About this role
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:
• CA/MBA • Experience 5-8 years in FP&A
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 Critical Thinking, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Process Optimization