**DXTO Finance Lead** Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas! Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com . This position is based in Northbrook, Illinois. Remote work from certain states may be permitted in accordance with Astellas’ Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. Candidates interested in remote work are encouraged to apply. **Purpose and Scope:** Provide strategic financial leadership and decision support to the DigitalX and Transformation Office (DXTO), ensuring financial clarity and accountability across transformation initiatives. It leads business case development, financial planning, and risk analysis to optimize investment decisions and drive performance. As a key enabler of DXTO’s strategy, the position also fosters innovation in financial processes and builds a high-performing team to sustain long-term value creation. **Essential Job Responsibilities:** + Partner with DigitalX and Transformation Office (DXTO) leaders to deliver strategic financial guidance that informs decision-making and aligns with organizational priorities. + Coordinate the financial planning cycle in partnership with Corporate Finance, ensuring alignment with global standards, timelines, and templates. + Drive forecasting and budgeting processes, challenging assumptions to ensure realistic projections and surfacing risks and opportunities that enable strategic investment reallocation. + Champion continuous improvement by questioning existing processes and introducing innovative solutions including AI to strengthen financial management across DXTO. + Act as a key enabler of DXTO’s strategic initiatives by ensuring financial clarity and timely delivery of transformation outcomes. + Lead the financial dimension of business case development, ensuring all key financial, competitive, and strategic factors are considered to enhance business performance. + Conduct risk and opportunity analyses, challenge underlying assumptions, and identify actionable strategies to close performance gaps. + Build cohesive, high-performing team while managing performance, organization design, and career development, while identifying and nurturing top talent to support Astellas’ long-term capability and succession planning **Qualifications** **Required:** + Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or relevant professional qualification (e.g., CPA, ACCA, CIMA) preferred. + 15 years of finance experience, including senior-level business partnering and team leadership. + Strong people management skills with a track record of developing high-performing teams. + Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and partner across enterprise-wide functions. + Expertise in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. + Proficiency in management reporting tools; advanced Excel skills. + Excellent communication, business acumen, and decision-making capabilities. + Comfortable driving change and working in fast-paced, complex environments. **Working Environment:** At Astellas we recognize the importance of work/life balance, and we are proud to offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home. We believe this will optimize the most productive work environment for all employees to succeed and deliver. Hybrid work from certain locations may be permitted in accordance with Astellas’ Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. **Salary Range:** $170,450 -$243,000 (NOTE: Final salary could be more or less, based on experience) **Benefits:** + Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance + Generous Paid Time Off options, including Vacation, Sick time, plus national holidays including Heritage Days, and Summer and Winter Breaks + 401(k) match and annual company contribution + Company paid life insurance + Annual Corporate Bonus and Quarterly Sales Incentive for eligible positions + Long Term Incentive Plan for eligible positions + Referral bonus program **\#LI-CH1** Category CDTO Office Astellas is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans