Bpa Manager Smo

365 days a year, our global manufacturing and supply network operates to ensure our patients have the treatments they need to live longer, healthier lives. This is a great opportunity for a person with communicative skills, responsible, with initiative, proactive and with a great capacity for teamwork.
- As BPA Manager SMO you will lead Business Planning & Analysis (BPA) activities within a country (typically large revenue OR medium revenue) or Business Unit, a region or globally (depending on the division size), providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership.**Your responsibilities include, but not limited to**:

- 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 & 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.
- Provide leadership in preparing business cases, participating and value adding in key negotiations for mid size investments and programs/projects for the domain/sub domains

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

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

**Minimum requirements**

**Obligatory requirements**:

- Educational background: Finance, Business Administration, MBA (desirable)
- 5 years of experience as BPA / Business Planning & Analysis
- Project Management skills
- Analytical Thinking and Financial Modeling
- High level of SAP and Excel
- Financial Business Partnering
- Business case management
- Fluent English, other languages are a plus

**You’ll receive**:
Competitive salary, annual bonus, pension scheme, health insurance, flexible working arrangements, subsidized dining facilities, employee recognition scheme.**Why consider Novartis?**
769 million. That’s how many lives our products touched in 2020. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
- We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.**Imagine what you could do at Novartis**

**Division**
- Novartis Technical Operations

**Business Unit**
- NTO FINANCE

**Country**
- Spain

**Work Location**
- Barcelona Gran Vía

**Company/Legal Entity**
- Novartis Farmacéutica, S.A.

**Functional Area**
- Audit & Finance

**Job Type**
- Full Time

**Employment Type**
- Regular

**Shift Work**
- No

**Early Talent**
- No