Finance and Business Services Lead

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Job Purpose & Summary

As the Finance Lead and a key member of the Bulgaria Enabling Team (Leadership Team), you provide strategic financial leadership, analytical expertise, and business judgment to drive a sustainable, compliant, and high-performing affiliate. Leveraging deep business acumen, you provide the critical insights needed to guide complex decision-making, optimize resource allocations, and support strategic initiatives across both the local organization and the wider Roche network.

Sharing accountability with the General Manager for operational profitability and navigating industry trends, your core focus is to inspire and influence. You will lead the local Finance and business services team, build collaborative bridges across borders, and rally support to advance the affiliate's vision without relying on formal authority alone. Acting as a risk manager, change agent, and the "economic conscience" of the affiliate, you will actively steer the organization through its agile transformation and strategic journey.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Finance & Business Insights

• Forward-Looking Analysis: Proactively identify key challenges and opportunities, thoroughly assessing their long-term financial and non-financial impact on the affiliate.
• Market Insight Generation: Anticipate industry trends, macro-environmental shifts, and potential business risks or opportunities to generate meaningful market insights that secure the long-term sustainability of the affiliate.
• Agile Ecosystem: Stimulate an environment that actively supports smart experiments, rapid iterations, and ruthless prioritization, ensuring the local organization maintains its capability to scale efficiently.
• Actionable Intelligence: Lead the Finance function to deliver highly relevant, actionable information to stakeholders for robust data-driven decision-making and continuous performance monitoring.
• Strategic Change Agent: Act as a change agent for strategic and transformational projects and initiatives having a direct or indirect financial impact across geographical boundaries.

Organizational Efficiency & Business Partnering

• Target & Budget Formulation: Formulate clear financial targets, operating budgets, deadlines, and content requirements, guiding the business to successfully meet both short- and long-term goals by delivering comprehensive financial information.
• Value-Enhancing Collaboration: Engage deeply with business partners, particularly the Enabling Team, to co-create and execute value-enhancing choices, driving overall business performance while ensuring all local strategic ambitions and structural commitments to the region are flawlessly met.
• Cross-Border Networking: Effectively network and collaborate across boundaries to forge strong, strategic relationships beyond the Finance function, leveraging the broader network to deliver superior outcomes and break down organizational barriers.
• Process Modernization: Drive continuous process standardization, automation, and tight operational integration with all relevant parties, including the Regional Shared Services (RSS) network.
• Commercial & Cost Monitoring: Oversee cost management, credit management, accounts receivable, asset management, and specific commercial deal structures to secure organizational effectiveness.

Financial Governance & Controls

• Reporting Quality: Safeguard the absolute quality, transparency, and accuracy of financial transaction recording and reporting, meeting both statutory criteria and stringent Group reporting requirements (e.g., FGAR, RPM).
• Transaction Control: Ensure rigorous control over all financial transactions, accountancy matters, treasury, and asset positioning, including the maintenance and execution of advanced audit systems.
• Internal Controls Framework: Formulate, implement, and continuously monitor robust internal financial controls (including ICFR and segregation of duties) to maintain corporate compliance and reporting integrity.
• Annual Accounts Accountability: Assume ultimate accountability for the seamless preparation, integrity, and final audit of the affiliate's annual financial accounts.

People Leadership, Mindsets & Competencies 

• VACC & Agile Leadership: Leverage VACC (Visionary, Architect, Coach, Catalyst) principles to enable a diverse team to contribute to enterprise outcomes. Actively shape, implement, and role-model modern, flexible ways of working to steer the team through the affiliate’s agile transformation journey.
• Talent Management & Growth: Hire, coach, and develop internal employees and external partners by establishing clear accountabilities, delegating effectively, and fostering local decision-making. Maintain clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and ensure structured reviews and individual development plans are actively implemented.
• Culture, Collaboration & Communication: Promote cross-functional teamwork, psychological safety, and transparent communication at all levels, encouraging diverse perspectives and a shared sense of purpose.
• Strategic Agility & Change Management: Demonstrate an exceptional capacity to maintain focus on long-term goals while smoothly pivoting to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and changing market environments.
• Influencing Without Authority: Exhibit a proven capability to network effectively, resolve conflicts constructively, and build strong cross-border alliances to enlist colleagues across the wider network to advance organizational targets.
• Entrepreneurial & Systems Thinking: Maintain a holistic, end-to-end view of the value chain coupled with an inquisitive mind that regularly challenges the status quo to build transformative, patient-centric solutions.

Key Job Requirements & Qualifications

Education & Professional Certifications

• Minimum: University degree (BSc/MSc) in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline. Postgraduate qualification is desirable.
• Certification: Qualified member of an internationally recognized accountancy or financial body (e.g., Chartered Accountant, CPA, CA, ACA, CIMA, CFA, or equivalent qualification).

• Leadership Background: A minimum of 7 to 10 years of proven financial experience, with a solid track record in a managerial or leadership position overseeing finance teams.
• Strategic Agility: Outstanding business acumen and strategic agility, with a proven track record of managing financial governance in a complex matrix environment.
• Influencing Skills: Solid entrepreneurial, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with an ability to deliver results, manage change, and resolve conflicts across matrix boundaries.
• Global Mindset: Experience working within multicultural networks or international matrix organizations. (Previous experience within an international healthcare, pharmaceutical, or In-Vitro diagnostics setting is highly desirable).
• Technical & Languages: Fluent in written and spoken English. Highly IT literate with hands-on experience navigating complex enterprise systems (such as SAP) and reporting interfaces.

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.