Amgen India | Senior Associate - Global Distribution Finance

Primary responsibilities

• The role consolidates budget and forecast inputs, analyzes actual spending and key drivers, and prepares clear financial insights for Global Distribution hubs, Finance partners, and leadership.
• The role receives assignments in task- and objective-oriented terms and is expected to independently manage recurring analyses, reporting activities, and follow-up actions within established processes.
• The position does not have direct people-management responsibility but is expected to influence timely completion of financial inputs and corrective actions through effective partnership and communication.
• Coordinate the collection of annual budget, quarterly forecast, monthly outlook, and year-end estimate inputs from Global Distribution hubs and functional teams.
• Consolidate budget assumptions, spending forecasts, actuals, and supporting commentary into a complete Global Distribution financial view.
• Review monthly actual spending, accruals, and open commitments with Finance and budget owners to support accurate financial reporting and forecast updates.
• Perform variance, trend, and scenario analysis to explain changes in distribution and logistics spend, identify emerging risks, and highlight opportunities for action.
• Prepare recurring reports, dashboards, variance bridges, and executive summaries that translate complex financial data into clear business insights.
• Track productivity initiatives and savings projects, validate supporting assumptions, monitor performance against commitments, and escalate material variances.
• Manage purchase requisition and purchase order creation for logistics and distribution services.
• Validate budget availability and create purchase orders through Ariba and SAP procurement processes.
• Manage purchase order approvals by routing requests through the appropriate workflow and ensuring compliance with spending thresholds and established controls.
• Communicate approved purchase orders to suppliers and confirm supplier acknowledgement of the order and related commitment.
• Manage invoice and payment activities for logistics and distribution services by confirming that goods were received or services were performed before invoice approval.
• Review and approve invoices in accordance with established controls, resolve invoice mismatches with suppliers and internal stakeholders, and support timely accounts payable processing.
• Support assessment of project timelines, operational changes, and network initiatives to ensure financial implications are reflected in forecasts and planning submissions.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning tools, reporting processes, data quality, and automation; support implementation of approved improvements.
• Working Relationships and Scope

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field and 5 to 9 years of directly related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, operational finance, supply chain analytics, or a comparable analytical role.
• Advanced Excel and/or Smartsheet skills, including formulas, pivot tables, data modeling, and analysis of large datasets.
• Ability to consolidate information from multiple stakeholders, identify data inconsistencies, and deliver accurate outputs within planning-cycle deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain financial results to non-finance stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and maintain attention to detail in a global, cross-functional environment.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, or financial close processes in a supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, or operations environment.
• Experience with SAP or other financial and enterprise resource planning systems.
• Experience with Smartsheet, Power BI, Tableau, or comparable reporting and visualization tools.
• Experience tracking savings initiatives, productivity projects, or operational cost-reduction programs.
• Knowledge of project management concepts, including milestones, change control, and financial impact assessment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to turn data into practical recommendations.
• Working knowledge of financial governance, controls, and the relationship between operational drivers and financial results.
• Clear presentation and technical-writing skills for leadership reports, meeting materials, and financial commentary.
• Collaborative stakeholder-management skills and the ability to work effectively across regions and functions.
• Sound judgment, accountability, and a continuous-improvement mindset.

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.

• Industry: Biotechnology: discovery, development, manufacture and sale of medicines for bone health, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory diseases, cancer and rare diseases
• Headquarters: Thousand Oaks, California, United States (Amgen Inc., listed on Nasdaq as AMGN)
• In India: Amgen Technology Private Limited, a technology and innovation site in HITEC City, Hyderabad (announced in 2024)