Dr Reddys - Engagement Lead - Digital & Process Excellence - Finance - IM/FMS/MDI/XLRI

Role: Engagement Manager, Digital & Process Excellence (DPE) - Finance

Location: Corporate Office, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Context

Pharma/Life Sciences industry is making rapid strides in leveraging Digital & Analytics in to the business operating models. We at Dr. Reddys are driven by our purpose to accelerate access to innovative and affordable medication to patients in over 25+ countries globally. We believe that Digital, Data and Design would drive the next wave of innovation along with science and technology for the industry. To that effect, we constantly review and refine our technology and organization design to maximize the opportunity from this changing operating landscape.

Our Finance function plays a crucial role in driving organizations strategic priorities towards growth and benchmark efficiency. Running across the organization, finance business processes enable the strategy with interventions in Pricing, Commercial Operations, Costing, Treasury and Finance operations including compliance and reporting. As Finance functions go through rapid make-over world over, we at Dr. Reddys aspire to lead this in India and in the Pharma industry. The role of DPE lead for Finance is to partner with the finance function to drive this transformation with technology.

What makes this assignment interesting?

Role that gives a broader view of Dr. Reddys business context

Opportunity to drive the functional transformation with technology as key lever

Operate in environment with good executive sponsorship in a reputed organization

Key Responsibilities

- Understand and drive the finance process transformation and continuous improvement

- Identify and deliver the initiatives with a strong technology and program management

- Partner with the functional leaders to identify opportunities to leverage digital and analytics to drive the next level transformation in the finance business processes

- Engage with partners effectively to bring in the best solution and delivery capabilities

- Be the single point of contact for the finance functions process & technology improvement initiatives

Operating Network

Internal: Finance leadership and respective teams, Digital & Process Excellence team

External: Vendors, implementation partners, knowledge networks in the industry

Key Skills and Experience -

- Broad business process consulting experience in the Finance domain across various process areas (Costing, Pricing, AP/AR and Treasury operations, Consolidation and reporting etc.)

- Experience in creating and delivering Digital & Technology-led solutions

- Implementation programs and change management experience with key technologies like SAP

- Experience in leveraging the new-age digital technologies and advanced analytics for business impact

- Educational Qualifications: MBA from top tier institute

- Experience Required: 8 to 10 years of experience in a reputed medium to large-scale consulting/industry organization

Key Personal Attributes

- Good communication skills, reasoning and analytical ability

- Must be collaborative in approach and a team player

- Very good at networking and influencing

- Willingness to learn new concepts, tools and techniques related to the subject

- Open to travel across locations in India and overseas locations

Mandatory Skills

- Costing, Pricing, AP/AR and Treasury operations, Consolidation.