Sr Manager Finance - R&D and IT

Senior Manager Finance - R&D and IT

The Senior Manager, Finance - R&D and IT serves as a strategic finance leader and trusted advisor to Terumo BCT's global R&D and Information Technology organizations. This role is responsible for financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and investment analysis across R&D portfolios, IT programs, and enabling capabilities that support long-term growth, innovation, and operational excellence. Success in this role requires a high degree of cross-functional partnership with R&D leadership, IT leadership, and Corporate Finance, along with the ability to translate complex technical and innovation-driven investments into clear financial insights for executive decision-making. The role operates at both a strategic and operational level, ensuring alignment between enterprise priorities, governance requirements, and long-range value creation.

Essential Duties:

• Serve as a key finance partner to global R&D and IT leadership, supporting strategic planning, investment prioritization, and performance management.
• Actively participate on R&D and IT senior leadership teams, providing financial insight, constructive challenge, and recommendations to support enterprise objectives.
• Translate scientific, technical, and digital initiatives into clear financial narratives for senior leadership and executive audiences.
• Lead financial planning and forecasting activities for global R&D and IT, including annual operating plans, long-range plans, and monthly forecasts.
• Develop and maintain financial KPIs, dashboards, and performance reporting, highlighting trends, drivers, risks, and opportunities relative to plan and strategy.
• Provide insightful monthly and quarterly performance analysis, including forward-looking commentary and scenario considerations.
• Lead and review business cases for R&D programs, sustaining and innovation portfolios, digital initiatives, and IT investments.
• Partner with Commercial Finance to ensure business cases are financially rigorous, aligned with governance standards, and include appropriate risk assessment, sensitivity analysis, and value realization metrics.
• Perform look-back analyses on completed initiatives to improve forecast accuracy and inform future investment decisions.
• Support enterprise governance processes related to R&D and IT investments, including prioritization, funding decisions, and resource allocation.
• Partner with Corporate Finance and other FP&A teams to ensure consistency of assumptions, methodologies, and reporting across the enterprise.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, internal controls, and approval requirements.
• Partner with Financial Systems and Business Intelligence teams to enhance FP&A tools, reporting, and data integrity (e.g., SAP, Adaptive Planning, Power BI).
• Drive continuous improvement in planning processes, reporting efficiency, and analytical capabilities, applying Lean and best-practice FP&A principles.
• Support alignment across financial systems used for R&D, IT, and enterprise reporting.
• Manage and mentor a Senior Financial Analyst, driving accountability for high-impact analytics, forecast accuracy, and executive-level financial deliverables.
• Lead cross-functional projects and initiatives requiring advanced financial expertise and stakeholder management.
• Model Terumo BCT leadership behaviors, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered. An advanced degree such as an MBA preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or related roles within a medium to large, global organization. Demonstrated experience supporting R&D, IT, engineering, or innovation-driven functions strongly preferred. Proven capability in financial modeling, business case development, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning. Experience working in a global, matrixed environment with international operations. Prior people management or project leadership experience preferred.
• Leadership Experience: Leading teams or influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Skills: Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics. Deep understanding of financial planning, investment evaluation, and performance management. Solid knowledge of U.S. GAAP and/or IFRS, internal controls, and governance practices. Advanced financial systems and data analytics skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations. High degree of professional judgment, integrity, and confidence in representing finance perspectives. Ability to balance business partnership with enterprise governance requirements. Continuous improvement mindset; experience applying Lean or process optimization principles.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Certification, such as a CMA, CPA or other professional financial certifications preferred. -Or- An equivalent competency level acquired through a variation of these qualifications may be considered.

Physical Requirements:

Typical Office Environment requirements include: reading, speaking, hearing, close vision, walking, bending, sitting, and occasional lifting up to 20 pounds. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Target Pay Range: $145,000.00 to $181,300.00 - Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Target Bonus on Base: 20.0%.

We anticipate this requisition will be open for a minimum of five days. We encourage your prompt application.

At Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, we provide competitive total reward offerings that consist of compensation, benefits, recognition, along with a wealth of other well-being, work-life and recognition programs which support in unlocking the potential for you and your family. Included in our expansive list of benefits offerings are multiple group medical, dental and vision plans, a robust wellness program, life insurance and disability coverages, also a variety of voluntary programs such as group accident, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance and much more. To help you save for retirement, we offer a 401(k) plan with a matching contribution and for work-life balance we have vacation and sick time programs for associates. For us, it's about protecting the personal welfare of our associates and their families, helping to achieve personal goals and offering those extra touches for convenience, security and overall peace of mind.

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies is part of Terumo Group, founded in 1921 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. In 2024, Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies reached $1.5 billion in revenue. We employ nearly 8,000 associates globally, with global headquarters in Lakewood, CO, U.S., and regional headquarters in Brussels, Buenos Aires, Singapore and Tokyo. We manufacture devices, disposable sets and solutions at our facilities in Belgium, India, Japan, Northern Ireland, the U.S. and Vietnam. Our global presence enables us to serve customers in more than 130 countries. Our core values help set our direction, guide our actions and keep us true to our corporate mission of contributing to society through healthcare. Respect – Appreciative of others Integrity – Guided by our mission Care – Empathetic to patients Quality – Committed to excellence Creativity – Striving for innovation

We contribute to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), raising $2.4 million USD since 2025. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. All applicants will be afforded equal opportunity without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, military status or an unfavorable discharge from military service. Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies is committed to providing a safe, healthy and secure working environment. Our Colorado campus locations are tobacco-free workplaces, and we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing and detailed background verification.