Senior BPA (Sr. Financial Planning Analyst)

TR05 (FCRS = TR005) Sandoz İlaç Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş; Beykoz; On-site; TRY 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz İlaç Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş in Turkey is seeking a Senior BPA (Sr. Financial Planning Analyst) to join the Finance Team.

The role focuses on budgeting, forecasting, and driving profitability analyses with commercial partners and global finance colleagues. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in budget planning and finance analysis, fluent English, and strong communication skills to collaborate across departments and regions.

Qualifications

• BA degree required or related field with strong finance background.
• 5+ years of budget planning and finance analysis experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform and support yearly budgeting, monthly/quarterly estimates, and rolling forecasts.
• Lead monthly/quarterly sales forecasts and analyze drivers.
• Partner with commercial teams on short-midterm plans with P&L view.
• Identify business risks and opportunities across the organization.
• Carry out profitability analyses on products, teams and units.
• Support product costing process and cost variances analysis.
• Coordinate with Global Finance and lead reporting submissions.
• Assist month-end closing with Financial Reporting & Accounting teams.
• Design early warning systems and maintain financial tracking.

Skills

Budget planning

Finance analysis

Forecasting

Stakeholder communication

Team player

Education

BA degree in related fields

Job description

Job Description Summary

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. We are currently looking for a Senior BPA (Sr. Financial Planning Analyst) to join our Finance Team. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

About the job

Job Description Summary 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. We are currently looking for a Senior BPA (Sr. Financial Planning Analyst) to join our Finance Team. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

Your Key Responsibilities

• Perform and support yearly budgeting, monthly/quarterly latest estimates and rolling forecast in all internal and regional financial cycles
• Lead monthly/quarterly sales forecasts and perform detailed analysis in all sales drivers
• Business Partnering with commercial teams on short - midterm business plans with P&L perspective.
• Understand & challenge the business risks and opportunities in all layers.
• Proactively carryout value-added analyses on financial data, perform profitability analysis on products, teams, business units and report the results with brand P&Ls
• Support product costing process / COGs (systems runs, understanding the cost variances, run value added improvement projects)
• Acting as a point of contact with Global Finance Innovation teams and leading financial system submissions & reporting
• Support month-end closing activities by collaborating with stakeholders from Financial Reporting & Accounting team
• Perform financial compliance controls, ensuring the accuracy of financial transactions in the P&L areas are recorded and well explained
• Design and manage early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results

Requirements

• BA degree in related fields
• Fluent in English
• Min. 5 years of experience in budget planning and finance analysis
• Strong communication skills and being a team player
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• High Level of resilience

Preferred Qualifications

• Pharma industry experience is a plus

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more! With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art 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 and entrepreneurial spirit 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 encouraged! The future is ours to shape!

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.

Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, Building Effective Teams, Compliance And Controls, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Esg Data Management, Financial Accounting, Financial And Management Reporting, Market Understanding, People Development, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value Drivers

Our Purpose

Here at Sandoz is pioneering access for patients. As the global leader in 'off-patent' high quality medicines, we are able to make medicine more affordable and accessible. Our broad global portfolio comprises of approximately 1,300 quality biosimilar and generic medicines, enabling us to provide more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries per year, and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more! Powered by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for dedication and skills, experience a flexible, collaborative & inclusive culture where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is nurtured!