About this role
Job title: Function BPA & Project Lead
Summary
- Lead all BPA activities within a country, unit, or function, a region or globally (depending on the division size), providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership.
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Manage the execution of regional/global strategies for own part of the organization and the correct and timely implementation of BPA processes and policies and ensure adherence thereof.
- Deliver core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information.
- Lead the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for use in Global and Regional, country, Business Franchise (BF), and Business Unit (BU) planning.
- Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results.
- Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data: Sales trends, Functional Expenses, Other Income and Expenses, Impairment review, Management Cash Flow, Capital Investments, life time costs for projects, NPV etc
- 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, e.g. Resource Allocation, Profitability analyses, Benchmarking to recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas.
- Manage and ensure the development of a team of experienced BPA professionals.
- Derive strategic initiatives from financial and business insights; lead LDC project as BPA SPOC and planning/reporting transformation.
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt
- Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
Key performance indicators:
- Accuracy of actuals, plans, availability of analysis in time and of required quality
- Achievement of Budget targets, quarterly financial forecast accuracy, Specific Franchises output KPIs,
- Customer satisfaction
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Division
Finance
Business Unit
Finance
Location
China
Site
Shanghai (Shanghai)
Company / Legal Entity
CN06 (FCRS = CN006) Beijing Novartis Pharma Co., Ltd
Functional Area
Audit & Finance
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No
Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact the recruitment team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Audit & Finance
Finance
China
Job ID
REQ-10088295
Function BPA & Project Lead