Head FP&A Germany (d/f/m)

Sandoz; Holzkirchen; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An established industry player is seeking a Head of FP&A in Germany to lead financial excellence across the organization. This pivotal role involves overseeing the P&L consolidation, driving digitalization in financial processes, and ensuring strategic alignment with corporate objectives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance financial visibility and support key business initiatives. With a commitment to personal growth, the company offers extensive learning opportunities and a supportive work environment, making this an exciting opportunity for finance professionals looking to make a significant impact.

Leistungen

30 days of annual leave

Holiday allowance

Company pension schemes

Parental leave

Bike leasing

Access to learning platforms like Coursera

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of accounting/financial experience with a focus on commercial environments.
• Experience in multi-location/multi-market environments is desirable.

Aufgaben

• Lead P&L consolidation for Germany, providing comprehensive financial views.
• Drive digitalization of FP&A processes using automation and analytics.

Kenntnisse

Analytical Skills

Strategic Thinking

Communication Skills

Financial Analysis

Leadership

Ausbildung

Cost Management Accountant

Chartered Accountant

MBA in Finance

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Data Analytics Platforms

Jobbeschreibung

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. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

As the Head of FP&A Germany, you will be responsible for driving financial excellence across the organization by leading planning cycles, consolidating the overall German P&L, and overseeing key financial areas such as inventory, cash management, and cross-business segment topics (e.g. portfolio review, complexity reductions). You will play a pivotal role in steering financial performance, driving digitalization, and ensuring strategic alignment with corporate objectives. In this role you will be closely working with the German (leadership) team as well as regional and global stakeholders.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Lead the overall P&L consolidation for Germany, providing a comprehensive financial view to support decision-making
• Provide strategic direction and executive oversight for inventory, cash management, and cross-business segment financial topics, ensuring their optimization and seamless integration into corporate strategies to drive financial excellence and long-term value creation
• Partner with cross-functional teams to enhance financial visibility, drive efficiency, and support key business initiatives
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, regulations, and internal controls, safeguarding financial integrity
• Lead the annual planning cycle and rolling forecasts, ensuring robust financial planning processes
• Consolidate and analyze financial performance across all business units, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities, and providing strategic recommendations to senior leadership
• Lead the digitalization of FP&A processes, leveraging automation, AI, and analytics to enhance efficiency and insights, ensuring scalability and consistency across the organization
• Build up and leverage our Sandoz service center to ensure efficient financial operations
• Drive global best practices in shared services and ensure seamless integration with the broader finance organization.
• Act as a key business partner to senior leadership, providing financial insights that drive strategic initiatives, and fostering strong relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Work closely with the dedicated Business Analysis team to support franchise-specific financial needs while focusing on broader FP&A responsibilities

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• Certification as Cost Management Accountant/Chartered Accountant/MBA Finance
• 10 years relevant accounting/financial experience, in-market commercial experience
• Experience in global functions desirable. Used to work in multi-location/multi-market environment
• Excellent analytical and strategic skills
• Experience with interfacing effectively with parent and global counterparts
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing; ability to clearly explain financial information to a variety of audiences
• Strong IT skills including excellent proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint, data analytics platform knowledge desirable
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

You’ll receive:

Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that’s why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

• 30 days of annual leave
• Holiday allowance
• Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)
• Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
• Parental leave
• Other offerings, such as bike leasing

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, 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 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 supported!

Join us!

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.