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Senior Manager REFS Finance

Novartis

Novartis

Accounting & Finance
India
Posted on Thursday, August 29, 2024
REQ-10020256
Aug 28, 2024
India

Summary

About the role:
Business Planning & Analysis (BPA) Finance support for the global Real Estate and Facility Services (REFS) domain. Specifically for the financial support for Capital Planning and Projects. Includes support for the CAR preparation, business case for CAPEX/OPEX requests, analyze project feasibility, NPV/IRR analysis of projects. Drives various financial analysis around the Lease transactions including sale and leaseback, support planning and budgeting (Budget, outlook, risk & ops etc.) and analysis of results for REFS in close collaboration with the Head BPA REFS.

About the Role

Key Requirements:

  • Business Partnering: Partners effectively on different dimensions (local, global, within Novartis Operations and external)
  • Ensures business partners understand the financial processes and follow internal guidelines/SOPs. Drives cost transparency and ensure good understanding of key cost drivers
  • Evaluate and support key initiatives by thoroughly understanding the business. Propose and work in/lead projects to provide due cost transparency. Generates various ad hoc / regular financial analysis to support business / decisions
  • Planning & Reporting- Prepare business cases, Capital Appropriation Request for various CAPEX projects, Lease of office/laboratories including sale and leaseback, collaborate with FRA for various Lease Accounting matters, prepare annual budget for CAPEX and support monthly risk & ops
  • Support the review of the business cases and respond to the various queries to senior management. Partner with Novartis Operations Regional Finance Leads and country BPAs to build stretch financial objectives
  • Support FRA on various accounting matters including lease accounting, capillarization and impairment of assets. Deploy, in collaboration with Global BPA a robust planning process for REFS
  • Responsible for business presentations (e.g. Budget) required by Novartis Operations / REFS. Challenge and investigate results with the objective of identifying gaps recommending gap closing actions when necessary
  • Reporting and Controls- Leverage and further enhance central reporting tools to provide management reporting. Ensure quality and timely month end closing (e.g. accruals). Track and monitor projects and their financials, closure of CARs, capitalization of assets

Essential Requirements:

  • Identifies cost savings and productivity initiatives
  • Supports the offshoring/outsourcing strategy and works closely with sourcing function to maximise productivity. Automate and streamline reporting, CAR process
  • Ensure overall compliance and correct application of Management Authorization Limits (MAL)
  • Ensures good accounting and practices in line with Novartis Accounting Manual (NAM)
  • Applies standard accounting concepts and techniques

Desirable Requirements:

  • 8-12 years of experience
  • CA

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Benefits and rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve

Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Finance
CTS
India
Hyderabad (Office)
IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited
Audit & Finance
Full time
Regular
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 send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

REQ-10020256

Senior Manager REFS Finance

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