The Role
Lead country financial planning and reporting, implement regional/global BPA processes, deliver budgets and forecasts, design early-warning financial tracking, perform value-added analyses (sales, costs, cash flow, capital), support leadership with risk/opportunity and cost control analyses, and manage a team of finance professionals.
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Job Description Summary
Sandoz is a global leader in affordable medicines, supporting our purpose of providing pioneering access to our patients. In the future, we hope to make an even bigger difference for those who need accessible, sustainable, and high-quality healthcare. To support this purpose, the Financial Planning Manager's role is to lead the team's activities and the country's needs, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership. Be part of this proposal!Job Description
Major accountabilities:
- Manage the execution of regional / global strategies for own part of the organization and the correct and timely implementation of BPA processes and policies and ensure adherence thereof.
- Deliver core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information.
- Lead the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts planning.
- Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results.
- Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data: Sales trends, Functional Expenses, Other Income and Expenses, Impairment review, Management Cash Flow, Capital Investments, life time costs for projects.
- Support the organization’s leadership team with financial analysis (including Risks and Opportunities analysis), cost analysis and control and drive corrective actions.
- Conduct value added analyses, e.g. Resource Allocation, Profitability analyses, Benchmarking to recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas.
- Manage and ensure the development of a team of experienced professionals.
Requirements:
- Complete Higher Education. Postgraduate studies will be a plus
- Fluent English. Spanish will be a plus
- Solid experience with financial planning and experience in the industry
- Experience with managing people and internal and external stakeholders
- Strong skills and solid knowledge of Excel, metrics, and SAP will be a plus
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 DriversSkills Required
- Complete Higher Education
- Postgraduate studies
- Fluent English
- Spanish
- Solid experience with financial planning and industry experience
- Experience managing people and internal/external stakeholders
- Strong skills and solid knowledge of Excel, metrics, and SAP
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
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The Company
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
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