Senior Manager Business Planning & Analysis

**Job Description Summary** About the role: To support the business within a country with complex analysis, reporting, forecasts etc. (typically very large to large revenue) and may coordinate a team of specialists. To act as a Business Partner for BPA within a country, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the management team.   **Job Description** **Key Requirements:** * Ensure the operational conversion of the BPA strategic goals within a dedicated area of the business -Provide management with accurate, relevant business analysis to support monthly operational reviews and ad-hoc requests, and ensure timely and accurate information gathering. * Perform analysis to evaluate risks or opportunities; make recommendations to mitigate these risks. * Manage and provide financial analysis and decision making support for a investment/project in a domain * Ensure ongoing business performance is appropriately monitored and measured, and drive early warning for re-direction of resources with Business Partners. * Provide accurate operational information and advice to support the annual budgeting, rolling forecast and Strategic Planning processes. * Ensure integrity of data provided by commercial teams, and provides value added; provides recommendations on forecast accuracy improvement. * Provide well managed and quality financial analysis in order to improve business case proposals and profitability tracking. * Continually improve and streamline existing management reporting processes and support the definition and implementation of lean processes to meet the changing demands of the business. * May supervise the performance and development of a small team of BPA specialists. * Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt * Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable) **Essential Requirements:** * CA/MBA * Experience 5-8 years in FP&A **Desirable Requirements:** * Internal customer satisfaction with quality, appropriateness, and timeliness of financial analyses provided * Reliability, timeliness and accuracy of budgetary and financial forecasts * Accuracy of early-warning system and results. * Managing risks and ops efficiently for the line of business   **Skills Desired** Critical Thinking, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Process Optimization