Finance Director Central America, Caribbean and Venezuela

5 days ago


San Jose, United States Roche Full time
Finance Director Central America, Caribbean and Venezuela

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

We advance science so that we all have more time with the people we love.

As the Finance Manager (FM) for Roche Pharma CCAV, based in San Jose, Costa Rica, you will be part of the Enabling Team and will report to the General Manager of CCAV with a functional reporting line to the Finance Manager Latin America.

You will be jointly accountable for the affiliate performance, fostering an environment that promotes trust, transparency, and patient centricity that inspires and motivates teams to develop and adopt an agile way of working. You will be responsible for managing and overseeing the financial results of the affiliate and the whole financial operations. You are directly accountable for business finance, procurement, and treasury, while having close collaboration with accounting and taxes. Your financial responsibilities can be categorized as follows:

Insights

  • Proactively identify key challenges and opportunities, assessing their impact on the organization.
  • Identify industry trends, potential business opportunities, and risks; generating meaningful market insights.
  • Support employees to translate data into actionable insights, contributing to the long-term sustainability of the affiliate.
  • Stimulate an environment which encourages smart experimentation, rapid iterations, and the ability to scale.
  • Support network ecosystems in CCAV with the right finance structure and secure the right framework for decision making while balancing risks.
Long-term portfolio planning and resourcing strategy
  • Drive a simple and fit-for-purpose business planning process that captures key strategic directions.
  • Formulate a local finance strategy balancing global/regional requirements with local imperatives.
  • Engage with business partners in crafting and executing value-enhancing decisions through business performance (actuals vs. forecast).
  • Guide the business in meeting short to long-term goals by providing relevant financial and non-financial information.
As a natural leader, coach, and mentor, with a strong entrepreneurial mindset who can influence and enable decisions, you will thrive in a fast-paced high-performing environment where you can and will challenge the status quo, and be challenged.

In this position, you will be responsible for providing leadership & coaching for the functional areas Business Finance, Financial Accounting (in collaboration with Roche Services and Solutions team), Tax (dotted line), OneProcurement, Treasury & Credit Management. You will also be expected to coach individuals within other functions specifically to progress our network system for Therapeutic Areas across LATAM.

As part of your role in the Latam Finance team, you will lead and sponsor key strategic projects and initiatives (local, region, global, and cross-function). This is a key role for Business insight to foster Business Development in all the markets.

What’s expected from you could be categorized as:
VACC Leadership
  • As a Visionary, connecting the enterprise vision to people within the affiliate.
  • As an Architect, formulate strategy to reach our enterprise ambition and ensure affiliate architecture would be enabling factors to achieve those outcomes.
  • As a Catalyst, remove roadblocks, encourage smart-risk-taking, experimentation, and rapid learning.
  • As a Coach, empower people to make business decisions.
Entrepreneurship
  • Business-savvy professionals, focus on helping internal and external stakeholders to navigate the polarities in a complex world, challenging the status quo to create transformation solutions to drive outcomes that benefit patients, society, and Roche.
  • System thinking and end-to-end view along the whole value chain to identify business opportunities and able to mobilize external and internal networks to make things happen for impact.
  • Business partnerships internally and externally to drive negotiations, country vision, and business development.
External Facing
  • Active role in engaging ecosystem stakeholders, e.g., department of health, health tech, FinTech insurers and shaping policies that enable better access.
Culture builder
  • Lead together with senior management in promoting high standards of business behavior and ensure that all aspects of business practices comply with internal and external guidelines.
  • Encourage the team to speak up different perspectives, to bring new ideas for more efficient & impactful ways of supporting the business.
  • Continue to shape and implement new ways of working for the team, whilst contributing to the affiliate transformation journey.
Talent management
  • Help the team get different experiences to enrich their business understanding and capabilities based on their development areas & career interests.
  • Actively participate in feeding the global finance talent pipeline.
To be successful in this application, you will demonstrate:
  • Roche Values of Integrity, Courage & Passion, mindset and behaviors consistent with the role of leaders in agile organizations, characterized as Visionary, Architect, Coach, Catalyst.
  • An outstanding business acumen and strategic agility, strong entrepreneurial, influencing, and negotiation skills, with a proven ability to get things done without authority and highly adept at identifying solutions that will meet the needs of all involved parties.
  • A proven track record of building strong and sustainable relationships with internal and external partners and stakeholders.
  • An outstanding financial acumen with a proven track record of sound fiscal planning and management.
  • A minimum of 10 years of finance experience with time spent in a leadership position; a professional Accounting qualification (CPA, CA, ACA, CIMA) or University Degree/MBA and a proven record of ensuring financial governance and a strong network with the internal and external financial communities. Pharmaceutical knowledge is highly appreciated.
  • Spanish language proficiency.
Relocation benefits are available for this job posting.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity, and diversity.

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