Finance Manager

As the AZ IndiaFP&AManager, you will support the AZ India

CountryFinanceBusiness Partner(CBP)/ Controllerin ensuring strategic alignment betweenSenior Managementand Commercial leadership and ultimately driving achievement of the agreed growth drivers andcountryFinancials.  

This role is a key local role, providing robust and insightful decision support toCFO, Controller FP&AandBusiness Unit Directorsto enable delivery of our financial objectives at both operational and strategic level.

The role will be responsible for delivering accurate and timely Reporting and Management of performance to deliver targets/objectives across theBusiness Units, owning the planning and forecasting process as well as support key finance projects impacting theCountry. This will involve liaising withabove marketsand ensuring Area performance is fully understood with mitigation/actions in place if required.

KeyAccountabilities:

Business partnering: 

• Contribute to ensure strategic and operational objectives of the business aredelivered.

• Supporting and providing clarity through financial/business analysis/benchmarks toLeadershipteamto facilitate the decision-makingprocess.

• Close collaboration withBusiness Unitsto understand key business drivers such as markets, competitors, share of voice ensuring knowledgedissemination.

• Future new launches support including business cases, business models, what if scenarios, projections, trend analysis and resourcing.

• Report on monthly sales estimates and actual sales toCountryleadership team, providing meaningful variance analysiscommentary.

• Lead and collaborate on key strategic projects and working with stakeholders on high priorityactivities.

• Develop plans, forecasts, and analyses for strategic initiatives and ad hoc projects, including new business divisions / markets / products analysis, strategic decision-making in day-to-day operations, and other growthinitiatives.

• Be agile and support ad hoc and key projects cross area as per business needs and priorities by the leadershipteam.

• Support Controller FP&A to facilitate monthly reviews with data analysis and follow through withBusiness Unitleader onactionitems for improving businessmetrics.

Business Planning Processes:

• Support Controller FP&A to deliver high quality PB (Phased Budget), RBU’s (Rolling Business Updates) and MTP (Mid Term Planning).

• EnsuringBusiness Unitsareorganizedto submit timely and in line with requirements.

• Allocating targets (sales / investment / profit) toBusiness Unitsbased on robust analysis / benchmarking.

• Ensuring high quality business planning reviews allowing confident decision making/review.

• Oversight of Inventory tracking.

• Collaboration withGFSandmarketbusinessteam.

• Drive standardization and harmonization across theBusiness Units.

• Provide regular expert supportto Business Units, and act as their conduit for project deliverables, and information.

• Drive the simplificationand automationagenda incountrywith the appropriate implementation of harmonized global processes.

Qualifications Required:

• 6-9years post CA/MBA Finance relevant experience in financial planning / business controlling.

• Strong academic background with good business acumen.

• Independently manages business stakeholders with minimum supervision.

• Ability to independently set, adapt and communicate priorities with multiple concurrent projects.

• Sound analytical skills with profound knowledge in MSTools(Excel, PowerPoint,PowerBI) &ERP (SAP knowledge preferable).

• Excellent communicator, able to build good working relationships with highly diverse internal stakeholders at Country & Regional level.

• Ability to develop Strategic Partnerships.

• Demonstrate AZ Valuesconsistently.

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy, childcare leave or sabbatical, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.