The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Site Finance Business Partner, as the Manager, Finance Business Partnering, you will partner with assigned senior Site Leaders in the Bradley manufacturing site (conveniently located within 1/2 mile of the #315 Bradley exit) by providing accurate, timely, and meaningful financial analysis, insights, and direction necessary to support and drive business decisions and meet the financial performance, analysis, and reporting requirements of the CSL Behring Finance team. You will execute this purpose with a willingness and openness to business partners’ needs, focusing on continuously improving the internal business processes and quality of insights, and supporting sustainable profitable growth strategy through insightful analyses. You will focus on supporting assigned Value Stream activities including production planning, labor modelling, conversion costs, process orders, and provisions. The incumbent will acquire the knowledge of assigned operational areas at the site and possess the ability to provide technical guidance in financial systems, applications, and acumen.

The expected base salary range for this position at hiring is $106,000 - $125,000. Please note this salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay that CSL expects to pay for this position at the listed location as of the time of this posting. Individual base salary for a successful candidate is determined by qualifications, skill level, experience, competencies, and other relevant factors. In addition to base salary, total compensation for this role may also include incentive compensation and equity.

This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule. #LI-hybrid

The Role:

• Lead Finance Business Partnering in Bradley to support assigned Value Streams. Contribute to the development of reporting, dashboards, and analytics to ultimately drive improved decisions by understanding the financial impact of decisions. Execute KPI framework to drive accountability and financial acumen among the business partners.
• Prepare insightful commentary for variances to forecast and budget to support the site’s E2E leadership team. Commentary will focus on key performance drivers and actions required to mitigate risks and prevent unfavorable variance from recurring.
• For the assigned Value Streams, lead the annual budget and quarterly forecast including providing insightful commentary to business partners. Lead cost center planning process for assigned cost centers and financial evaluation of targeted process improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate on cost accounting activities including calculation of standard costs, manufacturing variance analysis, and provision analysis for assigned Value Streams.
• Support the improvement of existing financial systems, dashboards, processes, and procedures, and liaise with other CSL Behring sites to achieve global standardization as requested.
• Review financial submissions, as requested, for business cases or high value Procurement contracts.
• Provide Finance evaluation of business improvement and growth projects including costing data for capital investment projects. Leverage FP&A resources to support development of business cases and other complex analyses and modelling.
• Collaborate with business partners and Finance leaders to design and presents information in ways to improve timeliness and decision-making capability of the users of the information.
• Support external audit process by providing documentation or analyses as requested.

Your Skills & Abilities:

• Required Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting or related degree; MBA preferable.
• CPA or CMA differentiating factor.
• Equivalent years of work experience may apply.
• Minimum 7+ years relevant experience in financial and accounting roles including measuring and analyzing performance to budget and forecast.
• Minimum 5 years providing business partner support to at least a mid-size manufacturing site or over multiple small sites. Preference given for product costing experience.
• Able to demonstrate excellent business partnering skills including effectively challenging, advising, and supporting decision making through effective collaboration.
• Experience functioning within a global organization.
• Proven experience providing site leadership with financial analysis including insightful commentary and communicating in the business partner language.
• Demonstrated track record of effectively functioning in a team. Must maintain discretion, confidentiality, and maintain composure and professionalism during collaboration.
• Experience engaging diverse stakeholders at varying levels within the organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

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You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.