Senior Strategic Finance Business Partner

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies

The work we do at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies changes lives, and our united passion for advancing tomorrow’s medicines will always be our driving force.

Whilst working as Senior Strategic Finanace Business Partner in the global team, you’ll be joining other motivated individuals who fuel one another’s passions and embrace every day as an opportunity.

About Us

We are a dynamic global company and our focus is to combine technical leadership in cell culture, microbial fermentation and gene therapies with world class cGMP manufacturing facilities to advance tomorrow’s medicines.

With sites in Billingham & Wilton UK, Hillerod Denmark, North Carolina and Texas USA, the size and breadth of our business will open up huge opportunities for you, whether you want to move to a different role in the UK, relocate, or progress and take on more responsibility.

Our teams are proud to partner with innovative companies reimagining what’s possible in biopharmaceuticals. Every day at Fujifilm Biotechnologies is a day for improvement, each challenge is an opportunity for growth, and every moment is a chance to evolve together.

Role & Responsibilities

• Be a Strategic Partner: Partner senior leaders and be the finance lead for the development and execution of our company’s future strategy. Work closely with Business Intelligence to understand the market outlook and how this translates into our modality and asset strategy.  This will require going beyond the finance boundary challenging and influencing assumptions and scenarios understanding the investment strategies and risk associated with them. Present and report the impact of these initiatives on the long term finance plan  (LTP). Enhance financial awareness and education within these global functions. (40%) 
• Support our asset strategy: Develop financial analysis linked to our asset strategy, modelling scenarios, making recommendations and influencing decisions for the path toward four times revenue growth to FY30. This will involve working closely with the FDB site leadership and finance teams. (20%)
• Be the finance lead on global projects: Serve as the finance lead for projects initiated by global functions, ensuring a robust business case throughout the approval and execution process. Ensure finance requirements are integrated during project scoping, and consult stakeholders to consider various financial elements effectively. (10%)
• Ensure adherence to governance: Work in close collaboration with the global functions providing guidance and support throughout the project governance and approval process, ensuring that business cases supporting the request are robust and underpinned by a comprehensive financial rationale. (10%)
• Tell the Story Behind the Numbers: Prepare and present reports, business cases, and performance analyses—turning complex data into clear, actionable insights for leadership. (10%)
• Champion Process Improvement: Lead initiatives to enhance our finance systems, processes and tools. Own the template for business case appraisal ensuring a consistent and repeatable approach to financial appraisal and scenario analysis. (10%)
• Support M&A activity: On an adhoc basis for potential future M&A activities get involved with all stages of the deal process from the initial negotiation, due diligence and integration from signing to closing
• All other duties assigned from time to time.

Qualifications And Experience

Minimum Background and Education Requirements 

• Master degree or professional Accounting ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CPA, or equivalent
• 8+ years’ experience in a global or International impacting role preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience of working with multi-site, multinational organizations on different time zones.
• Experience with mergers and acquisitions and finance integration is preferable.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities:

•  Currently a Senior Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner, or similar, with solid FP&A experience
•  An analytical thinker who thrives on using data to drive strategic decisions
•  Skilled in stakeholder management, with the confidence to collaborate with senior leaders across global functions
•  A proactive communicator who enjoys collaborating across teams and geographies
•  Ready to take on a global role with real impact
• You apprreciate the importance of strategy in driving a business forward.
• Understands of the importance of Strategy and its role in driving a business forward
• Natural self-starter with a systematic and dynamic approach to work
• Ability to exercise independent judgement using data to support this.
• Conceptual thinker and thought leadership.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex, advanced information clearly and concisely.
• High level of attention to detail with very good analytical and data management skills.
• Able to build and maintain effective and credible relationships with a broad range of diverse senior stakeholders with the ability to influence and persuade.  
• Understands of the importance of Strategy and its role in driving a business forward
• Natural self-starter with a systematic and dynamic approach to work
• Ability to exercise independent judgement using data to support this.
• Conceptual thinker and thought leadership.
• Strong analytical abilities for presenting complex data in a structured, result-oriented manner, with high attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex, advanced information clearly and concisely.
• High level of attention to detail with very good analytical and data management skills.
• Able to build and maintain effective and credible relationships with a broad range of diverse senior stakeholders with the ability to influence and persuade.  

This is a global position that will support all our FUJIFILM Biotechnologies sites. This position can be based at any of our locations around the globe. Benefits and compensation will be governed by the location that you are based from and considered your home site.

As part of any recruitment process, FUJIFILM Biotechnologies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The organization is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations and may share this as part of the global recruitment process with hiring managers in Europe and the United States.

Why Work With Us?

At Fujifilm Biotechnologies, your passion is your power and we empower you to define what that means to you.

When you join us, we will train, develop and support you to become the best you can possibly be. We offer a structured new starter induction programme as well as on-going development training. In addition to this, we offer:

• Competitive salary plus company bonus scheme
• 35 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Salary Sacrifice scheme offering, healthcare, bikes, dental etc.
• Generous pension scheme
• Free parking and electric charging points 

Closing date 30th September 2025