Job Description Summary
Owns and drives the end-to-end FP&A agenda in the market, including financial planning, closing and reporting, performance monitoring, and S&OP/integrated planning. Ensures high-quality, accurate, and timely financial insights to support decision-making, while maintaining compliance with global standards and continuously improving processes and systems. Leads and develops the FP&A team to strengthen business partnering, analytical capabilities, and performance culture.Job Description
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Own and drive the market financial planning process (LO, MYR, TGT, SP), ensuring forecast accuracy and alignment with global, regional, and cluster expectations.
- Lead performance consolidation and variance analysis in close collaboration with the CFO.
- Manage the monthly closing process and deliver high-quality financial reporting, dashboards, and management presentations.
- Monitor financial performance through KPIs, providing actionable insights and ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
- Lead the financial planning activities within the S&OP process, including Integrated Reconciliation and APO volume monetization at Gross and Net level.
- Ensure compliance with global FP&A standards and drive continuous process improvement initiatives.
- Leverage financial systems, reporting tools, and emerging technologies (including AI) to enhance analytical capabilities and decision-making.
- Lead, coach, and develop the FP&A team, fostering a strong performance, business partnering, and continuous learning culture.
- What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. - 3+ years of experience in FP&A, Controlling, Financial Planning, or related Finance roles.
- Fluent in Italian and English.
- Solid experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and performance analysis.
- Strong proficiency in Excel and Finance/ERP systems (SAP and BI tools are a plus).
- Experience supporting business decision-making and participating in S&OP/Integrated Planning processes.
- Proven people management and team development experience.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and business partnering skills.
Compensation Structure & Criteria:
Sandoz compensation is determined by job level, qualifications, niche skills, experience, and location within company salary ranges. Fully proficient and highly effective employees can expect a starting salary around market median, with those new to the level or with less functional depth at the lower end of the range and those with sustained superior or niche skills towards the higher end of the range. Internal equity and external market data inform our range placement. Annual salary reviews consider performance outcomes, market alignment, and business needs.
Why Sandoz?
Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people 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 careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.
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.
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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
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in FP&A, Controlling, Financial Planning, or related finance roles.
- Fluent in Italian and English.
- Solid experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and performance analysis.
- Strong proficiency in Excel.
- Experience with Finance/ERP systems (general).
- Experience supporting S&OP / Integrated Planning processes (including integrated reconciliation and volume monetization).
- Proven people management and team development experience.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and business partnering skills.
- Experience with SAP and BI tools.
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.
Sandoz Insights
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.
