BPA Manager

Job Description Summary

As a BPA Manager, you'll support BPA activities and processes globally related to standard costing and its implications for both actuals and planning cycles. This role is pivotal in providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to our leadership team. You'll be at the forefront of financial strategy, ensuring accuracy and transparency while embracing innovative solutions to enhance our operations.

Job Description

About the Role:

As a BPA Manager, you'll support BPA activities and processes globally related to standard costing and its implications for both actuals and planning cycles. This role is pivotal in providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to our leadership team. You'll be at the forefront of financial strategy, ensuring accuracy and transparency while embracing innovative solutions to enhance our operations.

Location: Barcelona, Spain #LI-Hybrid

Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting the yearly TPC update process across the organisation, ensuring full transparency & reconciliation of changes implemented in standards and their implications to the P&L and balance sheet within defined responsibility (selected Platforms & areas)

• Supporting the TPC Lead in the preparation of TPC Committees, ensuring proper pre-reads & minutes are documented, with a broad understanding of business cases presented & recommendations, all according to the Novartis Accounting Manual & Product Costing Manual

• Following up on decisions taken, ensuring their implementation and adherence to company policies and procedures

• Proactively communicating and proposing decisions related to standard costing impacting P&L, proposing & running early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for financial results driven by internal or external factors

• Delivering core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information, leading the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for use in Global and Regional, country and Business Unit (BU) planning

• Conducting value-added analyses to support management decision-making processes

• Actively challenging existing processes and their improvement & adaptation to changes in the organisation, extending automation & digitalisation within the area of responsibilities, bringing added value to the organisation

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential for the role:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, or relevant finance certifications

• Proven expertise in financial management and product costing

• Strong project and process management skills

• Experience in developing and managing business cases

• Excellent communication and organisational skills

• Advanced analytical skills and proficiency in financial modelling

• Ability to partner effectively with business units

• Solution-driven and pragmatic approach

• Proficiency in managing large databases

• High learning agility and curiosity for new technologies

• Adaptability to changing environments

Desirable for the role:

• Experience in automation and digitalisation within financial processes

• Experience within a multinational organisation

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.

Accessibility and accommodation: 

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in any order to receive more detailed information about essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message. 

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