Sébastien Barbay

Sébastien Barbay, ACCA, currently serves as Clinical Finance Lead for R&D BioPharmaceuticals at AstraZeneca since April 2018, overseeing a team of 8 Clinical Finance Business Partners and managing an annual budget exceeding $1 billion. Previous roles at AstraZeneca include Clinical Finance Manager, where responsibilities expanded to Early Oncology, and Senior Clinical Finance Business Partner, which involved audit processes and large-scale process redesign projects. Prior to AstraZeneca, Sébastien Barbay worked as a Consultant in Forensic/Internal Audit Advisory at KPMG and held various positions in customer support and banking. Educational qualifications include a Master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from SGH Warsaw School of Economics, a Bachelor's degree in Business/Managerial Economics, and an Erasmus Exchange program at HTWK Leipzig.