Summary
About the Role
Key Requirements:
- General Administration: Lead the US BPA Functional Capabilities team in Hyderabad consisting of 5-7 associates
- Manage the relationship with US stakeholders / partner with the Functional Capabilities Director (in US East Hanover). Responsible for managing headcount and expenses (budget and actuals) for 3-5 functions
- Operations Management: Ensure operations of Functional Capabilities BPA team are seamless as per the timelines and quality assurance requirements
- Responsible for monthly closing activities, with insightful analysis of KPIs and variances. Responsible for planning activities, ensuring coordinated and timely submission in requisite financial systems (SAP, BPC) across the various planning cycles
- Establish consistent and standardized tracking and reporting across functions. Provide insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the US Functional LT of cost base for key priorities and capabilities
- Business Partnering: Proactively partner with US teams, both in Finance as well as within the business, esp. on leadership to drive strategic initiatives & achieve business performance
- Ensure ongoing business performance is appropriately monitored and drive early warning for any inconsistency / risk, providing solutions to US stakeholders. Challenge peers, teams, senior management, and partners to deliver greater impact
- People and Culture: Maintain an inclusive and development-centered psychologically safe environment that attracts, retains, and grows talent
- Hiring, developing, motivating, coaching and mentoring leading to low attrition and improved performance (continuous). Create a culture of curiosity, growth, and development
Essential Requirements:
- Ensuring delivery as per the defined timelines, scope and quality standards
- Managing multiple projects and priorities from internal (i.e., US Finance) and external (i.e., US functional business) stakeholders
- Able to work with minimum supervision and thrive under pressure. Develop talent to cater to strong and robust succession plan for critical roles
Desirable Requirements:
- MBA / CA / Life Sciences any other equivalent degree. Overall 12+ years of experience in finance analysis / BPA with at least 3-5 years of experience in managing small-to-medium sized teams (with direct and indirect reports)
- Good team player with experience of finance business partnering. Strong analysis and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally with mid to senior level management across the organization
Values and Behaviors:
- Inspired: To empower teams to be their best self every day and achieve their personal and professional goals
- Curious: Role model curiosity, encourage smart risk-taking and promotes opportunities for our people to learn
- Unbossed: Leaders who put their teams’ success above their own, set clear goals, remove obstacles, and trust their teams
Why Novartis:
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.india@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
