Associate Director-Finance Manufacturing

About the role

The Finance Business Partner Lead supports the Thousand Oaks Manufacturing site as the main business partner for the facility. This role is a high-level individual contributor and reports directly to the Site Finance Head.

Responsibilities

• Help drive and lead the finance organization for the site, including decision support, budgeting, forecasting, and financial variance analysis.
• Develop financial business cases and analyses for capital investments to justify the initiative by proving its value.
• Work collaboratively with the site leadership team to provide financial insights on manufacturing performance, local risks and opportunities, predictive scenario planning, new products, and transformation initiatives.
• Partner with key stakeholders to ensure budget accountability and proactively address financial risks and help determine how to offset cost overruns.
• Maintain financial master data and ensures data integrity for financial tools.
• Help perform annual standard cost calculations and monthly deviation analysis.
• Continuously enhance the controls environment and ensure adherence to all policies. Oversee local SOX & controls planning, implementation, remediation, and risk assessment. Engage in collaborative relationships with internal and external partners.
• Ensure the fiduciary and statutory responsibilities and obligations, by overseeing statutory reporting and compliance requirements, providing oversight of period end reporting, stats and tax returns submissions where required.

Requirements

• Relationship management – establish productive relationships with own group and cross-functional teams. Ability to effectively articulate ideas and problem-solve across a variety of settings.
• Enterprise mindset – ability to join the dots, think broadly and serve the best interest of the enterprise through own role and department.
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance and 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong financial analysis skills, and experience supporting cross-functional decision making.
• Excellent communication skills and strong executive presence.
• Problem solver with the ability to think strategically and be solution-oriented to support key business decisions.
• Collaborator who can optimally navigate across a global, matrixed organization.
• Strong analytical skill with ability to synthesize large amounts of data and financial modeling.
• Experience in Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry, including cost accounting experience with exposure to manufacturing and/or supply chain.
• Deep understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools, their business functions, and the interactions between those functions.
• Experience with the following applications: SAP, JD Edwards, SAP Analytics Clouds, Blackline, Concur, Ariba, Qlik Cloud, ReportsNow, Invoicetrack and all Microsoft Office suite programs.

Benefits

Takeda offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. For Location: USA - CA - Thousand Oaks - Rancho Conejo, the U.S. Base Salary Range is $154,400.00 - $242,550.00. Employees may be eligible for short-term and/or long-term incentives, 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. 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.

Pay

For Location: USA - CA - Thousand Oaks - Rancho Conejo, the U.S. Base Salary Range is $154,400.00 - $242,550.00.

Schedule

Full-time position starting on June 22, 2026.