Finance Lead Turkiye Istanbul, Istanbul Category: Finance

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Job Description ACCOUNTABILITIES · Lead the local end-to-end finance agenda for the market, in collaboration with the Cluster Finance team & GCC, including planning, performance support, local finance coordination, and statutory interface activities. · Act as the primary local finance contact for the country team, local leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders. · Build and own local plans, forecasts, and financial commentary that reflect business ambition, execution realities, and market-specific assumptions. · Ensure that forecasts are realistic, transparent, and grounded in market dynamics, business execution, productivity expectations, and commercial assumptions. · Act as a senior financial partner to local country stakeholders and challenge the business constructively on ambition, phasing, productivity, risks, and execution realism. · Coordinate with GCC/shared services and cluster controllership to ensure local reporting, close, reconciliations, and controls are completed accurately and on time. · Review and validate local close outputs, balance sheet positions, assumptions, and commentary before submission into cluster or IBU governance processes. · Ensure that local business conditions, regulatory requirements, tax/statutory expectations, and stakeholder considerations are appropriately reflected in finance outputs. · Support local compliance, audit readiness, statutory reporting, and authority-facing requirements in partnership with the relevant cluster or regional controller. · Serve as the local finance authority on market-specific finance issues, escalating complex risks, control concerns, and business exceptions appropriately and in a timely manner. · Help ensure that centralized finance support colleagues have the information, decisions, and local context they need to execute effectively. · Drive simplification, clarity, and strong operating discipline while preserving local accountability and judgment. · Contribute to improvement of local-to-cluster ways of working, including use of digital, analytics, and AI-enabled finance tools. . Lead local transfer pricing execution and governance, ensuring compliance with global policies and local regulatory requirements. . Monitor intercompany transactions and support transfer pricing documentation, reviews and audits. . Drive cash-flow planning and liquidity management through proactive forecasting and working-capital optimization. . Identify cash-flow risks and opportunities and recommend appropriate actions to protect financial performance and liquidity. EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS: Education and Experience · Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline. · Professional finance or accounting qualification preferred. · 15+ years of finance experience across planning, reporting, control, business partnering, or local market finance support. · Experience supporting legal entities, country leadership teams, or market-level stakeholders preferred. · Strong working knowledge of local statutory, regulatory, or local GAAP requirements preferred. · Advanced experience with enterprise planning tools, Power BI or equivalent reporting and analytics platforms preferred, plus strong curiosity & willingness to upskill within AI field · Pharmaceutical, healthcare, or similarly regulated industry experience preferred. Skills and Capabilities · Broad finance leadership · Planning and forecasting · Financial reporting and close review · Controls coordination and statutory awareness · Local stakeholder partnership · Independent judgment and prioritization · Strong communication · High ownership and accountability Locations Istanbul, Turkey Worker Type Employee Worker Sub-Type Regular Time Type Full time Apply Now Share this job Facebook Xing LinkedIn Email Related content Learn more Frequently Asked Questions Learn more Healthcare for all Learn more How We Partner Learn more Innovators in Science Award Winners Learn more Luck is not a strategy Learn more Takeda Unveils Newly Renovated Cambridge Building Learn more Our Commitment to the Planet Learn more Our Products Learn more Our R&D Pipeline Learn more Patient Story: Rosie Learn more Putting Patients First Learn more Sustainable Value Report 2023 Learn more Takeda Global Headquarters Learn more Informiere dich über Stellenangebote Takedas Produktionsstandort Learn more Takeda in the US Learn more Takeda’s Global CSR Program Learn more The History of Takeda Learn more Values and Corporate Governance Learn more Takeda Manufacturing - 2021 Facilities of the Year Learn more Takeda Acquires Adaptate Therapeutics Learn more BioLife Plasma Services Learn more Biotech Site in Covington, GA Learn more <li class="js-hub-item hub-content__item showing-by-filter showing-by-load" data-hub-read-time="" data-hub-origin="False" data-hub-title="Takeda’s Position on Climate Change" data-hub-meta-title="" data-hub-meta="" data-hub-url="jobs.takeda.com/" data-hub-isfallbackpage="False" data-hub-order="0" data-hub-link="https://www.takeda.com/4ab3a2/siteassets/system/who-we-are/companyinformation/positions--guidelines/takeda_position_climate_change_2020.pdf" data-hub-image="https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/1113/v3_0/img/content/rc_climate_change.png" data-hub-created-by="TMP created" data-hub-date-updated="02/26/2025 19:36:54" data-hub-da