Manager - International CoE

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.

Job Description

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

Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, advance excel, AI Driven, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, excel, Financial And Management Reporting, Financial Data, Financial Databases, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Pmi (Post-Merger Integration), Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value Drivers