FBP Vaccines & partnerships

Job title: FBP Vaccines & partnership

• Location : Mumbai

About the job 

Finance Business Partner (FBP) – A team qualified and experienced professionals mandated to work with business teams as enabler / partner in achieving organisational goals. Team works with business and other related stakeholders for all finance related aspects (decision making, evaluation and analysis, forecasting and variance analysis with actuals) and provide a consistent and credible information flow to local and global management.

 Key responsibilities - Plan and drive the annual budgeting process, continuously monitor / analyse actuals against budgets and take actions for course corrections to meet Budget

 Provide meaningful insights and analysis to the senior leadership team to enable timely and appropriate decision making. Also highlight opportunities for Gross Margin, profitability improvement and better resource allocation to deliver desired financial targets.

 Works with various stakeholders contributing to strategies implementation

Main responsibilities:

(A)- Responsible for the India Vaccines & partnership business:

• Responsible for ensuring that the business objectives are delivered in terms of Sales & profit. This is to be achieved by adjusting Opex as needed depending on business performance, continuous review of business structures to drive efficiencies, continuous focus on gross margin initiatives through price, Gross to Net Management and COGS initiatives.
• Develop comprehensive forward-looking analysis that identify future risks and opportunities, creating actionable strategies to achieve business targets
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• New Product Introductions/Line Extensions, review Business Cases & support in approval process
• Responsible for Internal Controls applicable to the job

(B)- Financial Planning:

• Ensures the consistency of macro-economic hypothesis in the planning / budgeting / forecasting processes.
• Is responsible for the performance (beyond budget tracking) to identify risks and opportunities to dynamically re-allocate resources
• Lead the IBP process of business from finance perspective along-with Supply Chain; IBP is the most important initiative to achieve end to end synergies/connect in budgeting, forecasting, production planning and market supply chain

• Aligns business strategies and forecasts with IA / Supply Chain and ensures consistency of information and data.
• Challenges business hypothesis and ensures that forecasts are realistic from a finance point of view.
• Leads the Budget and Forecast processes using AI and in close cooperation with HQ and local Heads of departments

(C)- Strategy, Transformation and Execution:

• Deliver strategic financial counsel to support management decisions
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to the CFO & MCO leadership team, Lead to steer business objectives, focusing on growth and transformation.
• Aims at maximizing growth and profitability of growth assets as well as cash generation.

(D)- Listed Entity Governance Support/Analysis:

Work with the CFO on stakeholder engagement i.e Investor/Analyst Calls/Meetings; Preparation for General Assembly, Board Presentations on Strategy and Key Business Topics

About you

List here ideally the must-haves criteria to be successful on the role. Don’t forget: the less criteria you will request, the more diverse candidates you will get in the pool.

·       Experience: 5+ years of experience, knowledge of industry and business   

·       Soft skills: Influencing, Problem Solving, People and Stakeholder Management, change management, problem solving, collaborative and consensus making approach 

·       Technical skills: Decision making, Business/Market intelligence, Financial modelling, Analytics, MIS, Microsoft office, SAP, BOOST etc      

·       Education: Professional degree / Master’s degree

·       Languages: Fluency in English 

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