Sr. Manager - Business Planning & Analysis

IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Healthcare Private Limited in Hyderabad invites an experienced Infrastructure and End User Services (IES) Lead BPA to drive financial planning and forecasting for global infrastructure services. You will collaborate with IES Head BPA and service tower chiefs to enhance productivity and control.

Key responsibilities include budgeting, variance analysis, SOW approvals, risk/opportunity assessment, and streamlining processes with automated reporting.

Qualifications

• MBA or CA preferable; Minimum 9–12 years of finance experience including BPA and strategic planning.
• Strong financial controls and analytical skills; ability to derive insights from multiple data sources.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop budgets and financial forecasts for service towers.
• Provide data-driven financial analysis for monthly reviews.
• Support SOW approvals, rebooking and invoicing where applicable.
• Identify risks and opportunities; drive corrective actions.
• Suggest lean processes and automate reporting within BPA.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Data Visualization

Employee Engagement

Insight Generation

Managing Ambiguity

Market Understanding

Process Optimization

Education

MBA or CA

Job description

Job Description Summary

About the role: As an Infrastructure and End User Services (IES) Lead BPA, you will be responsible for the Business Planning & Analysis of global infrastructure services managed by IES. You will work closely with IES Head BPA and the IES Service Tower heads to drive productivity, accurate financial forecasting, strong financial controls and continuous process improvements. As part of the role, you should also drive change and innovation in day-to-day processes by providing streamlined and automated solutions where possible, to reach standardized, simple, and efficient processes across the IES Finance function.

Major accountabilities

Development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for respective service towers. Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data. Handle SOW approvals for the towers, rebooking, and ICSI invoicing if applicable 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 and recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas. 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.

Essential Requirements

MBA or CA preferable Minimum 9-12 years of relevant finance experience, including BPA, Strategic Planning and Business Operations Strong financial controlling skillset, functional know-how and excellent analytical skills - able to connect the dots from various source of information and generate financial insights from independent analysis

Desirable Requirements

Strong communication skills: able to articulate the key findings and recommendations clearly to senior management team Display high professionalism and can-do attitude in an executive fast paced setting Display high curiosity, with continuous learning / improvement approach

Skills Desired

Critical Thinking, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Process Optimization