Job Description Summary

About the role:
Novartis Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. (NHPL) is a subsidiary of the $47 billion healthcare giant Novartis AG, headquartered in Basel (Switzerland), incorporated as a company in 2001 with the vision to centralize and harmonize all similar processes from all the 140+ countries and region offices that Novartis AG operates in across all its divisions. Today, NHPL has close to 9000 employees consisting of Pharmacists, scientists, doctors, chemists, statisticians, marketers and top-drawer finance professionals working for in all functions ranging from research and development of drugs in multiple geographies to driving their commercialization all based out of Hyderabad.
The associate in this position will be part of the Pharma International BPA Hyderabad team managing Business Planning & Analysis (BPA) activities working with various countries in the Asia Pacific Middle East & Africa (APMA) region.

Job Description

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to

· To act as a Business Partner; providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the management team.

· Responsible for monthly closing activities with insightful analysis of Key KPIs and variances.

· Provide and gather accurate operational information in order to deliver target and latest forecast processes.

· Continuously improve and streamline existing management reporting processes through automated tools and establish organized and structured reporting system.

· Provide senior management relevant business analysis to support ad-hoc requests and ensure timely and accurate information gathering.

· Ensure ongoing business performance is appropriately monitored and measured and drive early warning for any inconsistency/ risk.

· An open minded professional having passion to understand the big picture and have enthusiasm to learn more

What you’ll bring to the role:

· Chartered Accountant / MBA

· 5-8 years financial and / or operational experience

· Good Team player

· Strong analysis and communication skills

· Successful finance business partnering experience

· Experience in Transformation Projects is preferred

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!

Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook.

https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Compliance And Controls, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers