Job Description Summary
-To support the business within a country with complex analysis, reporting, forecasts etc. (typically very large to large revenue) and may coordinate a team of specialists. To act as a Business Partner for BPA within a country, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the management team.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the operational conversion of the BPA strategic goals within a dedicated area of the business
- Provide management with accurate, relevant business analysis to support monthly operational reviews and ad-hoc requests, and ensure timely and accurate information gathering.
- Perform analysis to evaluate risks or opportunities; make recommendations to mitigate these risks.
- Manage and provide financial analysis and decision making support for a investment/project in a domain
- Ensure ongoing business performance is appropriately monitored and measured, and drive early warning for re-direction of resources with Business Partners.
- Provide accurate operational information and advice to support the annual budgeting, rolling forecast and Strategic Planning processes.
- Ensure integrity of data provided by commercial teams, and provides value added; provides recommendations on forecast accuracy improvement.
- Provide well managed and quality financial analysis in order to improve business case proposals and profitability tracking.
- Continually improve and streamline existing management reporting processes and support the definition and implementation of lean processes to meet the changing demands of the business.
- May supervise the performance and development of a small team of BPA specialists.
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field
- Professional certifications such as CFA, CMA, ACCA are a strong plus.
- Minimum 6+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders and drive decision making.
- Strong ability toinfluence key stakeholdersand drive decision‑making
Skills Desired
Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Compliance And Controls, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers