Area Finance Head - Middle East

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The Position

In the role of Area Finance Manager for the Middle East , you will be part of the Area Leadership team and will act as a strategic advisor to the Area Head and the Regional Leadership Team. Reporting to the Head of Finance Pharma International, this senior leadership role requires a deep financial background and the ability to translate business decisions into enterprise-wide financial impact while upholding the highest compliance standards. Your expertise will be crucial in guiding optimal resource allocation, identifying new business opportunities, and translating operational decisions into clear, enterprise-wide financial impact. You will act as a thought sparring partner as well as a business partner to the Area Head of Middle East. 

As a situational leader with a passion for developing high-performing teams, you will shape our financial future by leading, coaching, and developing the entire Middle East  finance organization, fostering a culture of inclusion, collaboration and empowered decision-making. Your leadership will extend to Affiliate Finance Managers, whom you will mentor and enable to drive impact, both locally and within the wider finance community, ensuring that your team's work directly supports our mission to bring our medicines to patients. You will drive success within your region while also playing a key role in the Pharma International Finance Network (FINET) and the broader finance community.

The Opportunity

• Strategic Enterprise Partnership: As a senior advisor and sparring partner to the Area Head Middle East, you will provide strategic business partnering to shape and deliver Pharma International’s long-term strategy, while influencing discussions beyond finance to identify cross-border resource allocation opportunities that maximize Roche's value.
• Business Strategy Delivery: Shape and deliver long-term business plans by applying deep market and commercial insights regarding pharmaceutical shifts and competitor actions, while connecting regional goals with the global strategic directions. Sensing and advising on organizational effectiveness and efficiency. 
• Regional Financial Oversight: Provide guidance and steer decisions to ensure P&L sustainability, financial integrity, and robust risk management across multiple affiliates. Effectively deploying resources to where they create  the maximum value to patients  and the business 
• Entrepreneurial Thinking : Applying an entrepreneurial mindset to steer business priorities with clear financial guidance to maximize value, while also establishing and overseeing all financial governance and risk management processes.
• Leadership & Coaching: Serve as a coach to affiliate Finance Managers (dotted line), clearing obstacles and modeling VACC (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, Coach) leadership to drive an empowered culture.
• Agile & Digital Leadership : Champion the adoption of AI and financial technology to enhance predictive insights, simplify cross-border reporting, and increase transparency.
• Governance & Operational Excellence: Ensure high-quality compliance and robust governance of all Finance practices, maintaining a comprehensive view of the end-to-end value chain.
• Network & Diversity Advocacy: Foster an inclusive environment of belonging and influence the broader finance community to share best practices among diverse, virtual teams. Understands the cultural nuances within and across markets and is able to navigate successfully to deliver on  business outcomes. Acting as a connector to the broader finance network, pulling in the right support as needed. 
• Navigating System Complexity : lead effectively in volatile, uncertain, networked and ambiguous environments through making sound decisions, managing risk, and maintaining clarity of vision through complex challenges.
• Driving transformation: Drive change and transformational leadership across the region by embedding agile ways of working, creative leadership mindsets, and applying a rigorous focus on the highest impact and value work through collaboration

Who You Are

• Proven Finance Leader: You have a strong track record as an experienced Finance  Leader with a demonstrated ability to architect and implement financial strategies that align with and accelerate enterprise-wide business goals
• You hold a Bachelor’s degree (MBA or professional qualifications like CPA/CIMA preferred)
• Leadership & Coaching: Demonstrated interest and experience in coaching and developing other leaders, in line with our leadership commitments. 
• Global Mindset: You have lived and worked in more than one country, bringing a deep understanding of diverse cultural dynamics and international market shifts.
• Strategic Influencer: You are skilled in stakeholder management and "influencing without authority," capable of articulating complex concepts to senior leadership to drive regional alignment and bringing a balance of challenge-support skills. 
• Agile & Curious Learner: You possess the learning agility to explore other functions, the courage to challenge the status quo, and an entrepreneurial spirit to navigate complex organizations.
• Tech-Forward Communicator: You are an effective communicator able to adapt communication style and messaging based on audience. Champion digital trends, using a future-forward mindset to drive innovation and predictive decision-making.
• There would be 20% - 30% travel to the region 

Ready for the next step? We look forward to hearing from you. Apply now to discover this exciting opportunity!

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.