Job Description Summary
About the role:
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 requirements:
- 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
- Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
Essential Requirements:
- MBA degree /Chartered Accountant with excellent academic record
- Have at least 5-8 years of related BPA experience and hands-on experience on SAP, BPC systems, Advance excel like Power Query, etc. – Must Have
- Experience in setting up Master Data, Org structures in system
- Expected to connect dots across tools, master data, financial impact, etc.,
- Project management experience
- Should be able to handle large data sets
- Proactiveness & accountability, E2E ownership are Must Haves – should be able to demonstrate with examples
- Ability to work in ambiguous phase & seek clarity wherever needed to get job done
Desirable Requirements:
- Internal customer satisfaction with quality, appropriateness, and timeliness of financial analyses provided
- Reliability, timeliness and accuracy of budgetary and financial forecasts
- Accuracy of early-warning system and results.
- Managing risks and ops efficiently for the line of business
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