Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.
The Manager SAC Planning Operations is responsible for the operational readiness of the SAP SAC planning system that supports the key FP&A planning processes such as Target, Outlook and long term Strategic planning. The role requires a close collaboration with Finance teams at all levels of the business, a good understanding of enterprise planning processes and a focus on identifying improvements that will drive efficiency and enhance the planning process.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the end to end readiness of the SAC planning system to support key FP&A processes such as periodic forecasts, annual budget, strategic planning, and monthly reporting. Planning applications include P&L / NWC, Cost Center, FTE, and Capex planning.
- Drives process excellence, strengthens governance, and ensures the SAC planning system is set up to enable a high quality submission
- Implements best practices, documentation, and robust internal controls. This includes automated controls, validations, reconciliations, and back testing to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency.
- Ensures data consistency across models, integrity, completeness, and correctness of data sets (master and transactional data).
- Responsible for the data model preparation, including business logics, consolidation, data action-based calculation routines for KPIs.
- Responsible for UI/UX, including building, maintaining, and optimizing SAC stories (reports / input forms) driving productivity and simplification.
- Ensures the system preparation schedules are aligned with planning processes schedules and requirements and that key deliverables are met.
- Challenges the status quo and drives continuous improvement through standardization, harmonization, and automation.
- Identifies new process requirements, translates them into technical specifications, issues change requests, and oversees implementation. Supports release management and testing.
- Supports adoption of new technologies such as SAC Predictive Analytics (AI/ML), Smart Insights, NLP, Value Driver Trees.
Key Requirements:
- Masters degree in Finance and Accounting or Economics
- Fluent English knowledge both verbal and written
- Hands on previous experience with forecasting systems (preferably SAP AC, but we can consider similar experience with other tools like BCP, Anaplan, Cognos, etc.)
- Expert knowledge of Financial Planning & Analytics processe
Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.
People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.
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At Lonza, we enable A Healthier World by supporting our healthcare customers on the path to commercialization. Our community of 16,000 talented employees work across a global network of more than 30 sites to deliver for our customers across the pharma, biotech and nutrition markets.
