Job Description Summary
Location: Barcelona, Spain #LI-Hybride
The role of the Senior BPA Manager focuses on preparation and consolidation of budget and actuals reporting for a 2.5bn P&L cost base of Tech & Functions. Robust financial analyses, constant process improvements, and close alignment with stakeholders are key enablers to be used during Budget, latest outlook and monthly business reviews. Major tasks are trend and deviation analysis, providing financial support to the Operations CFO and Head BPA as well as drive value creation by co-leading special projects. This role reports to the Head FP&A of Tech & Functions based in Barcelona.
Job Description
Your responsibilities will be but are not limited to:
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Preparation and consolidation of the 3 year financial plan for costs (2.5bn), FTE planning (4,000 FTEs), CAPEX (0.4bn) and Core adjustments (0.2bn)
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Consolidate and report monthly Latest Outlooks including evaluating risk and opportunities, proactively communicates and makes recommendations for mitigation
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Lead and support Long Term Strategic plan, working closely with TechOps Global FP&A team and Operations S&G Lead.
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Responsible for month-end/ year-end financial closing, deliver core management reporting and financial planning processes
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Conduct value added analyses, e.g. Resource Allocation, Benchmarking to recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas
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Drives the system supported boundary change process (ABC tool)
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Seamless execution of SMART planning initiatives within Operations, actively manage relationships with and between Corporate, TechOps Global team and sub-functions finance leads
Minimum requirements:
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7-10 years finance experience (budgeting, controlling and reporting) in multinational organization
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Excellent IT skills, particularly BPC, MS Excel, MS Power-Point. Alteryx and, Qlik modelling desirable
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To manage the key financial processes in a complex environment requires excellent communication and co-ordination abilities across cultures, geography and functions
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Trade-off analysis/ Risk and Opps Management
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2-3 years of relevant functional / indirect leadership experience a plus.
Benefits and rewards:
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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:
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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 Drivers
Top Skills
What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
