Amgen India | Sr Manager Finance

Roles & responsibilities

• Lead a team of FP&A staff based in Amgen India and serve as the primary point of contact between Amgen India FP&A and US / Global FP&A teams.
• Coordinate forecasting and reporting through Excel-based templates and consolidation files; prepare accurate, timely outputs for regional and global stakeholders.
• Manage planning and reporting systems activities across the forecasting cycle, including template preparation and alignment, Hyperion loading, and master-data maintenance.
• Develop and publish management reporting materials, including Power BI dashboards, weekly sales reporting, PowerPoint presentations, and components-of-growth reviews.
• Provide insightful financial analysis and commentary on business performance, growth drivers, investment trade-offs, forecast risks and opportunities, and market trends.
• Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement of FP&A processes, templates, and reporting tools in collaboration with US counterparts.
• Prepare financial reporting packages and monthly and quarterly reconciliations.
• Ensure the quality, completeness, and timeliness of assigned FP&A deliverables; identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and continuously improve processes and controls.
• Build trusted working relationships with finance, accounting, tax, treasury, controllership, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure team deliverables are completed accurately and on time, with clear, proactive communication to other global finance stakeholders.
• Lead planning-cycle activities for forecasts, actuals, budgets, long-range plans, quarterly business reviews, and leadership outlooks, including local data collection, consolidation, reasonableness checks, and commentary preparation.
• Escalate material risks, exceptions, and issues promptly to the Finance Director, and communicate clearly and proactively with relevant stakeholders.

Requirements

• Prioritize career development and mentoring of the Amgen India FP&A team under your purview.
• Chartered accountant, Cost Accountant, CPA or a Master’s degree in Economics, Finance or Business & Administration.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, G&A Finance, Technology Finance, Project Controls, or a related finance discipline.
• Experience managing teams and operating in a multiple time-zone environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, management reporting, consolidation, and quarter-close activities.
• Strong analytical skills; ability to be decisive, build teams, and provide leadership.
• Excellent discernment (e.g., knowledge of business drivers, finding solutions, and knowledge of accounting, finance, and other business areas).
• Big 4 and Fortune 500 FP&A experience.
• Initiative-taker with excellent analytical and presentation skills.
• Solid overall knowledge of financial systems and tools (e.g., SAP, Hyperion, Anaplan, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Tableau).
• Solid understanding of forecasting, long-range planning, budgeting, business partnering, and variance analysis.
• Proven ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations and team environment.
• Analytical, interpersonal, team building, leadership, and conflict resolution skills.
• Effective communication skills (both verbal and written), including the ability to interact with Amgen senior management effectively and confidentially.
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams.
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.

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)