Amgen India | Global Markets & Policy Finance Director

Responsibilities

• The Director will initially lead a team of approximately seven Finance professionals and will be responsible for building and developing a larger organization over time.
• The team will provide financial planning, forecasting, analysis, and decision support across revenue and commercial operating expenses, partnering closely with Global, Regional, and Local Finance teams.
• A key priority for this role will be building a high-performing, scalable Finance organization that strengthens planning capabilities, standardizes processes, improves analytical insights, and enables greater efficiency across GM&P Finance.
• The role will partner extensively with senior Finance and Commercial leaders across markets, regions, and global functions.
• The Director will be responsible for developing talent, establishing effective operating models and controls, and progressively expanding the scope and capabilities of the Amgen India Commercial Finance organization.
• Lead revenue and OpEx planning and forecasting activities in partnership with Global, Regional, and Local Finance teams, supporting short-term forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range planning.
• Establish standardized, scalable planning and analytical processes across commercial organizations while ensuring appropriate flexibility for differences across products, markets, and regions.
• Deliver high-quality financial analysis and business insights related to revenue performance, commercial investments, operating expenses, productivity, and resource allocation.
• Partner with Finance and Commercial leadership to identify opportunities to improve financial performance, optimize investments, and increase productivity.
• Build capabilities that leverage automation, advanced analytics, AI, and standardized data to improve forecast quality, reduce manual work, and accelerate financial insights and decision-making.
• Establish clear governance, controls, service expectations, and accountability across activities performed by the Amgen India team and its Finance partners globally.
• Support financial close, management reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, and other recurring Finance processes with a strong focus on accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and compliance.
• Lead cross-functional and cross-Finance initiatives to simplify and improve Finance processes, reduce duplication, and create greater consistency across GM&P.
• Provide a succinct business and financial perspective to senior leadership, translating complex financial information into clear insights and recommendations.

Requirements

• Chartered accountant, Cost Accountant, CPA or a Master’s degree in Economics, Finance or Business & Administration.
• Commercial Finance and/or Financial Planning & Analysis experience, including revenue and operating expense planning.
• Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or transforming Finance teams and capabilities, ideally within a global organization.
• Experience working across multiple markets, regions, business units, or global functions in a matrixed environment.
• Strong understanding of forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, financial reporting, and performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to standardize and simplify Finance processes while maintaining strong business partnership.
• Strong leadership and talent-development capabilities, including experience leading and developing high-performing Finance teams.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to effectively partner with senior Finance and business leaders globally.
• Experience leveraging technology, automation, analytics, and AI to improve Finance processes and decision support.

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)