your decisions will influence productivity, cost-to-serve, and capacity across a growing, diverse portfolio. What could you achieve by building integrated planning, costing, and reporting backbone that leaders trust to lead the business at pace?

Working shoulder-to-shoulder with Operations, Supply Chain, IT, and the international finance division, you will drive end-to-end ownership: from planning and product costing through critical metric performance and digitalization. You will lead through insight, robust modeling, and clear accountability—unlocking chances to improve efficiency and reinvest in science.

Accountabilities:

Government Incentives and Capital Governance:
Handle CAPEX/OPEX tracking and documentation for incentive programmes; ensure compliance with monitoring, review, progress, and budget requirements. Coordinate capital spend forecasting, capitalization policy compliance, return on investment assessments, value achievement, and hazard evaluation across the project portfolio.

Implementation of SAP's ECC system and the latest S/4HANA platform:
Serve as a core finance representative driving FI/CO configuration, product costing, and integration with supply chain modules. Support full SAP lifecycle activities including blueprinting, configuration, UAT, data migration, cutover, debut, and hypercare, ensuring flawless end-to-end process integration.

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting:
Co-ordinate the timing and processes of budget and forecast cycles involving volumes, costs, OPEX, headcount, and initiatives to improve efficiency. Ensure cross-functional alignment, Finance approvals, and accurate standard cost builds (BOM, routing, overhead rates).

Financial Stewardship and Compliance:
Perform detailed product costing and variance analysis (PPV, absorption, mix, yield, scrap); facilitate root-cause investigations and corrective actions with Operations. Handle inventory valuation drivers (cycle counts, write-offs, obsolescence, excess stock, product launch activities) and support working capital and cash optimisation.

Business Partnering:
Conduct monthly reviews with cost centre owners, develop robust financial models, run scenario analyses, and challenge assumptions to drive data-driven decision-making. Provide financial clarity and insights to Operations in order to find opportunities to optimize product and indirect costs and supervise benefits realisation for efficiency.

Performance Reporting and Metrics:
Track and analyze site KPIs (cost per unit/batch, backlog, utilisation, productivity). Prepare dashboards, insights, and executive reporting to influence operational performance.

Process Improvement and Digitalization:
Improve financial and business workflows by simplifying, standardizing, automating, and integrating digital tools. Identify and implement digital and AI-driven opportunities to improve reporting and decision intelligence.

Ways of Working and Continuous Improvement:
Partner with Global Finance Services (Kuala Lumpur) to ensure accurate, timely month-end close, reporting, and audit readiness. Champion Operational Excellence, support standardization across workflows, and chip in to global Operations Finance best-practice sharing.

Skills & Experience

Education & Credentials: Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; CPA/ACCA/CMA preferred.
Industry Background: 10–15+ years of finance experience in pharma, biologics, or sophisticated manufacturing; greenfield/startup experience advantageous.
SAP Expertise: Hanson experience implementing SAP ECC and S/4HANA, including FI/CO, product costing, crossfunctional integration, and lifecycle activities (blueprint to hypercare).
Manufacturing Finance: Strong command of standard costing, COGM, BOM/routing/overhead updates, NPI impacts, and KPIs such as OEE, yield, throughput, scrap, labour productivity, and absorption.
FP&A Excellence: Shown ability to deliver IFRSaligned close, prepare insightful management reporting (P&L, CAPEX, benchmarks), and complete budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning with clear risk communication.
Costing & Variance Analysis: Deep experience in product costing, PPV, mix, yield, scrap and inventory valuation with structured rootcause analysis and action plans.
Inventory & Working Capital: Expertise in cycle counts, writeoffs, obsolescence, slow-moving stock, NPI impacts, and working capital optimisation.
Capital Governance: Experience in CAPEX tracking, forecasting, capitalization policy compliance, return on investment analysis, and benefits realisation.
Demonstrates strong collaborator management and influence. Aligns S&OP with financial plans. Works with Operations/Supply Chain and supports senior leadership through robust modelling.
Digitalisation & Improvement: Consistent track record to identify automation opportunities, drive standardisation, support digital/AI transformation, and implement process improvements.
Leadership and work approaches include proficiency in documentation and audits. Adherence to cGMP and Conduct Guidelines is required. You need sophisticated modelling skills, including tax and incentive scenarios. Comfort working at Hanson in fast-growing, dynamic environments is vital.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here you will connect the engine room of science with the team of finance, helping to turn daring ideas into funded priorities that reach patients faster. You will work in a collaborative, high-energy environment where manufacturing, R&D, commercial and digital authorities come together to address real problems—whether standing up next-generation planning on S/4HANA or unlocking productivity that lets us serve more people across respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, immunology and renal diseases. We move with pace, value perseverance alongside ambition, and back you with the tools and partnerships to scale your impact from models to measurable outcomes in the real world.

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