About the role

Lead yearly budgeting, forecasting, and detailed sales driver analysis while partnering with commercial teams on business plans. Manage product costing, financial compliance controls, and collaborate with accounting teams for month-end closing.

What they look for

Budget Planning Financial Analysis Business Partnering Profitability Analysis Product Costing Financial Compliance Stakeholder Influence Data Visualization Process Optimization Financial Reporting Critical Thinking Problem Solving Market Understanding Planning & Analysis Data Cleansing Employee Engagement

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in a related field and at least 5 years of experience in budget planning and financial analysis. Must be fluent in English with strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

Flexible-hybrid Careers Personal Growth Opportunities

Full description

Job Description Summary

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally.

We are currently looking for a Senior BPA (Sr. Financial Planning Analyst) to join our Finance Team. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

Job Description

About the job

Job Description

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally.

We are currently looking for a Senior BPA (Sr. Financial Planning Analyst) to join our Finance Team. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

Your Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Perform and support yearly budgeting, monthly/quarterly latest estimates and rolling forecast in all internal and regional financial cycles
Lead monthly/quarterly sales forecasts and perform detailed analysis in all sales drivers
Business Partnering with commercial teams on short - midterm business plans with P&L perspective. Understand & challenge the business risks and opportunities in all layers.
Proactively carryout value-added analyses on financial data, perform profitability analysis on products, teams, business units and report the results with brand P&Ls
Support product costing process / COGs (systems runs, understanding the cost variances, run value added improvement projects)
Acting as a point of contact with Global Finance Innovation teams and leading financial system submissions & reporting
Support month-end closing activities by collaborating with stakeholders from Financial Reporting & Accounting team
Perform financial compliance controls, ensuring the accuracy of financial transactions in the P&L areas are recorded and well explained
Design and manage early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results

Min Requirements:

BA degree in related fields
Fluent in English
Min. 5 years of experience in budget planning and finance analysis
Strong communication skills and being a team player
Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
High Level of resilience

Preferred Qualifications

Pharma industry experience is a plus

Why Sandoz? Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more! With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably. Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!

The future is ours to shape!

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. Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability. The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, Building Effective Teams, Compliance And Controls, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Esg Data Management, Financial Accounting, Financial And Management Reporting, Market Understanding, People Development, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value Drivers