Amgen India
Amgen India | Senior Associate Finance
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Job Highlights
Roles & responsibilities
- This Sr. Associate serves as a finance partner, advancing financial and related cross functional planning excellence, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
- The role will strengthen forecasting accuracy, streamline reporting, and embed AI and technology-enabled solutions across finance and cross-functional teams.
- Ensures that day-to-day reporting and forecasting for responsible functions is handled properly and according to internal guidelines, accounting principles and applicable laws and ethical business practices.
- Execute planning-cycle activities for forecasts, actuals, budgets, long-range plans, quarterly business reviews, and leadership outlooks, including data collection, consolidation, reasonableness checks, and commentary preparation.
- Support monthly close process, completing management/project reports, variance analysis, and presenting results and recommendations to Senior Management.
- Prepare management reporting materials, including Power BI dashboards, weekly sales reporting, PowerPoint presentations, and components-of-growth reviews.
- Support budget coordination and expense-management activities, including purchase orders, SPOC and non-PO accruals, actuals tracking, and OPEX and T&E monitoring.
- Perform finance reviews of distributor claims, margins, free goods, royalties, profit-share arrangements, sales reconciliations, pricing set-up, contract-management activities, and related data validation.
- Identify and implement opportunities to standardize, automate, and continuously improve FP&A processes, templates, reporting tools, and data quality.
- Build trusted working relationships with global finance stakeholders; share knowledge and provide day-to-day support to colleagues as needed.
- Ensure assigned deliverables are completed accurately and on time, escalating issues promptly and communicating clearly with stakeholders.
- Gather and analyze business performance and prepare clear financial commentary on growth investment trade-offs, forecast risks and opportunities, and market trends.
- Perform ad-hoc analysis as needed
Requirements
- Chartered accountant, Cost Accountant, Certified public accountant or a Master’s degree in Economics, Finance or Business & Administration.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, G&A Finance, Technology Finance, Project Controls, or a related finance discipline.
- Experience collaborating effectively across functions and multiple time zones.
- Knowledge and understanding of financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, management reporting, consolidation, and quarter-close activities.
- Strong expertise in financial modeling, scenario planning, and advanced analytics.
- High digital fluency, including familiarity with AI tools, automation platforms (RPA), and large data concept.
- Experience with ERP/EPM/BI systems (e.g., SAPS4, Anaplan, Power BI, Tableau) and data-driven decision support.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate data into clear strategic insights.
- Strong project and change management skills in cross-functional, matrixed environments.
- Strong attention to detail & ability to operate with a sense of urgency.
- Experience working within a local affiliate in a global matrix organization.
- Strong understanding of commercial finance & analytics.
- Familiarity with affiliate budgeting cycles (Plan, Forecast, LRS, Scenarios) and regional reporting requirements.
- Experience partnering closely with Business Unit leads and General Managers.
- Exposure to launch planning, lifecycle management, or portfolio re-prioritization at affiliate level.
- Analytical, interpersonal, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain financial insights clearly to finance and business stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams.
- High degree of initiative, accountability, and self-motivation.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully and meet demanding deadlines.
About the company
Amgen Inc.
Amgen was founded in 1980 in Thousand Oaks, California, as Applied Molecular Genetics. Still based in Thousand Oaks, it is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, makes and sells medicines, including Prolia and Evenity for bone health, Repatha for high cholesterol, Enbrel and Otezla for inflammatory diseases, and Kyprolis and Blincyto for cancers. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol AMGN, and it became part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2020. The purchase of Horizon Therapeutics in 2023 added medicines for rare diseases. In 2024 Amgen announced a technology and innovation site in HITEC City, Hyderabad, set up first to build technology and digital tools for its global organisation and then to add work in AI, data science and other global functions. The Indian entity is Amgen Technology Private Limited.
Finance hiring in Hyderabad covers financial planning and analysis, technology project controls, accounts payable statements and reconciliations, transactional finance, global distribution finance and expense audit. A sizeable group of tax roles spans indirect tax compliance, international tax, US federal direct tax and tax reporting, and tax technology, while contracts and pricing associates work on Medicaid rebates and chargebacks. Roles run from associate to director, the most senior FP&A post asking for 18 or more years. FP&A and finance manager postings name a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, CPA or a master's degree in finance, economics or business administration, and the US tax roles look for a CA or US CPA.
