Job Description
Summary
About the role:
Lead all BPA activities within a country ,unit, or function, a region or globally (depending on the division size), providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership.
Lead all BPA activities within a country ,unit, or function, a region or globally (depending on the division size), providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership.
About the Role
Key Requirements:
- Manage the execution of regional / global strategies for own part of the organization and the correct and timely implementation of BPA processes and policies and ensure adherence thereof.
- Deliver core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information.
- Lead the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for use in Global and Regional, country, Business Franchise (BF), and Business Unit (BU) planning.
- Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results.
- Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data: Sales trends, Functional Expenses, Other Income and Expenses, Impairment review, Management Cash Flow, Capital Investments, life time costs for projects, NPV etc
- Support the organization’s leadership team with financial analysis (including Risks and Opportunities analysis), cost analysis and control and drive corrective actions.
- Conduct value added analyses, e.g. Resource Allocation, Profitability analyses, Benchmarking to recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas.
- Manage and ensure the development of a team of experienced BPA professionals.
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt
- Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
Essential Requirements:
- CA / MBA Finance, 5-8 years.
- Advanced Excel skills, Inhouse tools (if Internal),
- Problem Solving Skills, Self-motivated, ability to drive things Independently
Desirable Requirements:
- FP&A Exposure
- Multi-tasking, and MNC exposure
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