Business Planning & Analysis Manager

Role Summary

The Novartis Corporate Finance team is seeking (2) new Business Planning & Analysis (BPA) Managers who supports the BPA Director of Capabilities in enabling Functions to execute strategy. You will meet financial commitments through proactive resource allocation, risk and opportunity management, cost-efficiency and trade-off analysis.

Responsibilities

• Performance Management - interacting with Functional and Product Finance teams to collaboratively plan for +$1.0bn in resources, support the Director BPA in managing performance and delivering annual financial targets.
• Resource Allocation excellence– Monitor spend categories and drive proactive analyses to optimize investments.
• Co-pilot planning cycles together with remote teams and consolidate cross functionally for specific cost categories.
• Risk & Opportunity Management – safeguard and improve overall financial performance through proactive and transparent communication of risks and opportunities.
• Drive process standardization and pioneer development of new tools for insight generation – simplify and automate processes and develop new tools to elevate insight generation to the business.
• Stakeholder management on cross functional topics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Finance or related field. MBA or advanced degree preferred
• 3+ years finance experience, preferably in Pharmaceuticals; FP&A experience preferred.
• High learning agility, strong analytical skills and attention to details.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
• Comfortable collaborating in a matrix organization.
• Excel/PowerPoint intermediate to advanced – Experience with planning tools desired.
• Relocation not included