Clinical FP&A, Manager

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Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Clinical FP&A, Manager in our Cambridge, MA office.

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

The role will report to the Head Finance, Global Development Organization.

• Independently leads financial planning, analysis, and reporting for clinical trial costs.
• Actively contributes to functional and project team leadership, offering strategic insight and consultation to support informed decision‑making.
• Drives continuous process improvement across systems and deliverables to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

• Lead analytical aspects of divisional financial processes. Analyze data and provide insights regarding business trends, financial performance, and potential areas for improvement.
• Act as a trusted finance business partner to study team, and build an environment to both challenge and support them with sound financial guidance and strategic insights; suggest corrective actions.
• Interact heavily with business partners to help them with their budget, forecast and analyze spend variances in their departments and identify associated risks, opportunities, and action plans.
• Track individual department & clinical trial spend, prepare and distribute timely financial reports with value‑added variance explanations. Conduct one‑on‑one review meetings with business partners.
• Design, prepare, and distribute financial reporting packages to support clinical trial budget management; conduct one‑on‑one review meetings with business partners.
• Deliver useful business insights through sophisticated analytics and data visualization capabilities.
• Perform financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Develop and maintain performance tracking and analysis for external collaborations.
• Perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as requested.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 6 years of overall business experience, and/or
• Strong variance analysis, cost management and valuation experience.
• Pharmaceutical‑Biotech industry experience or acumen in core therapeutic areas.
• Clinical Trial Financial Planning & Analysis experience is a must for this role.
• Experience consulting with senior level stakeholders/clients.
• Advance data visualization and presentation experience.

• Analytical – Ability to analyze monthly financial results and ROI outputs and to understand how to use this information to drive projects that will impact the business.
• Teamwork – Ability to work effectively in and foster a team environment.
• Communication – Excellent oral, written, and presentation communications skills needed.
• Management – Ability to set priorities and meet specific deadlines in a changing environment, ability to be flexible, accommodating, and to deal with change effectively.
• Relationship Skill – Ability to gain trust of high-level management and leverage relationships.
• Entrepreneurial – Ability and desire to take ownership of activities and projects, desire to shape the organization, consistent “out of the box”…