Our Client is a global biopharmaceutical company. It operates in many countries worldwide and employs approximately 50000 people. It is publicly traded and is a component of the S&P 500 and S&P 100 indices.

The companys mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that improve patient outcomes and address unmet medical needs. portfolio includes treatments in key therapeutic areas such as immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, and virology. Some of its blockbuster products include Humira, Skyrizi, and Rinvoq, which treat autoimmune and inflammatory conditions.

Industry: Pharmaceuticals ( Full time)

Position: Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Qualification: CA

Experience: 4-6 Years

Salary: Upto 29 LPA

Location: Sampangi Rama Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Working Days: 5 Days (Hybrid)

Job Profile:

Forecasting, Budgeting, Strategy planning:

- Responsible for preparation of financial plans (LRP, PLN, LBE, ACT, Quarterly projections), submission in Global planning systems (BPC, SAP) and Actuals Variance analysis vs Plan/forecast.

- Lead the financial planning & reporting processes including design of templates & processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.

- Timely address of queries from various stakeholders

- Analyze performance (tracking revenue & expenses regularly) and provide variance explanations and recommendations for operational efficiency and provide business counseling to relevant stakeholders, with the objective of adding value to the business.

- Understand, communicate, and explain variance within the business. Identify root causes and follow up actions for each.

- Advise business teams on process-related matters that arise.

- Act as primary liaison with line of Asia consolidations teamto ensure accuracy and timeliness of information

Business Partnering:

- Partner with India commercial leadership with supervision of Head Commercial Finance to drive commercial / financial objectives by leading affiliate or country-specific projects.

- Create P&L statements and other reportson financial performance for executive management to review.

- Preparation of monthly business review deck in collaboration with functional stakeholders

- Leading finance on S&OP discussions for benchmark analysis & demand assumptions working with Supply Chain and commercial team.

Ad-hoc Projects, Process Improvement and Expense Efficiency

- To take leadership or to provide support towards any business or finance projects as they arise.

- To drive excellence in FP&A outputs

- To identify and drive continuous process improvement, particularly around financial planning.

- To identify and drive continuous process standardization and simplification to improve efficiency.

QUALIFICATIONS (MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS):

- The requirements described in this section are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Education and Experience

- A minimum of 4-6 years progressive working experience, 2 years should be relevant FP&A experience in a pharmaceutical Industry.

- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a range of culturally and functionally diverse people.

- Computer literacy

- Experience in using SAP S4 HANA

- Experience in system planning tools such as BPC/TM1 etc

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools

Language literacy

- English (Oral and written)

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies(includes Licenses, Credentials)

- Effectively manage the engagement and collaboration of the team to achieve a common goal

- Strong commercial analytical skill, strategy thinking, financial analysis and finance modelling skill

- Agile: could react quickly to requests in a short deadline and able to deliver with limited information or resources

- Process improvements & simplification

- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively influence people

- Previous FP&A roles in pharmaceutical manufacturing strongly preferred.

- Previous Cost Accounting experience preferred.

- Qualified CA