Finance Lead Turkiye at Takeda Pharmaceutical in Istanbul

Job description

By clicking the “Apply” button, I understand that my employment application process with Takeda will commence and that the information I provide in my application will be processed in line with Takeda’s Privacy Notice and Terms of Use . I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge. Job Description ACCOUNTABILITIES · Lead the local end-to-end finance agenda for the market, in collaboration with the Cluster Finance team & GCC, including planning, performance support, local finance coordination, and statutory interface activities. · Act as the primary local finance contact for the country team, local leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders. · Build and own local plans, forecasts, and financial commentary that reflect business ambition, execution realities, and market-specific assumptions. · Ensure that forecasts are realistic, transparent, and grounded in market dynamics, business execution, productivity expectations, and commercial assumptions. · Act as a senior financial partner to local country stakeholders and challenge the business constructively on ambition, phasing, productivity, risks, and execution realism. · Coordinate with GCC/shared services and cluster controllership to ensure local reporting, close, reconciliations, and controls are completed accurately and on time. · Review and validate local close outputs, balance sheet positions, assumptions, and commentary before submission into cluster or IBU governance processes. · Ensure that local business conditions, regulatory requirements, tax/statutory expectations, and stakeholder considerations are appropriately reflected in finance outputs. · Support local compliance, audit readiness, statutory reporting, and authority-facing requirements in partnership with the relevant cluster or regional controller. · Serve as the local finance authority on market-specific finance issues, escalating complex risks, control concerns, and business exceptions appropriately and in a timely manner. · Help ensure that centralized finance support colleagues have the information, decisions, and local context they need to execute effectively. · Drive simplification, clarity, and strong operating discipline while preserving local accountability and judgment. · Contribute to improvement of local-to-cluster ways of working, including use of digital, analytics, and AI-enabled finance tools. . Lead local transfer pricing execution and governance, ensuring compliance with global policies and local regulatory requirements. . Monitor intercompany transactions and support transfer pricing documentation, reviews and audits. . Drive cash-flow planning and liquidity management through proactive forecasting and working-capital optimization. . Identify cash-flow risks and opportunities and recommend appropriate actions to protect financial performance and liquidity. EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS: Education and Experience · Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline. · Professional finance or accounting qualification preferred. · 15+ years of finance experience across planning, reporting, control, business partnering, or local market finance support. · Experience supporting legal entities, country leadership teams, or market-level stakeholders preferred. · Strong working knowledge of local statutory, regulatory, or local GAAP requirements preferred. · Advanced experience with enterprise planning tools, Power BI or equivalent reporting and analytics platforms preferred, plus strong curiosity & willingness to upskill within AI field · Pharmaceutical, healthcare, or similarly regulated industry experience preferred. Skills and Capabilities · Broad finance leadership · Planning and forecasting · Financial reporting and close review · Controls coordination and statutory awareness · Local stakeholder partnership · Independent judgment and prioritization · Strong communication · High ownership