Senior Manager, Business Planning & Analysis Global R&D
Location: Mexico City
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As a Senior Manager, Business Planning & Analysis Global R&D supporting the R&D Finance Team, you will be responsible for providing strategic financial business partnering to Global R&D Clinical trials function. This position leads all the planning cycles (Annual target setting, latest estimates, QBRs, Strat Plan), month-end close processes, consolidation and reporting processes and financial presentations to senior management across a portfolio of clinical trials, ensuring strong cost visibility, disciplined execution, and decision ready insights for leadership
The ideal candidate brings deep FP&A experience supporting R&D or clinical trial environments within MedTech, Pharma, or Biotech, and can translate complex clinical activity into clear financial narratives.
In this role, a typical day will include:
- Act as the primary finance business partner to the R&D Clinical teams.
- Provide financial insights to support the portfolio decisions and prioritization.
- Participate in program and governance reviews, delivering key financial risks and opportunities.
- Consolidate inputs from cross‑functional partners and develop clear, consistent financial narratives for leadership.
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual planning processes for OpEx and CapEx, including forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting.
- Own development of planning templates, executive decks, insights, and financial consolidations.
- Partner closely with Clinical teams to ensure alignment between operational plans, timelines, and financial assumptions.
- Manage the annual OpEx budget by function, including headcount, personnel and non‑personnel costs, and CapEx for global R&D Clinical teams.
- Lead consolidation, reporting, and facilitation of monthly close meetings.
- Oversee accrual processes in coordination with Accounting and Clinical teams, ensuring accurate cost recognition in compliance with internal controls and financial policies.
- Identify and implement improvements to finance processes and ways of working driving standardization, efficiency, and enhanced transparency across planning, forecasting, and reporting processes.
- Provide coaching, performance management, career development, and resource planning for one direct report.
- Coordinate off‑cycle requests, one‑time analyses, and perform ad‑hoc financial analysis, modeling, and consolidations to support leadership decision‑making.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration, corporate finance, finance, economics, engineering or related; CPA, CMA or MBA preferred
- 8+ years of progressive FP&A experience, with direct support of clinical trials, R&D, or development organizations.
- Experience in MedTech, Biotech, Pharma, or CRO environments strongly preferred.
- Strong written and oral communication skills and fluent in spoken and written English
- Excellent analytical and communication skills (including the ability to synthesize, simplify, and convey story with clear and concise messages)
- Strategic thinking, with strong attention to detail
- Take ownership for the work and intelligently challenge the status quo
- Ability to understand the big picture (e.g., impacts across the business, regions, etc)
- Team player able to interact with all levels and interface effectively with global counterparts
- Strong proactivity, and quality
- Problem solving mindset, with a strong passion for driving a simplification agenda
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office (e.g., Excel and PowerPoint)
- Medium proficiency in Visualization and Data preparation software (e.g. Tableau, SAP, BI Analysis and Adaptive, Aspire)
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:
- Opportunity to join a growing, early-stage organization built within a mature, stable global company.
- Friendly working environment and a diverse and highly motivated team
- Individual career development plan and possible career growth within a newly created account
- Truly international environment and daily interactions with colleagues and stakeholders from all over the world
- Attractive benefits & compensation package
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