Associate Director, FP&A

Job Description Summary

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!
The Associate Director, FP&A has a significant role as a key member of the Global Finance Team acting as a key interface to several stakeholders at Global and Region level. He / She is involved in leading processes and projects related to planning and reporting of financials including TGT setting and reporting of Sandoz financial results both internally and externally. A critical aspect of the role is to achieve high quality and sustainable results while making sure there is good alignment between planning and reporting, as well as stakeholders. Deliverables are presented to Sandoz Executive Committee members, Board of Directors and to external stakeholders and therefore require the highest quality and reliability.

Job Description

Major accountabilities: 

• Understands key requirements of the business and senior management and takes a lead in formulating analysis that can be commonly implemented across planning and reporting teams and helps synchronise all deliverables
• Drive collaboration and alignment between different teams across Finance, especially but not limited to Regions, Technical Operations, Global Development and CCO
• Executes guidelines and rules to develop and maintain a constructive, transparent and fair dialogue to share common targets with common understanding across Countries and Businesses and in close collaboration with the entire organization.
• Provides high quality and on-time financial information for decision support and control
• Manage the day-to-day operations of planning and management reporting, in a timely and accurate manner, meeting all business timelines and information/analytic needs
• Further develops Management Information Systems and enhancing Commercial, TechOps, Global Development and HQ functional information to support internal and external reporting
• Manage the data flows between relevant systems to support cross functional reporting capabilities
• Keeps continuous improvement and process changes up to date to have efficient and effective processes. Supports and monitors system change requests and enhancements in collaboration with IT

 Key performance indicators:

• Quality of data and analysis supplied to Global Head FP&A / Global Head Finance/ CFO / other key stakeholders
• High quality reporting with integrity
• Contribution towards Function targets and objectives
• Timeliness and completeness of core Finance processes
• Recognized for constantly driving lean and improved financial processes

 Minimum Requirements: 
  Work Experience:

• Minimum of 12 years working experience in performance management, financial reporting and analysis or financial planning and analysis roles in a multinational organization, both in regional and corporate roles
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Experience with SAP BW, SAP BPC is a must
• Experience in advanced excel and MS-Office applications is a must
• Experience of working in multicultural / international environment

 Skills:

• Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders
• Capital Allocation. Critical Thinking.
• Data Cleansing / Normalization. Data Visualization.
• Financial And Management Reporting.
• Insight Generation. Interpersonal Savvy.
• Managing Ambiguity. Process Optimization. Rapid Problem Solving. Understanding Value Drivers.
• Market Understanding. Planning & Analysis.

 Languages :

• English.

Why Sandoz?Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported! Join us!Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Financial And Management Reporting, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Pmi (Post-Merger Integration), Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value Drivers