Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis (Commercialization)

Bristol-Myers Squibb India Pvt Ltd; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb India Pvt Ltd in Hyderabad is seeking a Manager I, Commercialization FP&A to oversee FP&A operations, budgeting, forecasting and governance across commercialization processes. The role emphasizes collaboration with process owners, stakeholders, and leadership to drive financial discipline and operational excellence.

The position requires 5–7 years in FP&A, with 50% in-person work at the Hyderabad location and travel minimal.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5-7 years of experience is required, preferably in an FP&A capacity.

Responsibilities

• FP&A activities
• Performs FP&A Management Reporting activities for regional and senior management consumption
• Builds budget, forecasting and projections for the markets
• Provides effective analyses to clearly highlight key trends / variances and rationale
• Prepares presentations for budget & projection reviews; updates forecast templates as needed
• Prepares analysis of monthly actual variances vs. budget / projection in alignment with standard framework and templates
• Executes special projects, ad-hoc analysis to ensure highly effective outcomes
• Process standardization and improvement
• Support Director, FP&A Operations, who is responsible for FP&A Operations processes and activities
• Support the development and execution of a global strategy for policies, processes, and technologies

Skills

FP&A

Budgeting

Forecasting

Management reporting

Process improvement

Data analysis

Job description

Manager I, Commercialization FP&A At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. At Bristol Myers Squibb, we’re creating innovative medicines for patients who are fighting serious diseases. We’re also nurturing our own team with inspiring work and challenging career options. No matter our role, each of us makes a contribution. And that makes all the difference.

The Manager I, FP&A Commercialization is responsible for the execution, governance and development of the Operations processes across BMS. Additionally, the Analyst III, FP&A Operations CIP must collaborate with process stakeholders, and peer process owners to ensure effective and efficient process operations, and identification and leverage of cross-process synergies. The successful candidate for this role will be someone who can bring best practices to the role and who is skilled at analysis, innovation and continuous improvement of processes.

Key Accountabilities

• Financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes
• Driving innovation and data-based improvement of key processes
• Creating an excellent internal and external customer experience
• Nurturing a culture of collaboration and high performance
• Accurately and candidly assess the performance of the areas they cover / impact
• Working closely with business and process leaders / owners to develop and communicate strategies, define improvement initiatives and analyze their needs and successes, and collect feedback / analytics to drive continuous improvement
• Creating a culture of financial discipline and operational excellence

A minimum of 5-7 years of experience is required, preferably in an FP&A capacity.

The position will be based in the BMS’s Hyderabad Location (expected 50% in-person) with minimal travel expected.

Key Responsibilities and Major Duties

• FP&A activities
• Performs FP&A Management Reporting activities for regional and senior management consumption
• Builds budget, forecasting and projections for the markets
• Provides effective analyses to clearly highlight key trends / variances and rationale
• Prepares presentations for budget & projection reviews; updates forecast templates as needed
• Prepares analysis of monthly actual variances vs. budget / projection in alignment with standard framework and templates
• Executes special projects, ad-hoc analysis to ensure highly effective outcomes
• Process standardization and improvement
• Support Director, FP&A Operations, who is responsible for FP&A Operations processes and activities
• Support the development and execution of a global strategy for policies, processes, and technologies
• Define and establishing consistent end to end process, KPIs and targets and intervene accordingly to drive results improvement
• Collaborate with data owners / stewards to align on process and data issues
• Propose management reporting forecasting improvement projects with a focus on delivering key business outcomes
• Develop the business case for process improvement decisions, and tracks actuals against the plan to validate execution and improve future plans
• Participate in process governance
• Identify, design and incorporate industry leading practices into standard operations within the Hyderabad Hub necessary to identify, and raise / resolve issues involving tradeoffs, especially around cost, quality, and customer service
• Maintain to a culture of continuous improvement at all levels of the organization and foster a business-oriented culture; continuously monitor the needs of the business
• Solicit feedback from internal customers, both operationally and regionally to determine the best response to continually improve process performance and year-over-year cost reductions
• Ensure and continually validate operating procedures are established and documented to support execution, and are maintained to align with process changes
• Ensure management reporting services are provided to the markets at competitive costs and leading service levels
• Relationship management and teaming
• Collaborate with Corporate FP&A to ensure adherence to corporate policies and procedures, and adjust processes to reflect changes required
• Build and maintain relationships at all levels throughout the organization, specifically with Hyderabad Hub and global Finance leadership
• Build an external network to ensure regular exposure to new and best practices, technologies, and process governance standards
• Hold self and others to timelines, quality, and accuracy
• Risk management Anticipate needs, assess and manage business risk taking; escape issues that may impact management reporting process globally; manage through times of crisis and ambiguity

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People with Disabilities

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