Senior BPA Manager

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Job Description Summary

Lead all BPA activities within a country or cluster, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership.

Job Description

Major Accountabilities:

Manage the execution of regional / global strategies for own part of the organization and the correct and timely implementation of BPA processes and policies and ensure adherence thereof
Deliver core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information
Lead the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for use in Global and Regional, country, Business Franchise (BF), and Business Unit (BU) planning
Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results
Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data: Sales trends, Functional Expenses, Other Income and Expenses, Impairment review, Management Cash Flow, Capital Investments, life time costs for projects, NPV etc.
Support the organization’s leadership team with financial analysis (including Risks and Opportunities analysis), cost analysis and control and drive corrective actions
Conduct value added analyses, e.g. Resource Allocation, Profitability analyses, Benchmarking to recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas
Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt

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Skills Desired

Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Visualization, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Process Optimization

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