Sr Assoc Finance

Amgen Inc. (IR); Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen Inc. (IR) seeks an Operations Finance Senior Associate to support the finance team with planning, analysis, and business partnering.

The role requires strong corporate finance knowledge, budgeting, and performance management to drive financial discipline across operational activities. You will collaborate with Operations, Finance, and cross-functional teams to deliver insightful analyses, maintain forecasts, and contribute to process improvements and standard reporting.

Qualifications

• Proficient in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls.
• Ability to partner with Operations and cross-functional teams for insights.
• Experience in variance analysis and management presentations.

Responsibilities

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for Operations Finance.
• Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports with variance commentary.
• Partner with Operations to understand drivers, costs, risks, and opportunities.
• Support expense management, headcount tracking, and capital planning.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Management reporting

Business partnering

Communication

Tools

SAP

S4 Hana

Hyperion

Anaplan

Excel

Smartsheet

ChatGPT

Codex

Job description

Career Category Finance Job Description

The Operations Finance Senior Associate will play a key role in supporting Amgen’s Operations Finance team through financial planning, analysis, reporting, and business partnering. This role requires strong knowledge of corporate finance, accounting principles, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and operational performance management. The individual will partner with Operations, Finance, and cross-functional business teams to provide financial insights, support decision-making, manage forecasts and budgets, and help ensure financial discipline across operational activities. This role will also contribute to process improvements, standard reporting, and the development of clear financial analyses that support business priorities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning activities for Operations Finance.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports, including variance analysis, trend analysis, and commentary on business performance.
• Partner with Operations stakeholders to understand key business drivers, cost trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support expense management, cost center analysis, headcount tracking, capital planning, and other operational finance activities.
• Analyze actual results versus budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying key variances and providing actionable insights.
• Assist in the preparation of management presentations, financial summaries, and business review materials.
• Support month-end and quarter-end close activities, including accruals, journal entry review, account reconciliations, and financial validation.
• Help maintain financial discipline by ensuring compliance with accounting policies, internal controls, and corporate finance requirements.
• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, and other business partners to support operational decision-making.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting consistency, and forecast accuracy.
• Support ad hoc financial analysis, scenario modeling, and business case development for operational initiatives.
• Use financial systems and reporting tools, such as SAP, S4 Hana, Hyperion, Anaplan, Excel, Smartsheet, ChatGPT, Codex and other standard finance platforms, to gather data and support analysis.
• Communicate financial results, risks, and opportunities clearly to finance leaders and business partners.

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen