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Business Planning & Analysis Lead

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Los Angeles, CA
Senior level
Los Angeles, CA
Senior level
The Business Planning & Analysis Lead is responsible for financial analysis, reporting, budget development, and forecasting. They will collaborate across functions to enhance operational profitability, manage investment risks, and optimize financial metrics. The role requires strong leadership and communication skills to guide the operations finance team and ensure effective financial review processes.
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Job Description
You will be an integral part of the OLT (operations leadership team), partnering with SC, MFG, Quality, and Eng to manage our KPIs.
What you Will Do:
Financial analysis & Reporting:

  • Lead all aspects of cost of goods and inventory management processes. Establish efficient and effective processes and measure what matters in a way that provides appropriate real time insights
  • Drive standardized and clear financial reporting to key site level and business level metrics (scrap, yield, opex, productivity metrics, cost accounting) to ensure sound manufacturing execution and behaviors are applied by plant operation teams
  • Develop robust scorecards and dashboards to provide visibility on performance


Planning & Forecasting

  • Oversee development of annual budget and periodic forecasting requirements for site. Identify business risks and mitigating opportunities during the quarter to enable the delivery of financial targets


Business Partnership & Leadership

  • Help develop a robust operations finance team
  • Lead critical initiatives across multiple functions to improve operations profitability and achieve our financial goals.
  • Provide strategic financial partnership and direction to the site to optimize margins through overhead cost management, capital optimization and productivity.
  • Owns the monthly financial review processes with reporting, analysis of variances and action planning.
  • Works with internal customers to understand their reporting needs and deliver clear financial reports and in process KPI's that allows teams to proactively deliver their team goals.
  • Develop the 3-year financial plan (MRP) for the site for operations to include product volumes material costs, and overhead
  • Develop in depth understanding of financial systems being used and how it affects financial reporting.
  • Lead execution of financial planning processes for the organization, including but not limited to: forecasts, budgeting, mid-range plan.
  • Drive the capital policy, evaluate new capital requirements and participate to the project prioritization.
  • Sustained performance through lean leadership, robust learning and development planning, organization talent reviews and communication planning.


  • Enterprise mindset to ensure the right prioritization for the site.
  • Excellent influencing/collaboration skills and teamwork mindset.
  • Ability to challenge the status quo with a continuous improvement mindset.
  • Proven ability in using a wide variety of lean tools and building capability within teams.
  • Effective communicator with a proven ability to grow talent and future leaders.
  • Identifying and communicating risks in area of responsibility and across the site.
  • Creating strategies and plans to manage risk within Finance.


  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting. A post-graduate qualification (MSc., PhD or MBA) is desired.
  • 6+ years of related experience
  • Strong working knowledge of financial and non-financial metrics and product costing.


Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.
For Location:
USA - CA - Los Angeles
U.S. Base Salary Range:
$96,600.00 - $151,800.00
The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
EEO Statement
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.
Locations
USA - CA - Los Angeles
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Job Exempt
Yes

Top Skills

Cost Accounting
Financial Analysis
Financial Reporting
Financial Systems
Lean Tools

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