Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance

Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents.

While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

At Lonza, we are looking for a Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance to provide enterprise-wide leadership across Global Business Services, Corporate Accounting & External Reporting, Group Tax, Group Treasury, and Process Excellence. Reporting directly to the Group CFO, this highly influential leadership role will bring these critical capabilities under unified leadership, strengthening strategic alignment, financial governance, and responsiveness to the evolving needs of the business.

Leading a global organization of approximately 360 employees, including a senior leadership team of Vice Presidents, you will shape and execute major finance transformation initiatives, strengthen financial compliance and standardization, and support strategic M&A and business priorities. You will combine deep corporate finance expertise with enterprise leadership to drive operational excellence, enable scalable ways of working, and help shape Lonza's long-term financial strategy and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership across Global Business Services, Corporate Accounting & External Reporting, Group Tax, Group Treasury, and Process Excellence, ensuring strong alignment and performance across the Corporate Finance organization
• Lead and develop a senior leadership team of experienced Vice Presidents and their organizations, fostering collaboration, accountability, functional excellence, and enterprise-wide impact
• Drive the transformation and evolution of Lonza's global service delivery model, including further offshoring and nearshoring opportunities across Finance and other functions
• Strengthen financial governance, compliance, controls, and standardization, including the continued development of Global Process Ownership across functions
• Oversee Group accounting and external reporting, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting and effective engagement with auditors and regulatory stakeholders
• Provide strategic leadership across Group Tax and Treasury, including tax efficiency, transfer pricing, Pillar 2 requirements, liquidity, funding, debt management, foreign exchange, and broader financial risk management
• Support acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions, shaping carve-out, purchase price allocation, financing, and tax structures to optimize transaction outcomes
• Drive the development of integrated end-to-end commercial offerings, partnering across Finance and Key Account Management on pricing, revenue recognition, invoicing, and trade compliance for cross-platform opportunities
• Play a key leadership role in major enterprise transformation initiatives, including SAP S/4
  
  HANA implementation and other cross-functional Finance programmes requiring significant organizational alignment
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Group CFO and senior leadership, providing strategic insight and clear recommendations while representing Corporate Finance with the Executive Committee, Audit and Compliance Committee, and key external stakeholders

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years of senior Finance leadership experience, with significant responsibility across corporate finance, accounting, treasury, tax, global business services, or related enterprise finance functions
• 5–10 years of relevant strategy and M&A…